Visual Note from the Past

Der Stephansplatz in Wien bei Regen, Paul Kaspar, 1928.

This is, of course, more than 100 years after the Congress of Vienna – but St. Stephen’s Cathedral is timeless, and the rainy atmosphere felt like the right way to begin this small visual research series.

#ArtHistory #Vienna #BoardGames #GameDesign

Small Congress scandal: at the opening ball of the Congress of Vienna, rumour had it that a quarter of the 10,000 silver teaspoons bearing the imperial crest quietly disappeared into the crowd.

I would treat this more as a perfect Congress anecdote than a precise inventory report — but honestly, that makes it even better.
Diplomacy, spectacle, gossip… and apparently a few unofficial souvenirs.

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I’m running a small historical game here: suggest European countries, I roll a magic die 🎲, then prepare a deep dive into a real person connected to that country and the Congress of Vienna.

And now there comes Andorra. It was selected.

It was not exactly overflowing with obvious diplomatic celebrities in XIX.

If the die chooses it, I may have to bend history, geography, and some mountains backwards.

I promised I would try.
But I am slightly worried. 😅

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Everybody, please stop naming European countries. I beg you. The magic die list is finally complete 🎲
Number 6 is Romania — specifically Transylvania 🧛‍♂️

Tomorrow the die decides which country gets the next deep dive into a real person connected to the Congress of Vienna.

Final list:
1 — Andorra
2 — Finland
3 — Austria
4 — Serbia
5 — Greece
6 — Romania / Transylvania

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One thing I learned from more experienced board game designers that I really wish I knew sooner:

You can — and probably should — work on multiple games at the same time. Apparently most designers do. 😅
Sometimes the best way to fix a mechanic is to stop staring at it for two weeks and work on something completely different.

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Can you name one European country?

It is not a trick....

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Most recent change in gossip mechanics: this time you don’t always control gossip directly.
It moves whenever you engage in public social actions. You don’t have to do it publicly, though — you can use the post office and send a letter, but only if you prepared one earlier.
And if you feel particularly cunning, you can still spread your own rumours. Because Vienna, obviously.

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How likely is it that my low number of followers here is caused by not posting as many Fyodor pictures as I do on Threads?

Oh, you haven’t heard about Fyodor?

He is my cat. Very much into board games. Especially into messing with board game components I foolishly leave in my study.

And don’t even get me started on cat fur.