Circus

By jondifool2, in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

I am New on the forum! could find this idea when searching , so forgive me if it's already here somewhere

I am planning on running a circus campaign in Warhammer 3 edition , with the players connected to a small circus, as artist, jugglers , acrobats, strong man, magicans or whatever character they may fit in! The goal is that the group should want their cirkus be succesfull.

a circus could give alot of NPC options , flavor and storyline, help and support, background for PC's easy acsess to trainers and information. And an obligation and a group goal as well.

i like to ask what roleplaying sources anyone have run into that that do involve a circus? If anyone have thought on or worked with such an approach for 3ED, pls tell about your findabouts aswell.

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NB. And as you could imagine i would just love to see you from FFG come with an Circus campaing box.

with tools to run a circus from small to big! as both a PC operation , or a NPC sidestory

With a circus main story campaign (eksample where a group choose or is forced (by some terrible curse) to perform and succeed as circus artist/helpers while working on lifting the curse, while investigating the whole circus very diverse bunch of NPC and revealing one secret after another)

with iconic circus charackters, to use as PC's or background

with stats for animals like Lion , tiger, bear, monkey , and maybe even some monsters

and maybe special skills like linedancing, fire blowing, juggling and maybe some more animal handling skills. As well as some social skills and talents specific for performers

and some performing oriented group sheets.

and a few small events to pull out, like "wild animals are loose , pls resque the animals before they harm someone!"

the circus might be a little too cheerful of an idea, but making a carnival campaign could be fun. the 2nd ed wfrp companion has a few pages full of good ideas on what belongs in a carnival. TEW's "Shadows Over Bogenhafen" has the schaffenfest that you can take ideas from if you can find a copy of it.

I did a circus campaign in 1st edition D&D back in the 80's, I pretty much just made it all up on the go, with some pre-made NPC characters playing the parts of things such as the StrongMan, Fortune Teller, etc.

The idea in the campaign was that the adventurers discover that every town the circus visits, several people come up missing, so they decide to join the circus and get to the bottom of it.

The adventure was quite fun, and very easy to just make up on the go. If you find any good resources on the web, please let us know!

D.

I ran a Carrnivale campaign for one year. Our gaming blog can be found HERE.

Good blog Doc_Cthulhu.

The carnival adventure or campain is a good idea and could be really fun. I remember playing "Shadows Over Bogenhaffen" - that was one of the funniest and suprising adventures for my players. And it had halflings as main characters. :)

Nice blog Doc! Thanks for sharing.