All About Carnivals

For our Patreon patrons, we just sent out the monthly reward:  All About Carnivals.  Please check to see that you received it.  If not, please let us know and we’ll fix it.

For those of you who aren’t patrons yet, what is it that you’re missing?  Well, a couple of things went wrong with this month’s edition.  Like?  Well, it ran a little long.  Our target is 40 pages for the GM’s edition.  This one ran 74 pages plus the cover.  Only our patrons-only double sized edition has been longer.

Why is it that long?  Well it contains:  21 well described circuses, carnivals, and other shows; 30 quickly described circuses, carnivals, and other shows; 153 attractions, including freaks, animal acts, circus performances, rides, games, contests, and more side show weirdness than any book has the right to contain!  That’s just “one article”.  The rest of the book has prices at a carnival, GM (and player too) advice, setting ideas, and over a dozen missions and encounter sparks to get you brain fully into the idea of how carnivals can add to your game world.

In case you’re missing what we mean by “carnival”, please understand that within those well described carnivals are:  a side show/menagerie combination, a full circus, a weird “hard-R” side show, a puppet show, a religious revival, an opera company, a trade show, a patriotic festival, and a whole ton more.

So what’s the point?  Have you as a GM or world builder thought through how circuses, carnivals and other traveling shows work in your world?  Probably not.  As world builders, most of us have enough trouble filling in all the permanent parts of the landscape - we don’t have time to worry about the temporary parts.  So here, we did it for you.  Not just did it, but then laced the entire 74 pages with ideas you can use to expand what we have here if that particular item works for you and your world.  Not every idea works for every person, so this is definitely a pick and choose thing, but there are more sparks of creativity to pick from than you can imagine.

What’s wrong?  Well, honestly, the artwork.  Do you know how tough it is to find historic artwork about circuses?  So, yeah, as per usual, not the most stunning piece of art.  Then again, that shows just how much content is in this thing!


The World Walker verison of All About Carnivals can now be downloaded for free at:

https://www.rpgnow.com/product/250178/Nitis-Parade--Other-Entertainments-aka-All-About-Carnivals-and-Faires