The Adventuring Circus
Posted on August 8, 2010 at 2:28 AM
And suddenly, I’m desperately feeling the urge to run a D&D campaign where the PCs are all performers in a small traveling circus (acrobats = rogues, strongmen = fighters or barbarians, animal tamer = druid or beastmaster ranger, magician = wizard, etc.), who make a habit of not only entertaining the people in the villages they pass through, but also eliminating their monster troubles.
This could be the exhaustion talking…
I did something like that once, only the circus was a cover for an assassin’s guild. And the part decided to go off away from anywhere I had pointed and stage political assassinations in all the countries on my map, framing others in order to start a world war.
Exhaustion . . . or pure amazing covered in a heaving helping of awesome sauce. Seriously, this is a great idea. It’s almost like the A-Team TV series–each episode the crew deals with a different problem in a different locale.
The old Ravenloft Carnival supplement might be worth checking out, for a point of reference if nothing else: http://www.amazon.com/Carnival-AD-Ravenloft-John-Mangrum/dp/0786913827
I never did run the campaign, but I got a kick out of the background material.