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ZeronHitaro 06-19-06, 05:15 PM	I was browsing of the PrCs board last night as was inspired by a few core classes there to make a session where the PCs are in town that's having a festival. Unknown to them, this is a (for lack of a better word) "Dark Circus", who's intent is to bring death and chaos, not joy and laughter. So far I have the following NPC Villians: (FYI, a * next to a class means it's something I found here on the boards and not in any book) (2nd FYI, the reason most of these have levels in Bard is to meet the PrC requesites) Evil Maniacal Clown- An NPC with levels in Bard and the PrC Dark Clown* Trick Magican- An NPC with levels in Bard, Rogue, and the PrC Magican* Deceptive Beauty- An NPC with levels in Witch* and the PrC Paragon of Beauty* (with the extra skill Perform "Song" added) Death Mime- An NPC with levels in Rogue and the PrC Mime* I would like to know if anyone has any more dark circus based things to share that I could integrate into this, what I'm mostly looking for it: Dark Circus Monsters (Highest priority now on aberrations that would fit into a dark circus theme) Dark Circus Traps (mostly things to slow down and trap the PCs rather than kill them outright) Dark Circus Classes & PrCs (I'd like at least 1 epic progression Core Class or 2 more PrCs that have a Circus feel to them) Any help is greatly appreciated. :D
ZeronHitaro 06-20-06, 12:40 PM	^^; 25 views and neigh a responce? Where's the creativity at? XD Although I must give Kudos to KingGolem for making two fitting golems on the Monster board. (The Bigtop Golem and Flaming Hoops Golem)
TrothgardtheMad 06-20-06, 03:27 PM	I am reminded of a book, which I don't have on hand at the moment, but to get you thinking in a circus type direction: A Ringmaster A Flameeater/breather Trapeeze Performers Food Vendors Will try to get on later tonight and give you some stuff from that book to use as a basis... Trothgard the Mad
ZeronHitaro 06-20-06, 04:23 PM	Thanks much. ^_^ Even the general description gave me ideas..>.> Such as hot dogs made from unpurified troll meat. :D
TrothgardtheMad 06-20-06, 09:57 PM	Cool. I was thinking of exotic foods such as that, cotton candy (made from spiders), candied apples with ectoplasmic coating, and some questionable meats. Ringmaster could have all levels of exotic, other-planely beasts. The trapeeze performers could be excelent contortionists and have levels of the Thief-Acrobat PrC. A fortuneteller might provide some interesting foreshadowing. A freak show... and the freakier the better, bearded lady not so freaky, a treant with human head fruits downright scary/freaky... A snake lady A strong man Games of chance. As for traps, you got to have a mirror and glass house (distorted mirrors works too, but it definitely becomes interesting if they are perfectly clean mirrors) for a chase scene. The book that has an adventure seed is Creative Campaigning from the AD&D2e blue book series (DMGR5) "Carnival of the Bizarre", pgs 51-59. The Carnival is all based on the Ringmaster having a chaos crystal. But it seems you got some ideas but you needed a good brain nudge to get more ideas out. Hope all of this helps you out... Trothgard the Mad
Darkxarth 06-20-06, 10:13 PM	...hey. Wait a minute!! I've seen this before!!! I posted on this in the Campaign Workshop forum! Oh well, this is still a cool idea.
greyhaze 06-20-06, 11:29 PM	Bearded Devil Lady Juggler Sword Swallower Knife Thrower and Wheel of Death Firing a Clown out of Catapult Flying Monkeys Bears, Elephants and Lions of Doom Snake Charmer Siamese Twins (miniaturized ettin...) Marionettes (slay mates) Magician Ghost in Mirror Tight Rope Walker (spider lady)
ZeronHitaro 06-21-06, 12:27 AM	Great ideas thus far. :D And the one I have here is more for idea gathering Dark, the one on the other board is of a presentation of a rough draft.
TrothgardtheMad 06-21-06, 09:47 AM	Oh, after I logged last night, thought of a good one, if you use the mirror house idea. A delayed mirror of opposition, if they still have those. The mirror creates a doppleganger of whomever's image is reflected in it, albeit an hour after the fact, opposite in alignment, so neutral characters get away as a perfect replicate, but your goodie two-shoes pally has an interesting chaotic evil nemesis. This could lead to a string of adventures that might be during your denoument or even as a lingering evil after the whole circus thing has been absolved. I had entertained using a circus/travelling fair idea for an adventure seed. Never got around to it, but most of the stuff I mentioned before were some of my brain droppings from that area of my world. After a few years, I never even put that area back into my campaign world. In fact, I've been reworking one of my continents, trying to create a believeable history and lush environment to immerse a group of players in, and entertained putting an old haunted carnival or travelling performing troupe back into my game. Trothgard the Mad
ZeronHitaro 06-21-06, 10:54 AM	Hmm, that idea would be pretty cool. ^_^ Another idea I had for a house of mirrors incident was to create a type of abberation that made it's home in a mirror. (As unknown to most creatures, mirror's have their own demiplane inside) Might do a 50/50 split of save the doppleganger mirrors for round 2.