GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Encounters 3: The Carnival of Madness

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Anders

Adventure seed: The carnival needs more freaks! So they hire "comprachicos" (child-buyers).

Alternate, more introspective plot line: the carnival is making its own freaks.

[Kromm]

You have good memories! This carnival is a little different – it's more about mixed blessings than curses, and the focus is less on items than on activities.

Yep, it's a joke. It'll make sense to those who've read the supplement. ;)

Oh, I think you could make the Carnival a lot more evil than it is. Really, it's less "evil" than "disturbing" right now, but if you want to change that, just add more clowns.

[Gold & Appel Inc]

Originally Posted by Kromm

Oh, I think you could make the Carnival a lot more evil than it is. Really, it's less "evil" than "disturbing" right now, but if you want to change that, just add more clowns.

"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight." --Lon Cheney, Jr.

[Gold & Appel Inc]

Originally Posted by johndallman

Alternate, more introspective plot line: the carnival is making its own freaks.

A member of Denver GURPS proposed a Dark Carnival game years ago that sadly never got off the ground, and my proposed PC was loosely based on Electra and Iphigenia from Geek Love. They were in sync enough that it was almost entirely advantageous, with four arms, four legs, 360-Degree Vision, Extra Attack x1, Extra Head x1, Compartmentalized Mind x1, and the strength of two preteen girls, contributing to the show mainly as singers and piano players.

[SolemnGolem]

Nice cheeky adventure location!

This brought back memories of a Ravenloft product, Carnival, which was also one of the best-written products of that 2nd Ed. D&D line.

[scc]

Originally Posted by Refplace

Its a joke, Through me off the first few times I saw them but I caught on quickly enough. I dont think it was hilarious but it was cute and didn't make reading hard so unless its a problem with Ctrl + Find Im good.

It could be, looking it up it's a different Unicode character, so unless whatever you're using to read/search is smart enough to know to treat it as a normal t, which is doubtful, it'll cause problems.

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by scc

It could be, looking it up it's a different Unicode character, so unless whatever you're using to read/search is smart enough to know to treat it as a normal t, which is doubtful, it'll cause problems.

Yeah but how often are you going to have to search for the word "Token"? In a long book it might get annoying trying to remember where, though you could just copy/paste into your search. But in this supplement I found it fun enough once I got the joke. Also when I first read it the phrase jumped out at me so it was easy to remember the concept.

[The Colonel]

I always rather liked the idea of the Jack of Tears and his carnival from Sword & Sorcery's Shattered Lands, but the implementation of it it, especially in "that RPG" was disappointing.
And earlier versions of Warhammer had the followers of Nurgle - the god of plagues - travelling in a circus caravan.

Oh carne vale ...

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Refplace

Yeah but how often are you going to have to search for the word "Token"?

Probably never, although for readers looking for a reminder, there's the Contents entry on p. 2, pointing to the box where Ŧokens are defined (and the simple expedient of searching for "okens," which turns up every instance and nothing else). Otherwise, it's no better or worse than $, and the occasional use of "dollar$" and "ca$h" as a joke in many other GURPS supplements. This is a supplement where a sense of humor is required . . .

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by SolemnGolem

Nice cheeky adventure location!

Thank you! It was fun to write.