Carnival Row

Started by SV52, 01 September 2019, 02:53:21 PM

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Raider4

It's got Eva Green in it.

petercooman

Carnival row done, was great!

FierceKitty

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SV52

Quote from: Leman on 03 September 2019, 10:15:07 PM
Never heard of it, please expand.

Penny Dreadful is Victorian Gothic and is a mash up of Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Frankenstein with a leavening of supernatural devilry.

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FierceKitty

And owing a great deal to Victorian cityscape paintings by Atkinson Grimshaw.
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O Dinas Powys

Just heard on one of the Podcasts I listen to that there is an official, FREE, Carnival Row RPG.  Written by the Carnival Row creator, Travis Beacham, it uses the "Cypher System by Monte Cook Games and the Cypher System Rulebook is required to play".

https://www.enworld.org/threads/free-carnival-row-rpg-from-nerdist-monte-cook-games.667255/
https://nerdist.com/article/carnival-row-rpg-download-free/

Direct link to the rules: https://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Carnival-Row-RPG.pdf

I've not seen the show yet, so only skimmed through the PDF to avoid potential spoilers, but it's very pretty with atmospheric art and a map of the world. 

Apart from some character generation stuff and the sample characters at the end it seems mostly rules-free background information of the world and the city of Burgue.

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The Baron

Am I wrong to look at the new sculpts, yet to be released, for Russo Japanese war and think.....hmmmmmmm... :-\  Burgue and Pact for Carnival Row?  ;D
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Steve J

I must admit it has piqued my imagination as to some future projects based upon the whole look of both sides, which would be pretty easy to do from existing ranges. Once FWCII is released, I might revisit this...

Big Insect

I'm part-way through series 2 - shame the plot is almost the same as series 1, surely they could have come up with something s little more inventive, however I am also liking the Steam-Punk Victoriana approach.
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The Baron

Quote from: Big Insect on 07 March 2023, 10:28:45 AMI'm part-way through series 2 - shame the plot is almost the same as series 1, surely they could have come up with something s little more inventive, however I am also liking the Steam-Punk Victoriana approach.
They were pretty hamstrung for the production by infighting and then filming was impacted by Covid restrictions. The original intention was for the series to run for a long time so I think they had to wrap it all up pretty quickly :(
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Steve J

I think Amazon chose not to do any more series, so everything has had to be 'rushed' to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion (hopefully). Shadow & Bone on Netflix is in a similar vein, but with magic rather than fey creatures.

Big Insect

Just finished episode 6 series 2 ... there must be another series planned. I will say no more.
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Steve J

There are four more episodes to come Mark IIRC. I think we are to watch episode 6 tonight, if we haven't already done so :-\ .

The Baron

Quote from: Big Insect on 07 March 2023, 05:38:15 PMJust finished episode 6 series 2 ... there must be another series planned. I will say no more.
I'm afraid it is 2 seasons and done, I was gutted when it was announced :(
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QuoteAm I wrong to look at the new sculpts, yet to be released, for Russo Japanese war and think.....hmmmmmmm... :-\  Burgue and Pact for Carnival Row?  ;D
It's been a while since I've seen it - didn't finish the first series - but the Burque are surely just WW1 British in cap and greatcoat?