History TabletopGame / FlyingCircus

* BellyScrapingFlight: Typically, [[RealityEnsues flying at Altitude 0 is a bad idea]], since the plane hits the ground if it goes any lower and pulling up from this altitude counts as an attempt to Evade Danger. However, the Dogfighter Mastery move Belly Scrape makes near-ground flight less dangerous.

** A player's pilot can attempt to work on a damaged engine in-flight through the Patch Fix move, which often requires succeeding on the Windwalk move to traverse the plane.

* CriticalHit: Moves that involve a Critical Hit often have an equivalent penalty on a natural 1.

** CriticalHit: Inversely, these same moves have an equivalent penalty on a natural 1.

* OurKoboldsAreDifferent: The kobolds of Himmilgard draws influence from their traditional Germanic folklore origins, rather than the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' version. Himmilgard's kobolds are one of [[TheFairFolk the Fae]], and they are a cohort of the faeries' landed nobility, along with being messengers and servants. They're described as having the form of a small animal, and the rulebook's artwork depicts a kobold as a seemingly normal-looking rabbit.

* GlobalCurrency: PlayedWith. In the fiction, each town has their own form of currency, which is abstracted away as "scrip." Meanwhile, trading companies handle larger costs through gold coins called "taler." So narratively, currency is a mishmash of local scrip and global taler, but the former especially gets abstracted on a mechanical level to reduce the complexity of reconciling one town's form of money with their neighbor's town's completely different form of money.

* ApocalypseHow: At least a Class 0, if not a Class 1. The uncrossable oceans on both sides of Himmilgard prevents its inhabitants from knowing what’s beyond them, so nobody knows what happened to the rest of the world, and the rulebook does not give any indication of whether anything even exists beyond the oceans. If the War’s fallout managed to cross the oceans and ravaged those lands, that would make the end of the world a Class 1, Planetary Scale, Societal Disruption. Otherwise, it’s only a Class 0 Apocalypse, Regional Scale, Societal Disruption. What prevents the apocalypse from tipping into Societal Collapse is that societies have held on in the form of small towns and advanced technology remains in the world, even without the unification of nation-states nor industrial scale.

''Flying Circus'' is a fantasy aviation tabletop RPG game by Erika Chappell. It draws inspiration from the work of Creator/{{Hayao Miyazaki}} and is UsefulNotes/{{Powered by the Apocalypse}}.

''Flying Circus'' was funded through [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/310174564/flying-circus-a-roleplaying-game-of-high-flying-ad a Kickstarter campaign]] that ran from March to April 2018, raising more than CA$ 37,000. The game was released digitally in April 2020 and can be bought at [[https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/310013/Flying-Circus--Core-Rulebook DriveThruRPG]] and [[https://opensketch.itch.io/flying-circus itch.io]].

* MidairRepair: With the Blackthumb feature, a Threat's Ace pilot can repair their plane's broken part, even if it involves wingwalking to reach it.

* RolePlayingEndgame: Player Characters who don't prematurely die can exist the game in two ways. They can take on a Destiny after fulfilling exceptional requirements, such as becoming a Nature Spirit after saving the Wild from destruction and becoming a part of it. A pilot can also opt for Retirement by spending a maximum of 15 thaler, a cost reduced by several factors, like overcoming an Addiction or adjusting to the world after losing a comrade.

In this game, players roleplay as pilots of a Flying Circus, a group of mercenaries using salvaged aircraft to complete missions. These Flying Circuses roam the land of Himmilgard, a continent recovering from a magical war of apocalyptic scale. Mechanically, ''Flying Circus'' deploys a specialized ruleset for simulating air combat, while interplaying it with other game modes that cover everything from inter-group social dynamics to blowing off steam in a small town.

''Flying Circus'' was released digitally April 2020. It can be bought at [[https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/310013/Flying-Circus--Core-Rulebook DriveThruRPG]] and [[https://opensketch.itch.io/flying-circus itch.io]].

** A Threat pilot that is an Ace can have the special feature Killer, which allows the Ace to kill an NPC on the player's side without a chance to intervene.

* Experience Meter: By default, the track for Mastery Advancement is five Mastery Progress, while other Moves and advancements can reduce the track's size. Meanwhile, the regular XP progression is a pool of points that acclimate and that the player can spend from variably.

* Science Fantasy: ''Flying Circus'' features many of the technological marvels common in the SteamPunk genre and its cousins, especially with the planes, while mixing it in with HighFantasy magic and beings.

* NonLethalKO: As brutal as the game's consequences can be, a Player Character cannot die unless their player agrees. In even the deadliest of situations, a Player Character can end up passing out. However, allied [=NPCs=] [[FinalDeath do not receive this luxury]].

* OneHitKill: A Threat pilot that is an Ace can have the special feature Killer, which allows the Ace to kill an NPC on the player's side without a chance to intervene.

* MidairCollision: The game has rules to cover the situation when two planes collide. As the player's aid remarks: "it's bad."

In this game, players roleplay as pilots of a Flying Circus, a group of mercharies using salvaged aircraft to complete missions. These Flying Circuses roam the land of Himmilgard, a continent recovering from a magical war of apocalyptic scale. Mechanically, ''Flying Circus'' deploys a specialized ruleset for simulating air combat, while interplaying it with other game modes that cover everything from inter-group social dynamics to blowing off steam in a small town.

* UrbanRuins: Most of Himmilgard's surviving inhabitants live outside of the cities, which are still decimated from the war and are filled with supernatural poison gas.