Flying Circus - Core Rulebook & Playbooks

I'm just here to say I love this game and everything about it. It really works with my style of GMing, and I'm a fan of early aviation history. Building airplanes and engines in the online builder tools has been my obsession lately. Right now, I'm putting together some early diesels.

Erika, please keep the good stuff coming!

I'm super excited to try my hand at GMing this game! I got a printed copy made for my birthday, and am slowly making my way through it. I also modified the awesome player book to make a staple-free booklet for my players! I'm happy to share the file and assembly instructions if that's cool with the creators.

Alright, testing testing.

Apparently posting video review here can cause a spike on the algorithm, so I'm just gonna post my one year old Flying Circus review here and see what's going to happen.

Was waiting off to leave a review until i had a chance to actually run the game. While it is super fun to just theory craft, especially with the amazing plane builder tool, it really doesn't compare to actually getting into it. The game itself is a little intimidating at first because of all the moves, but they are pretty separated, you're never really dealing with all of them at once. After you get over that initial hurdle, the game runs so smoothly. The play cycle is cut up perfectly, i've legitimately never played a game that felt as perfectly paced as Flying Circus.
As a GM it's so easy to get into the crunchier mechanics of the game, you really only need to add as many layers of crunch as you are comfortable running, and you can always add more as you get a hang of the mechanics.
10/10 Would watch in horror as all my players attach wingblades to their planes again.

This game is simply amazing. I love everything about it. From the modifications it has made to the PBtA engine, to the amazing plane combat mechanics, to its politics to its queerness. Oh and the art. Wow. The art. So yeah. Just phenomenal. 

Is it intentional that the Ground Moves are absent from the Playbooks document? It seems a little odd, since it has a reference for all the other player facing moves?

Also, is there a Discord for discussion or anything like that? :)

hey is the 1.21 that is on DTRPG on here too?

It's a little more complex and containing additionally fiddly bits than other PBtA-type games, So printing out some of the summary or reference sheets to keep handy is *very* helpful. But I loved the air combat? It really felt more....appropriate.

Within a single mission, my Fischervolk pilot made contact with the spirits of dead Gothan soldiers and found herself tasked with the job of returning their remains back to their families.....regardless of the fact that Gothans might not take well to some random fishlady showing up with a body bag. Oh well!!

And our shy Survivor ended up demanding, 'fuck you, pay us' to our patron and we found ourselves trying to collect the money we were owed...at bayonet-point.

Now we have to figure out how to recoup costs! By....finding a buyer....for the highly dangerous (and possibly self-willed???) clockwerk soldiers. You know. Those weapons of war that fucked up our homes. Yeah. Let's give *THOSE* to somebody because we need the money.

I'd love to play it again.....and I....kinda...wanna.....try hacking it to do sci-fi games like Cowboy Bebop and ragtag bands of space truckers+revolutionaries.

My single regret is that I cannot YET purchase a physical copy. Or give this 6 stars.

This book is frankly brilliant, and I haven't seen a group jump to play something from just the pitch as quickly as they have for this. If I have one criticism, it's that the book takes a lot of time telling you what the fluff is, or what the subtext for a playbook is. RPG's are about finding what resonates with you in what's there, but I doubt Erika is going to break down my door when I use the Witch playbook for a Zen Monk or what have you.

I'm so glad this is doing well, Erika! Highly recc this game to everyone if they like planes!