Campaigns inspired by songs

[innerdude]

Particle Man or Fingertips by They Might Be Giants.

Undone by Wheezer

For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

Not a full campaign, but I was using song titles as inspiration for villain names in a Mutants and Masterminds campaign. Lightning Hopkins, Stormy Monday, Orange Crush, Locomotive Breath, One Angry Dwarf, ..

Don't forget Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner. I'd absolutely play him in a campaign

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Steve Miller’s “Take the money & run” would be a good basis for an adventure where the party “posse” is doing some bounty hunting.

Let's be honest, every game I played in jr high

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Particle Man or Fingertips by They Might Be Giants.

Undone by Wheezer

For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield

Interesting! - tell us more about these

Particle Man - (thanks for the earworm btw) - always makes me think of Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen

 

[innerdude]

Interesting! - tell us more about these

Particle Man - (thanks for the earworm btw) - always makes me think of Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen

So Particle Man really needs no introduction . . . He's just doing the things a particle can. Totally a villain or superhero, probably in a post apocalypse nuclear wasteland.

I love the idea for Undone --- "If you want to destroy my sweater . . . Watch me unravel", I think it would be a hilarious take on a lich .... With a sweater .... And the sweater is his/her artifact of power.



For What It's Worth --
"There's somthing happening here
But what it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

It's time we stop
Hey
What's that sound
Everybody look what's going down"

"Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the men come and take you away"

I mean, isn't that like the greatest setup to a Call of Cthulhu campaign you've ever heard?

 

[aco175]

A little CDB (Charlie Daniel's Band) "Devil Went Down to Georgia", well it was Devil Went Down to Daggerford that eventually led to Dragonspear Castle to see if they could save the soul.

We started a short-lived campaign involving lost soldiers whose campaign met defeat and now they were lost behind enemy lines. The theme was Ozzy's "Mama I'm Coming Home".

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

Not a full campaign, but I was using song titles as inspiration for villain names in a Mutants and Masterminds campaign. Lightning Hopkins, Stormy Monday, Orange Crush, Locomotive Breath, One Angry Dwarf, ..

It certainly works for the JoJo anime and manga.

Locomotive Breath

I'm still disappointed in Sentinels of the Multiverse for going with "Fright Train" instead of that one for their steam-engine-themed villain who's constantly making railroad puns.

 

[Lanefan]

Various music-inspired elements to adventures and characters I've run/seen:

Stairway to Heaven: party has to find, then climb an invisible staircase to a mansion in the clouds.
Highway to Hel: party goes into the Norse land of the dead (run by the goddess Hel) to, in theory, haul out a soul that got stuck there.
Ghosts of the Heceta Head: straight from the song; party has to rescue one ghost from the unwelcome attacks of a bunch of other ghosts, at a lighthouse.
Eye of the Demon: I got a 4-adventure arc from the two lines "Break the silence of the storm, find the key to the seven winds".

A player in my game has a character based entirely on the Pink Floyd song "Careful With That Axe, Eugene".

Many of our characters have appropriate theme songs, ranging everywhere from classical ("Flight of the Valkyries") to movie numbers ("You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two") to 60's pop ("Do You Believe in Magic") to then-contemporary rock ("Learn How to Live" [Billy Squier]) to roaring metal ("Drink" [Alestorm]).

One song that really cries out to be done as an adventure that I haven't done yet: Dio's Sacred Heart.

Some links:

 

[Clint_L]

Tone-wise, I think Springsteen's Nebraska could inspire a cool Fiasco...campaign? Has anyone tried to do a Fiasco campaign? Same for the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack.

Pick almost any 80s alternative tune for a Monster Hearts campaign. I'll go with "Shadowplay."

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Tone-wise, I think Springsteen's Nebraska could inspire a cool Fiasco...campaign? Has anyone tried to do a Fiasco campaign? Same for the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack.

absolutely, Fiasco is meant to evoke Coen Bros movies sensibilities, so an O Brother WAT soundtrack inspiring a Fiasco game would be right spot on