Ulrick
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TV and movies are a sources of plots and inspiration for DMs everywhere, but what about songs and videos? What plots, scenes, and ideas do you rip from them and use in your games?
What songs and music videos inspire you?
A couple examples of my include:
1. The video "Du Riechst So Gut" by Rammstein.
The beginning starts with a maiden dropping a kerchief in the woods. A man walks over and picks it up who later turns out to be a strange werewolf thing who stalks the maiden and returns her shawl--with a bunch of other freaky stuff happening along the way.
I ran an entire session with ideas from that video. At the start, the group's rogue picks up her shawl while the rest just leave him...
to face the werewolf who wonders what the rogue is doing with his beloved's shawl.
2. The song "Sonne" by Rammstein (notice a pattern here?
I listened to the lyrics while reading through an adventure in Dungeon about a woman giving birth to an "anti-christ" like child of Tharizdun. I imagined all the evil worshippers of the temple chanting this song as the woman lay upon the altar in labor.
Ein!
Hier kommt die Sonne
Zwei!
Hier kommt die Sonne
Drei
Sie der Hellste Stern von allen
Vier!
Hier kommt die Sonne!
Unfortunately, the players went in a different direction and failed to stop the dark birth from happening...
Which is too bad, I was looking forward to describing the scene as a "Christian Faith Revival Gathering, where everybody jumps, sings, and dances in the Lord's name---except its evil!"
Ulrick
What songs and music videos inspire you?
A couple examples of my include:
1. The video "Du Riechst So Gut" by Rammstein.
The beginning starts with a maiden dropping a kerchief in the woods. A man walks over and picks it up who later turns out to be a strange werewolf thing who stalks the maiden and returns her shawl--with a bunch of other freaky stuff happening along the way.
I ran an entire session with ideas from that video. At the start, the group's rogue picks up her shawl while the rest just leave him...
to face the werewolf who wonders what the rogue is doing with his beloved's shawl.
2. The song "Sonne" by Rammstein (notice a pattern here?
I listened to the lyrics while reading through an adventure in Dungeon about a woman giving birth to an "anti-christ" like child of Tharizdun. I imagined all the evil worshippers of the temple chanting this song as the woman lay upon the altar in labor.
Ein!
Hier kommt die Sonne
Zwei!
Hier kommt die Sonne
Drei
Sie der Hellste Stern von allen
Vier!
Hier kommt die Sonne!
Unfortunately, the players went in a different direction and failed to stop the dark birth from happening...
Which is too bad, I was looking forward to describing the scene as a "Christian Faith Revival Gathering, where everybody jumps, sings, and dances in the Lord's name---except its evil!"
Ulrick
