Adventure Ideas from Songs

[Wraith Form]

I suspected Bauhaus (it sounded familiar) but I used Google to verify. I'm all about verification.

Excellent suspiscion! Very good job!

(I'm sorry I'm not a cool product developer or something, otherwise I might offer you a free doo-dad...hopefully respect is good enough! Little secret--I had to use Google to find out what the rest of the words were. shhhh! Don't tell! )

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Excellent suspiscion! Very good job!

(I'm sorry I'm not a cool product developer or something, otherwise I might offer you a free doo-dad...hopefully respect is good enough! Little secret--I had to use Google to find out what the rest of the words were. shhhh! Don't tell! )

There is no more valuable currency than the respect of one's peers. Thanks!

 

[Robbert Raets]

Sultans of SwordSwing; 'It ain't what they call hack & slash'

'Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?'

Hold on Tight

Great Balls of Fire

'And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.'

 

[Woas]

Try Rhapsody.

Mmm.. I LOVE Rhapsody. I mean they sing about killing dragons, finding unicorns and all sorts of stuff thats like ripped right out of D&D Land. I'm trying to make a grand Adventure around the song Lux Triumphans. For those of you who don't know the song, its starts out with a little narration piece that says,

"At the court of King Chaos... only blood... can write.. its own... ... tragedy!"

I mean, how awsome would that be... King Chaos? Courts? Blood writing? Tragedy? PERFECT!

Other bands/songs I think could make great adventure Ideas are:

RadioHead: Pyramid Song. With lyrics like, "Jump in the river, what do I see? Black eyed angles swim with me." "All my past and futures" "A room full of stars and astral cars" (Ok, maybe a wierd d20 Modern game )

Beastie Boys: Paul Revere. Of course, there would be copious amounts of brew refrenced in this adventure. "Well, my names M.C. Air, I got a liscence to kill. I think you know what time it is, its time to get ill. Now what do we have here? An outlaw and his beer? I run this land you understand I made myself clear?" "Get ready, cause this ain't funny. My names Mike D an I'm about to get money. Pulled out the Gemmi, and aimed it in the sky. He yelled "Take 'em all!" and let two fly. Heads went up as people hit the floor. He wasted to kids, that ran for the door. "I'm Mike D and I get respect. Your cash and your jewlery is what I expect!"

 

[Mallus]

"Well, my names M.C. Air...

Pssst... his name's really M.C.A.

The current adventure I'm writing for my homebrew world is set a massive port city whose patron diety --Belli Rex Legis-- is the god of lawyers. It prominently features a certain brothel and an all-female religious sect. The scenario's titled.... wait for it.... "Lawyers, Nuns, and Honeys".

I'm also playing a D20 Mod. character who calls himself "The Brimstone Baritone Anti-Cyclone Rolling Stone Preacher from the East" --aka Lester Rosenberg. He's a spell-slinging [singing?] Acolyte of the power of rock and roll, as embodied by its avatar, the Boss.

 

[Izerath]

Adventures inspired by music

I've written an adventure used for public tournament based on Metallica's song "Enter Sandman."

Occassionally, I find lyrics might inspire some train of creative thought......so yes, music can and does inspire me!

 

[Celtavian]

re

Blood Red Skies by Judas Priest

Sanitarium by Metallica.

Both songs inspired great ideas for adventures.

 

[Chimera]

For nearly 18 years this has sounded to me like the solution to an adventure;

I see seven towers
but I only see one way out
you've got to cry without weeping
talk without speaking
scream without raising your voice
You know I took the poison
from the poison stream
then I floated out of here
Singing Ha La La La De Day
Ha La La La De Day
Ha La La De Day

U2, Running to Stand Still, Joshua Tree

 

[DackBlackhawk]

Musical Inspiration

I wrote up an entire campaign on Iron Maiden's first six albums. Now I gotta catch up!

Not to mention the hoard of NPCs based on musicians/entertainers....

 

[billd91]

I don't base adventures on music as much as I base the mood of the adventures on the music I'm listening to.
When I worked college radio, I used to put together mix tapes for my Cyberpunk games. For that game I mixed in some varieties of disaffected new wave and punk along with some rap. Cassandra Complex had a very useful album actually called Cyber punx that fit the bill nicely. Laibach was also very appropriate for setting certain moods, as was Peter Murphy with "Cuts You Up", and Killing Joke.
For D&D, I've based moods more on King Crimson and "Sign of the Gypsy Queen" by April Wine. Sure, that dates me, but it has a nice mood of desperation to it that works when you manage to put the PCs' army on the retreat.