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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bloodstone Press" data-source="post: 1606898" data-attributes="member: 12468">I didn't read through the thread, so it might have mentioned already, but Jethro Tull songs have a lot of inspireing ideas. THe Minstral in the Gallery has shown up in one of my games (slightly altered),and the 45 minute version of Thick as a Brick is all about a young prince who is too young to go off to war with his Father and Brothers. While they are gone he is left in charge of the castle. When they return, he decides to fight them and keep power for himself.  Read the central parts :The Poet and the Painter casting shadows on the water as the sun plays on the infantry returning from the sea.The do-er and the thinker: no allowance for the other as the failing light illuminates the mercenary's creed.The home fire burning: the kettle almost boiling but the master of the house is far away.The horses stamping, their warm breath cloudingin the sharp and frosty morning of the day.And the poet lifts his pen while the soldier sheaths his sword.And the youngest of the family is moving with authority.Building castles by the sea, he dares the tardy tide to wash them all aside.The cattle quietly grazing at the grass down by the riverwhere the swelling mountain water moves onward to the sea:the builder of the castles renews the age-old purposeand contemplates the milking girl whose offer is his need.The young men of the household have all gone into service and are not to be expected for a year.The innocent young master - thoughts moving ever faster -has formed the plan to change the man he seems.And the poet sheaths his pen while the soldier lifts his sword.And the oldest of the family is moving with authority.Coming from across the sea, he challenges the son who puts him to the run.What do you do when the old man's gone - do you want to be him?And your real self sings the song. Do you want to free him?No one to help you get up steamand the whirlpool turns you `way off-beam.Edit: Added this bit: That showed up in our game just a few weeks ago.... We're still too scared to go into the swamp though....   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Also, Black Sabbath's Supertzar. Its an intrumental, but it always reminds me of marching demon armies. It just kicks so much a$$!  Led Zeppelin, of course. The Battle of Evermore inspired whole campaigns for me when I was a teenager. Beware the Dragon of Darkness. Recently, I've been thinking of writing a d20 Modern adventure based on some of the political issues raised by Rage Against the Machine. "Violence is in all hands, embrace it if need be...."</blockquote>

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