"Band on Tour" - Campaign idea

[Wik]

Sounds cool to me- do sample Jabberjaw or Josie and the Pussycats/JatP in Outer Space if you decide to go the more humorous route.

You might also want to check out RW road stories. I recall...

1. one about a band playing a strip club in Canada whose lead singer leaned out over the crowd...and got domed by the ceiling fan.
2. one about the band Hard Corps whose mix of rap & rock was on the rise. The rapper/lead vocalist, however, had never encountered stage divers, so when a guy jumped up on stage to initiate a little dive & surf, he decked him.
3. one about a euro-metal band in the 1980s who was touring the USA, and somewhere in the western desert states, their tour bus broke down. They called their label's main office to get someone to pay for a wrecker, etc.- after all, nobody wearing skintight leather and a half-ton of Aquanet carries cash (no pockets)- they found out that one of the label's executives had embezzled the company's entire war-chest. The label was as broke as the bus. (Cue howling coyotes in the starry night.)

Oo! Fun game!

If we're going for a musical theme, there are so many name drops you can do.

1. The PCs need to meet a healer of some sort, named Maxwell. He has a silver hammer. And lately, people have been getting killed...
2. Led Zeppelin is great for road stories. Just read about them, and you'll get legends. "I am a Golden God!" or, my personal favourite, the "Mud Shark Incident" (I won't go into details here... Eric's Gramma and all)
3. the crazy fan, who follows the PCs around, breaking into their homes to leave tokens of her affection. "She came in through the bathroom window" and all that jazz.
4. The band needs a manager. Someone who just oozes shady. I'm thinking the guy from Spinal Tap is a good place to start.
5. At some point, someone needs to steal the PCs' music and pass it off as his own. I'd also think a Napster allegory could be a lot of fun ("the fans are getting our music without paying!? This SUCKS!")

 

[roguerouge]

Paizo's Falcon's Hollow series sounds like a perfect match for this campaign.

paizo.com - Pathfinder® / Pathfinder Modules / 3.5 Plague strikes town, band has to get cure for groupie?

paizo.com - Pathfinder® / Pathfinder Modules / 3.5 The band gets in hot water with the local fuzz, has to do community service with the local urchins. When they return on the way back, the adorable moppetts that they befriended? Missing. (Note: this module can be run at any party level up to 6th or so due to the hook.)

paizo.com - Pathfinder® / Pathfinder Modules / 3.5 This was supposed to be their day off! Can they save their groupies and drug connections from... the Carnival of Tears!

Wiki: Falcon's Hollow - PathfinderWiki

 

[weem]

We played a one-off where we were all bards in a traveling band.

This particular game was about a gig in a town where after our show we were asked to play for some dignitary (who we were to kill... yes, we were bad guys).

It involved a nice skill challenge of moving through the streets avoiding our rabid fans, hehe

 

[jaerdaph]

For some reason this thread is giving me a massive feeling of déjà vu...

Perhaps something similar came up in another thread recently?

Anyhow, I think it's a cool idea. You might want to try and find a copy of the issue of DUNGEON with the d20 Mini Game Hijinx - a tribute to the Saturday morning band cartoons like Scooby Doo and Josie and the Pussycats. (It was in the POLYHEDRON "flip-side" when DUNGEON used to be two mags in one.) I believe Paizo still carries that issue.

It's still feeling like déjà vu though to me...

 

[Mournblade94]

Pretty cool idea! It kind of reminds me of Josie and the Pussycats. The band comes into town, there is a problem, Josie and crew solve it or something, and then they play for the town. It worked for Hannah and Barberra a couple of years. Josie is still one of my favourite cartoons.

 

[jaerdaph]

I'm Not Crazy!!!

I *knew* something similar came up before:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...port-sword-sorcery-style-castle-greyhawk.html

 

[Aus_Snow]

Having toured with a band or two, and played as part of one in a RPG (though that was much more shotgun than fireball, generally speaking) I can say that yeah, there's plenty of fun to be had. And certainly, weird stuff galore. . .

As usual, Dannyalcatraz brings it.

As for blending system aspects, well, you could always use *aspects* - from FATE v3, that is. Could work really nicely for this, I think.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Having toured with a band or two, and played as part of one in a RPG (though that was much more shotgun than fireball, generally speaking) I can say that yeah, there's plenty of fun to be had. And certainly, weird stuff galore. . .

Got any good road stories?

As usual, Dannyalcatraz brings it.

This site really needs a "my head is swelling from praise" smiliey.