BATTLE OF THE BARDS - Heat 3!

[Mary_Crowell]

You guys and your fancy schmancy spell books. Fireball is all you really need. And maybe Lightning Bolt as a backup.

Only if your DC is verah verah high, my friend.

TTTO The Reflex
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[Mary_Crowell]

Trying to delete. (Accidentally double posted.)

 

[Bardiclug]

Only if your DC is verah verah high, my friend.

"Bah, that's what sandba.... er, Fighters are for. And Clerics. Oh, and Rangers..."

Ignatious "Goliath" Granitereaver, Gnome Sorcerer

 

[Lanefan]

Only if your DC is verah verah high, my friend.

As my namesake character has been wont to say on occasion: "You get one spell, if you're quick; for when I get to you I will only need one swing, and you will die."

He has a Wizardslayer longsword, you see; which he laid in for after being fried one too many times by mis-aimed spells cast by his supposed allies.

One of these days I'll have to dream up some lyrics to go with that sword. It deserves them.

Lan-"that said, there are few if any problems that cannot be solved by repeated use of fireball"-efan

 

[jonesy]

You guys should do a collaboration. This selection fits really well together.

Playing D&D sounds like a song you'd hear at the beginning of an in-depth documentary on the roleplaying games culture.

Kingdom of Spiders could be for a new D&D cartoon, or maybe it could have a music video in the style of this (Merry Melodies, Beware the Wizard): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PvJ1zBJ-us

Swing Beat is the intro for a tv show where the lead character is a member of a party who are on a constant roadtrip around a D&D-style country, where they get into hijinks and accidentally save the world at the end.

Cliche Song is the intro for Cheers, D&D-style. I'd watch that show.

M is For Magic Missile is a song from a D&D opera on Broadway.

 

[jonesy]

Disjunction, Junction
Lose all function
Breaking up wands, and bracers, and potions.
Disjunction, Junction
How's that function?
I had three favorite swords
Got most of my job done.
Disjunction, Junction
What's their function?
They're not 'keen,' 'shock,' or 'smite'
At least not anymore.

As Captain Kirk would shout, his hands reaching skywards:

DisjunctiooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNnnnNNNNnN!!!!!

 

[Lanefan]

I look forward to hearing your song!

I did up some not-very-good lyrics this evening, not much idea for a tune to go with 'em, but ideally it'd be kind of a loud raunchy metal sound to go with the loud raunchy metal character from whose point of view it's written.

Lan-"a loud raunchy character who wears lots of metal"-efan

 

[Lanefan]

Disjunction, Junction
Lose all function
Breaking up wands, and bracers, and potions.
Disjunction, Junction
How's that function?
I had three favorite swords
Got most of my job done.
Disjunction, Junction
What's their function?
They're not 'keen,' 'shock,' or 'smite'
At least not anymore.

Disjunction, junktion
No compunction
The bright side: I won't leave much stuff lying 'round
Disjunction, junction
Big malfunction
Flying, free falling, crash to the ... >ouch!<

Lanefan

 

[KesselZero]

Man, it is CLOSE! I'm just proud to be neck and neck with such august company.

 

[Morrus]

Man, it is CLOSE! I'm just proud to be neck and neck with such august company.

I thought the last heat was close for the first few days - but this one really is! By far the most evenly spread cache of votes of the contest; still the heat only began yesterday, so it could all change.