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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 1767577" data-attributes="member: 13098">Music is great!  I love the symphony.  Partly because it helps just get me creative.I use a lot of things to get inspiration.  Story Hours always have great stuff to snarf.  Go read some of those.  But my favorite is coming up with a "scene" and then working backwards to try to bring that about.  Artwork, movies, raw imagination, all sorts of things that grab me and shout "I'm Cool".  Whether it is something that the hero's attain, or something the bad guys want to attain, that is the goal I am working toward.  Just don't get too devoted to the idea.  The PCs will throw all sorts of wrenches into the equation.  The point is you had the inspiration.Dungeonmastercarl, you already have a great hook sitting in front of you on your .sig.  Wrap a theme for a campaign around that song.  <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=":)" />  Whether it is the PCs helping an NPC, or if you have to cajole, plead and beg with a player to go with that song as a focus, do it!  Maybe there is a God that has been downgraded to mortality and the focus of the game is to re-elevate that God back to divinity?  OK, that's a little epic in proportions.  Instead, how about a cleric or priest that has to deal with somebody else spreading vicious rumours?  These rumors lead to the PC(s) being cast out of the church.  The PC(s) now have to find out who is spreading the rumors, why, and then prove them to be wrong.  They need/want to be brought back into the church, to be made holy again.Lyrics have always been fun potential storyhooks.  In fact, I am pretty sure there was a thread on here about it a while back.  One of the ones I have been toying with lately is from Iron Maiden."I'm coming back, I will return,I'll posess your body and I'll make you burn.I have the fire, I have the force,I have the power to make my evil takes it's course"Or thereabouts.  I keep thinking this would be a nice way to integrate an Effigy (From MMII) into a higher level game.</blockquote>

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