I assume this is an artist self-portrait, following some typical art history type logic, in particular because he is breaking the 4th wall and looking at us; and also that the details of his face seem more clear than other characters in the piece.
TSR Temple of Elemental Evil - Waterside Hostel
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I could use your opinions on another issue at Nulb’s Waterside Hostel.
(Things move slow in an email campaign.)
I have a bard, who played Dio’s “Rainbow in the Dark”. I thought of this in prepping TOEE in 2017. Perfect mix of 1980’s evil satanic panic era, slightly cheesy metal. There’s also a Bardcore cover by Algal the Bard!
A PC gave the bard and an SP, and asked for another song. My answer was “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” by Jimi Hendrix, so hard/classic rock with some evil magic touches.
Now another PC gave a SP and made a request for the bard to do “Broadsword”, apparently a Jethro Tull song, which I don’t know and I don’t think fits the repertoire for pro-demonic bard of Nulb. Plus as sometime a singer in real life, “no requests” - if I don’t know and haven’t practiced, I’m not going to perform it on stage.
So, I’m the bard says he doesn’t know it, but if the PC sings, he’ll play along (on lute).
After that, assuming PC’s keep asking for songs, what’s next?
From the Stranger Things 5 discussion, maybe “Master of Puppets”?
Ideas, folks?
(Things move slow in an email campaign.)
I have a bard, who played Dio’s “Rainbow in the Dark”. I thought of this in prepping TOEE in 2017. Perfect mix of 1980’s evil satanic panic era, slightly cheesy metal. There’s also a Bardcore cover by Algal the Bard!
A PC gave the bard and an SP, and asked for another song. My answer was “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” by Jimi Hendrix, so hard/classic rock with some evil magic touches.
Now another PC gave a SP and made a request for the bard to do “Broadsword”, apparently a Jethro Tull song, which I don’t know and I don’t think fits the repertoire for pro-demonic bard of Nulb. Plus as sometime a singer in real life, “no requests” - if I don’t know and haven’t practiced, I’m not going to perform it on stage.
So, I’m the bard says he doesn’t know it, but if the PC sings, he’ll play along (on lute).
After that, assuming PC’s keep asking for songs, what’s next?
From the Stranger Things 5 discussion, maybe “Master of Puppets”?
Ideas, folks?
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I'm no fan of the Eagles, but "Hotel California" has a trapped in a demonic place vibes and fits with staying a hostile hostel.
I am thinking Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne probably has a lot of appropriate songs in their repertoire.
That’s Bill. He’s a real estate novelist who never had time for a wife.
Ritchie Blackmore & Candice Night have a “bardcore” band (Blackmore’s Night) that plays some of his old Deep Purple & Rainbow stuff as period music, plus some songs original to BN.
Speaking of Rainbow, “Temple and the King”, “Rainbow Eyes”, “Man on the silver mountain” and “Kill the king” could be good to drop in.
Iron Maiden’s “Flight of Icarus” comes to mind.
Malmsteen’s “Ships Are Burned” works if you want something sinister, as would Black Sabbath’s “Disturbing the Priest”, “Children of the Sea”, “Sign of the Southern Cross”, “NIB” and maybe “Children of the Grave”
Some things for me to check out, thanks Dannyalcatraz.
I’ve been sending hints to the existence of lands other than the Flannaess and Hepmonaland in my Greyhawk, so mention of the Southern Cross is intriguing.
Sweeping clockwise from Hepmonaland:
I’ve been sending hints to the existence of lands other than the Flannaess and Hepmonaland in my Greyhawk, so mention of the Southern Cross is intriguing.
Sweeping clockwise from Hepmonaland:
- Isle of Dread
- Guadalante. Cal/Mex Zorro-like setting from Dungeon. Forgotten large island colony of the Great Kingdom, like real-world Greenland in being forgotten by its colonizers.
- Aramax. Same creative and in game origins, but on the mainland, where some people put Zhindia.
- Willow setting. Cashmere (mostly post apocalyptic Zhindia due to Twin Cataclysms fallout in my version) next to Aramax, Tir Asleen on the east shore of the Dragon Sea.
- D&D cartoon setting on the west shore of the Dragon Sea. (No Celestial Empire or Nippon.)
- Izmir from D&D: Wrath of the Dragon God.
- Chainmail setting as NW Oerik. Ravilla, etc.
- Fireland to the NE of the North Province is another forgotten colony of the GK, using Raging Swan’s Picaroon Peninsula, Gloamhold, etc.
- West and a bit south of Fireland: Kozakura (or possibly Wa and Kozakura) from Oriental Adventures before Forgotten Realms kidnapped Kara-Tur. Once attacked by Ravilla, now fiercely isolationist.
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I can almost see this as a personalized Ravenloft setting, or an afterlife that imperfectly mirrors the realm of the living…
What Jakandor? Or my version of Greyhawk?
Your version of Greyhawk.
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