Your favorite bands as adventuring parties.

[Arcane Runes Press]

Metallica, circa 1991:

All Drow Party.

All multi-class bard/barbarians.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I think the more interesting topic would be: Your favorite adventuring parties as bands...

 

[Herremann the Wise]

This is such a horrible idea.

But the concept of The Beatles battling Orcs is such a hilarious yet awesome one, I can't help but forgive whoever started this thread.

Too true!!!

The Floyd

David Gilmour - Aristocrat
Roger Waters - Ranger/Druid
Nick Mason - Fighter
Rick Wright - Bard

Syd Barret - Sorcerer/Alienist {The voices eventually got to him }

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

 

[Dogbrain]

Watching VH1 recently discuss Guns n Roses, I was struck by how cool it would be to play an adventuring party based on them.

I went to high school with those guys. "Cool" and Bill Bailey just do not go together. "Poser" and Bill Bailey go together. For those of you who don't know, Bill Bailey now hides behind really dumb-looking plastic surgery and calls himself "Axl Rose".

 

[Dogbrain]

* Paladin (John)

Paladins don't give donations to the Irish Republican Army.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Ted Nugent - Human Barbarian/Bard, CN.

I think Ted would have some Ranger levels.

 

[devoblue]

I always wanted to play a bard called Robert Smith.

Get the roadies to do the fighting, evoker special effects guys, illusionist lighting guys, etc. All the band members can just be bards and alchemists.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Johnny Cash-Rogue/Ranger

 

[Meowzebub]

Blue Oyster Cult comes immediately to mind when I saw this thread. With nearly all their songs dealing with matters of fantasy and the occult, I can almost see them creating songs based on their various campaigns. Vampires, winged horsemen, Elric (and other Moorcock themes), Aliens, Men in Black (Way before Wil Smith and the MiB), Godzilla, Pychic Warriors, Biker Gangs, and even Joan Crawford as a Zombie (or perhaps a ghoul). I have pulled a lot of their song material into shaping my campaign. And the heroes in my world will always find respite and trouble at the Four Winds Bar.

 

[Tav_Behemoth]

I'm fully down with the Beatles fighting Orcs! I already posted my own vision of them as an adventuring party in the Famous people you'd like to see play a D&D campaign thread.

For a d20 Modern version, I was once inspired by old photos of Bruce Lee wearing Lennon specs and Nehru jackets, as well as Elvis's preoccupation with karate, to write an alternate history short story based on the idea that the Avatar of Rock had to face the enemies of humanity in a kung fu tournament; Elvis failed and became fat and drug-addicted, the Beatles failed and so Paul really was dead, then Bruce Lee had to take his place and reunite the Beatles in 1976. Unfortunately it turned out to be one of those stories that's better to think about than to write.

BTW, did you know that Bruce's first championship was in a ballroom dancing competition? Not quite the same as being a rock' n' roll star, true...