Session 01 GURPS Modern Fantasy
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I was mightily inspired by the Who's "Athena" when writing this last September (but threw in some Heinlein for flavor).
And I'm assuming you've seen these?
When I read your title the first song I thought of was Hotel California.
"2112" or any early Rush... or any prog-rock at all, really. But give the narrator of 2112 a few traveling companions and you have a roleplaying campaign, beginning to end, written on one side of an album.
I wrote a compaign arc using the lyrics from a couple of different Iron Maiden songs. Worked out pretty well.
not to touch the earth by the doors
Not to touch the earth
Not to see the sun
Nothing left to do, but
Run, run, run
Let's run
Let's run
House upon the hill
Moon is lying still
Shadows of the trees
Witnessing the wild breeze
C'mon baby run with me
Let's run
Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let's run
The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you won't know a thing till you get inside
Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
The engine runs on glue and tar
Come on along, not goin' very far
To the East to meet the Czar
Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let's run
Whoa!
Some outlaws lived by the side of a lake
The minister's daughter's in love with the snake
Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl, we're almost home
Ya, c'mon!
We should see the gates by mornin'
We should be inside the evenin'
Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
I will get you
Soon!
Soon!
Soon!
I am the Lizard King
I can do anything
and Ladytron's soft power
Broken glass is luxury;
Friendly fires are alchemy;
Daylight is the enemy;
Witching hour, soft power
We're not sleeping at the wheel.
The wheel is turning the machine
that kills for us.
Close your eyes, so you're not seen
in Valentine's daydream.
We're not sleeping at the wheel
The wheel is turning the machine
that kills for us.
The arrogance of the forest
Setting fire to the tourists
We're not sleeping at the wheel
The wheel is turning the machine
that kills for us.
Broken glass is luxury;
Friendly fires are alchemy;
Daylight is the enemy;
Witching hour, soft power.
There are a lot of Jethro Tull songs that would be usable, ranging from straight-up barbarian fantasy in "Broadsword" through the weird animals of "Bungle in the Jungle". But "Passion Play" tops them all with tons of intricate, weird fantasy and a very strange cosmology. Dogs howling in madness, leatherbound men escorting ghosts along the beach, polite spiders seeking to feast on the corpses of prisoners in dark cells, an icy Lucifer who absent-mindedly bestows benefits and curses on humanity as an accidental side effect of his activities...
You could have whole campaigns based on classic concept albums.
I was wondering if I could do an old Genesis "Lamb Lies Down" game/campaign. Prog rock is what you need for fantasy games, I think. Not sure for other genres...
The Sound of Silence: Night-time visitations, abandoned city streets, sinister anonymous crowds, artificial gods.
"And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made"
Frank Sinatra by Cake.
"We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations"
"Beyond the suns that guard this roof
Beyond your flowers of flaming truths"
"An old man sits collecting stamps
In a room all filled with Chinese lamps
He saves what others throw away
He says that he'll be rich someday"
Definitely thought of Hotel California when I read the title; I actually ran an off-the-cuff adventure based on the song when the players hit a monastery and I had nothing written down for it.
Judas Priest "Nightcrawler"
Now when I die, and don't think I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like ol' King Tut.
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