Sup Veeky Forums. So, I get to DM a one shot tomorrow, and this one is special. My, formerly super religious, mom is going to be playing at the table.
Now, since this is the woman who got me into Boston, Styx, and others of that ilk, I thought it would be fun to run a Prog/Rock Opera style game. "The Wizard of Greysky Tower has stolen the Melody of Joy from the Bards of the land." sort of thing.
Any grognards or youngnards have ideas/suggestions that would really make it sparkle?
System is 5th ed. At least one character will be a walking anachronism set on disrupting the plot (he's not That Guy, it's just how he rolls).
Here's the thing: it doesn't have to be a romantic epic/messianic story/archetypal myth, because there are other structures of story everyone is familiar with thanks to tv and popular novels. So...why not a murder mystery?
Everyone has seen Colombo or CSI or read a Agatha Christie novel or seen one of the movie adaptations. You can set it during an Immigrant Song style Lief Erikson visitation of Vikings to the New World, with the mysticism/Faerie stuff of Come Sail Away.
Wyatt Foster
You made me think of Tenacious D's "Wonderboy" for the first time in years. It's golden inspiration, thank you.
Julian Evans
Also excellent.
Ian Adams
I don't the idea doesn't sound that good desu OP. I give it 7/16.
Jaxson Lee
Bad bait, man. The 'desu' was too over the top. You gotta nuance it a bit. Ffs have some pride in your craftsmanship.
Carson Barnes
the best way to do plotline that will seem inspired by progrock is to first create the basis of the story and finish the notes under the influence of LSD
Easton Morgan
>tomorrow not much prep time, my dude. i'd make the wizard a cleric who stole the melody because he wants to be the purveyor of joy through religion, only he has very little joy to dispense so he has to ration it and club everyone else. but that's only a minor subtext for those players interested enough to dig it up. i'd have them go through madcap encounters each more ridiculous than the last, courtesy of mr plot disrupter and you, and at the end force them to come up with a song about it. bring an acoustic guitar, play a few chords and sing the song they compose and they win. mom gotta love her kid trying to sing.
Ian Wood
Did you use lesbians for the OP because prog rock is fucking gay?
Connor Nguyen
Badass idea. Two of my players are studio musicians.
Brody Nguyen
Definitely involve a romantic band of outlaws who want to bring the players some songs from the wood
Ayden Campbell
>he's actually this new
Luis Young
This. This is going in. Robspierre Aqualung and his Merry Minstrals are cannon now.
Also, the villains are a demonic boy band whose manager is stealing the talents of the realms greatest bards with evil fae known as Song Stealers.
Yes, I ripped off Space Jam and Rainbow Brite and then gave it a pinch of Dio. I have never been this chuffed to DM.
Thanks for the good ideas Veeky Forums.
Easton Perez
Ever hear of "Olias od Sunhillow"?
Jeremiah Rodriguez
>The Wizard of Greysky Tower If there is a tower, it needs to have been originally built by a stargazing wizard who stepped off it without remembering to cast Fly first.
Sounds good. You could just say he stole "The Song" and have to find all the bits. To find the harmony you must do a puzzle which is arranging things in just the right way, the rhythm is an order of operations (timing) problem, the melody is a fight with the mage himself.
Justin White
>he doesn't know >HE DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT DESU
Bentley Robinson
>Yes, I ripped off Space Jam and Rainbow Brite and then gave it a pinch of Dio
Also Daft Punk, though the plot of Crescendolls is more "The manager is an immortal eldritch horror who wants to music but cannot so he reps talent, turns them into his puppets, and sucks the life out of them"
William Diaz
he stole the song and scattered it's pieces so the people would have to turn to HIM for his false-joy, manufactured and put out by his manufactured boy band
