Let's play a game Veeky Forums.
Each person posts a song and the poster after them thinks up a campaign/adventure/plot hook based on that song. Doesn't have to be a big overarching plot, could just be the impetus for a one shot or something.
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not Veeky Forums related
how is coming up with ideas for plot hooks and campaigns not Veeky Forums?
Too lazy to make up a plot hook based on your song but music (especially prog rock) has given me ideas many times. If I ever write a book I'll be damn sure every chapter title is a song, so I can subconsciously push my tastes in dad music on anyone who reads it.
The Board Fun Police don't believe in creativity.
I wanted to participate, but then I hated your song
Eh, then post another so we can try it.
Make sure to pick song titles that aren't super well known. Nothing its more jarring than reading a book and seeing a chapter heading that's a big name single.
Gucci Gang
Someone has to post this.
A team of adventurers discovers a large succubus colony that has been capturing young humans, draining them, and then releasing them with mental compulsions to return after slowly cutting all ties to their previous life. They have to exterminate the whole colony without falling prey to it.
Hard mode for the next one:
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Players wake up in a pile of shit
They are attacked by bunch of goblins and a tiger. Tiger is somehow the most intelligent one
World of Darkness, Hunter: The Reckoning in the 1970s.
The party stops at a disco club looking for leads on their next hunt only to find that the doors to the club are locked like a fucking bank vault and the patrons will just not stop dancing. They don't even talk to the players, they just keep dancing until their bodies give out and they're just twitching on the floor.
It turns out The DJ is a fucking Demon playing music that the players are (mostly) plot bullshit immune to that posses people to dance until they die[/spoiler
And for mine,
>youtube.com
>Centuries ago, an angel was exiled from the Heavens for a crime who's nature has been lost to history.
>Having made his home upon the fabled Silver Mountain, one of the most holy sites in the world due to its natural abundance of truesilver, the angel has spent centuries with the people of the mountain searching for absolution.
>However, after ages without any response from heaven, the angel is growing despondent. He has to make heaven notice him so he can return, and something is whispering treachery in his ear.
>In his desperate need to return, he has figured that if he destroys the mountain, burns away the people and tears apart the truesilver veins, it will be something so great that heaven cannot ignore him any longer.
>Little does he know that the mountain is not a natural occurance; it is a prison, the truesilver holding beneath it a devil of great power and subtlety, who is urging him to break apart the mountain.
Enter the party. Are you bad enough dudes to grant an angel absolution and stop the destruction of the Silver Mountain?
As for my song, youtube.com
Any Jojo campaign ever
Changeling the Lost.
You and your motley recently escaped the same captor together. Unlike most other Changelings, however, your former Keeper is actively pursuing you and you can't stay in one place for very long. There is a chance, a slim one, that there exist tools and allies that will let you fight back somewhere out there, but until you find them you've got to keep running.
A stealth-focused Shadowrun game in which the runners have to tail a famous musician across the country during a tour in order to find the secret locations along the trip where he's hiding dead-drops filled with information stolen from his record company as a play in a massive feud over recording rights and blackmail.
You've got to follow him at all times, while still remaining unnoticeable. Lots of disguises, lots of hiding behind glass near him, lots of sneaking into his tour bus and hiding in the luggage.
Try and have a go at this one:
A local rancher's crops were taken over by carnivorous plants,the pc have to find a steampowered dwarven harvester that got burried in a mudslide and could be used to get rid of the plants, the machine is intact but the key is missing. The key is with a dwarf deep in the woods whose clan was driven out when the rancher's grandfather took over the land, he says he will only give the key if he is allowed to marry the rancher's daughter (who does not want to marry him).
A famous painter has been cursed. Where once he painted beautiful vistas and stunning portraits, now he paints only black, a cruel midas-touch that transmutes any art or writing he creates to pitch black bars, devoid of all creativity. Desperate, he seeks out the party's help, certain that it was caused by a spiteful patron who attempted to bribe him to disfigure a portrait of a political rival, and who is rumored to traffic with witches and demons.
A clan of proud warriors was enslaved by BBEG, in his dying breath their chief tells them about a legend that says that if the their magical lost flag is retrieved and raised on the top of the BBEG's keep they will be returned to their former glory and the BBEG will lose his powers.
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A noble's daughter is kidnaped by a evil wizard and the PCs have to chase him it's revealed that the wizard is her lover who fled with her and became possesed by a evil spirit during a magic experiment gone wrong
Evil magics cause hell and earth to merge, and the players must traverse the monstrous result to find and kill Satan.
Along the way they fight and befriend people and demons alike.
The PCs are invinted to feast at a old noble's house, they arive early and there is a snowstorm and the house is cut off from the outside world, the only people in the house other than the nobleman and the PCs are servants and the nobles' 3 sons. the noble decided to make a statement about a change to his will but he dies of poisoning. the brothers and the servants house start slinging accusations and trying to speculate about the will, the players must solve the murder and find the will.
EEEEEEEESY MOWED!?: Base it upon the cover of the game.
Normal Mode: Music+Cover.
HARD MODE: Music alone.
INSANE BUTTFUCKER MODE: Lyrics only.
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Normal mode: a volcano demon (who looks like the floating monster with crossed legs from the cover) will cause a erruption and destroy a nearby a village in 1 week unless they provide him with sacrifices. the players must cross a river of lava, enter the volcano demon's temple and destroy him before it's to late.
I really like this one.
The big crime families of the city are finally coming to a truce after a long period of war. You and the rest of your gang were once ex-cons, enforcers and lowlives from the different clans, gangs and colours, but you put aside your differences and went straight as a rock band/club owners years back. Now the bosses want to use you guys and your club to help broker the peace as a neutral party - keep the guests safe from each other, keep them entertained, and keep anyone who wants to disrupt the peace out.
The party are orcs, goblins, lesser undead, beastmen or other minions of the dark lord on garrison duty. The tide has turned against your master, and any day now the forces of good will roll over your position like a wave. You just want to go home to your lair - do you stay, fight for a seemingly lost cause you may not even believe in, or desert and hope to survive long enough to make it home?
It's basically the story of the song: a mysterious stranger comes to town packing serious heat, turns out to be a lawman just passing through after a particularly nasty outlaw, there's going to be a hell of a shootout.
Only its a mecha campaign.
I always thought Hotel California would make a good Call/Trails of Cthulhu game. A group of travelers stop in a sea side hotel as the night starts to fade in and suddenly find themselves unable to leave, years passing in moments while odd guest talk about their lives and events that obviously didn't take place during this decade.
A arranged marriage is made to seal the peace between two dwarven clans, the players will work as in security in the wedding and try to stop things from going to shit as the dwarves get drunk and angry at each other
Giant monsters attack a city but they are actually explorers from another planet who dont understand the harm they are causing.
A small town is between the hammer and the anvil- for years they have been giving yearly children sacrifices to a black dragon, to appease. As of lately though, a wich has made herself a hut in the middle of nearby forest and she as well steals children (obv to eat them; pic.rel = her house).
The day of sacrifice has come but the wich has stolen the unfortunate kids.
This is gerenally a “no-good-solution” situation, for if players chose to retrieve lost kids, during their absence dragon burns the town. If on the other hand they decide to kill the serpent, the witch kidnaps all the children (a la Pan Piper).
This isn't really what you had in mind, but I had an idea for a one-shot based around being sent out to rescue a princess from a dragon, but by the time you get there you find that the dragon's lair has been taken over by a fungal hivemind that consumed the dragon and assimilated the princess, elevating her as the mouthpiece and focus of power for the hivemind.
I'm so fucking glad someone posted this song. Someone do one for Neon Knights by Black Sabbath.
A very rich man has had his vast fortune and a private jet stolen by a group of plucky eastern European youths, who will very quickly spend the lot on their girlfriends and ludicrously tasteless tat - assuming that another criminal enterprise doesn't take it from them first. Get the money back pronto!
Thinking comic crime caper for the tone, ridiculous Pink Panther style hijinks rather than Easter Promise grim.
The PCs are hired by a government agent to kill a group of aliens that are abducting humans and are going after him. Except that the agent is a alien gangster from a crashed prison ship and the aliens the PCs are going after are trying to recapture him.
A suicide bomber wakes up at the peaceful, never-ending beach with the beautiful calm ocean. At first, he rejoices as he believes himself to be in paradise. However as endless time passes with no one else to be seen, he realizes that he is in fact, in hell.
The river near a small village became poisonous, the elder tells the PCs that it was cursed by a sorceress who was drowned in it a 100 of years ago. The players must go upriver and put her soul to rest to reverse the curse, but the nearer they are to the source the stronger is the power of the curse.
A young village guy weighs upon if the adventure is really necessary as he hears for recruitment
The party is all undead, trapped within a labyrinth, forced to go through a hellish gauntlet until they find and kill the man who raised them.
>Six days ago an expedition from the Crown stumbled across a great iron door in the side of a mountain while following a map proclaiming to have found the "Forge of the Iron God"
>Of the team of fifteen that entered, only two returned. The first was missing an arm and a significant portion of skin on the right side of his chest, which looked to have been burned away. The other had a strange brand in the shape of a curling set of horns resembling a human ribcage imprinted on his right hand in some kind of metal, seared to the skin.
>He told of a sprawling city below the earth made of bronze-clad towers, of iron guardians and flowing rivers of molten steel, of mountains of precious metals and shining gemstones. Of the beasts that prowl the halls slavering rust and liquid metal. Of the endless sound of hammers and gears.
>And at the center of it all, a great staue of strange and unearthly metals and machinery, crawling with servitors, the damaged core of some alien intelligence at its heart. The Iron God.
>Whatever secrets the city could tell the world would beyond imagining, but they need help. They need a team. They need heroes.
Is the party up for the task?
>the party is tasked by a God to save the life of their favorite Cleric
>Cleric is trapped, and the God can't help because the Cleric's faith is at an all-time low
>the party must restore the Cleric's faith so that healing magic can work on him again
