Ason
2011-12-18, 05:21 PM
Hello again Playground! One of my good real-life gamer buddies and I have been talking about re-establishing a regular time/place for D&D and reviving our gaming group, and I've offered to DM a quick 3.P campaign to get us all used to each other and set a fun tone. Now, for the long-term I want a heavy RP campaign, but for this introduction, my goal is for us to be extremely silly and just let loose. Enough introduction, here's the idea:
The premise is that a metal band of hell-spawned monstrosities has been assembled by one of the lower planes' leaders (leaning towards Orcus) to compete in a plane-spanning battle of the bands. Most of the battles they'll fight will be against other music ensembles with their own themes: the gnome deities' servants as parody cover group (Weird Al, etc), Modrons in classical orchestra, Slaad as freeform jazz, a troupe of elementals playing new age (Enya, etc), a band of dim-witted Centaurs calling themselves Wyld Stallyns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Ted's_Excellent_Adventure), other demons/devils playing different kinds of rock, a human boy playing on a fiddle of gold, and so on and so on. There will be a few other encounters outside the battle of bands as well, just to mix things up, but even those will be humorous and may include things like undead mimes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlt0cKRjuLM).
All the players will be playing various Heavy Metal races. The ideas I've come up with so far are: Warforged with the Fire-Souled template given for free (Dragon Mag 314- gives a big Cha bonus and some fun toys) and LA+1 fire elementals, demons and undead (if you know any good ones for PCs, let me know). For simplicity and thematic reasons, I'll probably homebrew some extra features like the ability to make Perform checks each round in addition to their other actions and magical guitars/basses that double as axes. For class builds, everyone will be a gestalt where one half must be Bard or Bard PrCs, but the other half is wide open, so there should be plenty of variation.
Here are my questions:
1) Any ideas or suggestions for this kind of campaign? Has anyone done or seen something like this before? (My Google skills turned up nothing.)
2) I'm very curious to see what other kinds of bands or challenges y'all can come up with. Any ideas for unique encounter scenarios? (i.e. groupie battles, who can make the other guys sell out first) What about other band ideas?
3) Am I being too restrictive in any of these things? I only do it because my group is a bit too prone to excessive min-maxing, and I don't want us going too far afield from the usual heavy metal tropes. (i.e. a character playing a half-celestial gnome in this band would just be silly, obviously)
Thanks Playground! Party on dudes!
The premise is that a metal band of hell-spawned monstrosities has been assembled by one of the lower planes' leaders (leaning towards Orcus) to compete in a plane-spanning battle of the bands. Most of the battles they'll fight will be against other music ensembles with their own themes: the gnome deities' servants as parody cover group (Weird Al, etc), Modrons in classical orchestra, Slaad as freeform jazz, a troupe of elementals playing new age (Enya, etc), a band of dim-witted Centaurs calling themselves Wyld Stallyns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Ted's_Excellent_Adventure), other demons/devils playing different kinds of rock, a human boy playing on a fiddle of gold, and so on and so on. There will be a few other encounters outside the battle of bands as well, just to mix things up, but even those will be humorous and may include things like undead mimes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlt0cKRjuLM).
All the players will be playing various Heavy Metal races. The ideas I've come up with so far are: Warforged with the Fire-Souled template given for free (Dragon Mag 314- gives a big Cha bonus and some fun toys) and LA+1 fire elementals, demons and undead (if you know any good ones for PCs, let me know). For simplicity and thematic reasons, I'll probably homebrew some extra features like the ability to make Perform checks each round in addition to their other actions and magical guitars/basses that double as axes. For class builds, everyone will be a gestalt where one half must be Bard or Bard PrCs, but the other half is wide open, so there should be plenty of variation.
Here are my questions:
1) Any ideas or suggestions for this kind of campaign? Has anyone done or seen something like this before? (My Google skills turned up nothing.)
2) I'm very curious to see what other kinds of bands or challenges y'all can come up with. Any ideas for unique encounter scenarios? (i.e. groupie battles, who can make the other guys sell out first) What about other band ideas?
3) Am I being too restrictive in any of these things? I only do it because my group is a bit too prone to excessive min-maxing, and I don't want us going too far afield from the usual heavy metal tropes. (i.e. a character playing a half-celestial gnome in this band would just be silly, obviously)
Thanks Playground! Party on dudes!