Magic Jukebox

[kjones]

My players in a 3.5 campaign recently acquired a tavern, and expressed an interest in installing a magic jukebox. Any idea how I would go about representing this with the rules?

[Starsinger]

Warforged Bard 1 with Dexterity of 0?

[Hairb]

A set of instruments, animated with the Animate Objects spell.

[Tallis]

Wondrous item casts ghost sound at will? Buttons trigger seperate casting of different songs.

[shadow_archmagi]

Warforged Bard 1 with Dexterity of 0?

I always wondered how someone with absolutely no hand-eye coordination could play a musical instrument better than someone who was ugly and hated by all.

[Prometheus]

I say go with a wind-up music box that has different songs depending on the way someone grips the handle (gentle-soft light music, hard-heavy loud etc) and can tell what type song they want to hear but they never play the same song twice.

[Flickerdart]

I always wondered how someone with absolutely no hand-eye coordination could play a musical instrument better than someone who was ugly and hated by all.

CHA != looks. Mindflayers are butt-ugly, but they get a huge racial bonus to it. It's more like force of personality.

Which means politicians can all jam pretty well.

[Ascension]

I always wondered how someone with absolutely no hand-eye coordination could play a musical instrument better than someone who was ugly and hated by all.

Performance is all about perception. Sure, their music is terrible without good DEX, but they have just enough charisma to make you like them anyway, somehow.

See William Hung.

[jcsw]

A set of instruments, animated with the Animate Objects spell.

'm pretty sure the animate instruments spell would be better for this. (comp. Scoundrel)

(You'll need to convince your DM to let you permanency this though. But it's not as if it's a far stretch, since animate objects can be permanancied.)

[Thurbane]

I'd say some kind of object with a series of permanent Ghost Sound cantrips cast on it...

[drengnikrafe]

What about a box imbuned with Ghost Sound (infinite per day) with a copper piece as a material componant? The user simply has to focus on what they want to hear, and it plays that. After the person purchasing the song stops playing the tune in their head, it plays that a few more times. Then, the copper piece is transported to the PC (or somewhere else, at least).

[Xyk]

I like the warforged bard with dex 0.

[Collin152]

Which means politicians can all jam pretty well.

I refrence Bill Clinton's Sax.

[BobVosh]

Warforged Bard 1 with Dexterity of 0?

I bequeath unto thee an internet(s)

You need a Fonze to make it work properly though.

[Hairb]

Warforged Bard 1 with Dexterity of 0?

At Dex 0 this bard of yours wouldn't be able to move at all. What instrument is he meant to play then?

[MisterSaturnine]

At Dex 0 this bard of yours wouldn't be able to move at all. What instrument is he meant to play then?

His heart.

[bosssmiley]

D&D AC10 "Book of Wondrous Inventions" - home of the magic boombox (used the D&D equivalanets of scry and ghost sound in combo to tune into local bardic performances IIRC).

The same volume of inspired lunacy was also the home of the black pudding dishwasher, the gnomish ATM, the Mimic soda vending machine, the magic washing machine (spin cycle was a skeleton doing acrobatics), of the carrion crawler-towed dungeon cleaning machine, of a thaumo-mechanical track faker, and of the deadly djinn-built gymnasium of doom.

[Jimp]

A big box with dancing lights and a different ghost sound for each track.

[Starsinger]

At Dex 0 this bard of yours wouldn't be able to move at all. What instrument is he meant to play then?

Oh it's not my bard. If I wanted a jukebox I'd just have a jukebox. As for what instrument he plays? His voice box is really a magi-tech phonograph.

[Dragonmuncher]

What about a box imbuned with Ghost Sound (infinite per day) with a copper piece as a material componant? The user simply has to focus on what they want to hear, and it plays that. After the person purchasing the song stops playing the tune in their head, it plays that a few more times. Then, the copper piece is transported to the PC (or somewhere else, at least).

I really like this, actually.