If you like to actually sing, look up Owain Phyfe on YouTube. He was one of the greatest ren-faire musicians of all time.
Also, steal from Tolkien! There's some great songs and poems in The Lord of the Rings that could work for any fantasy setting. Game of Thrones has some good ones too...Patchface's songs could make a very creepy Dissonant Whispers.
Sometimes I describe what song my bard is singing and it will be based on RL literature. My Dwarf has a sad Dwarven ballad thatt's basically a Dwarven Romeo and Julliet. Party doesn't know the title because none of em speak Dwarvish :D.
I used songs more suited to situations than specific spells, since I wanted to use more than a couple songs over and over. I asked my party members what music they liked, and used their individual song for inspiration or healing. We usually picked current music rather than ren fair stuff, since, who says there isn't punk / hiphop / metal in the forgotten realms. I keep a doc of lyrics and youtube links I might use. If you search any song title you're pretty likely to find several lyric sites and a video or two. I found AZ lyrics good because it was easiest to copy and paste, but it is pretty rock-centric so I'd use others as well. You could use the same easily theory for tunes linked to specific spells.
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Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & -Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
I used songs more suited to situations than specific spells, since I wanted to use more than a couple songs over and over. I asked my party members what music they liked, and used their individual song for inspiration or healing. We usually picked current music rather than ren fair stuff, since, who says there isn't punk / hiphop / metal in the forgotten realms. I keep a doc of lyrics and youtube links I might use. If you search any song title you're pretty likely to find several lyric sites and a video or two. I found AZ lyrics good because it was easiest to copy and paste, but it is pretty rock-centric so I'd use others as well. You could use the same easily theory for tunes linked to specific spells.
Mercedes Lackey has a lot of songs, as does Bard from the Natural 1 channel on YouTube. I try to write some of my own stuff, but existing songs are usually the most helpful.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
My bard was in marketing before adventuring, so all his Inspirations are parodies of advertising jingles. As for spells, I just have hing sing whatever songs have lyrics evocative of the spell he’s casting. Bane = I Can’t Get No Satisfaction. Charm Person = Semi-charmed Kind of Life. The one that became his signature after a very successful usage in his first adventure was Dissonant Whispers which he cast by getting Baby Shark stuck in his target’s head.
I like little songs where you include the name of the spell in the song eg. "Wouldn't it be awesome, wouldn't it be great, if we could make no noise and simply pass without a trace."
I'm playing a Bard and would like some song verses to use while I cast or a few lines in general to use while I'm just playing an instrument.
If you like to actually sing, look up Owain Phyfe on YouTube. He was one of the greatest ren-faire musicians of all time.
Also, steal from Tolkien! There's some great songs and poems in The Lord of the Rings that could work for any fantasy setting. Game of Thrones has some good ones too...Patchface's songs could make a very creepy Dissonant Whispers.
Wizard (Gandalf) of the Tolkien Club
just tell yourself
WWWAD
what would Weird Al do?
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Sometimes I describe what song my bard is singing and it will be based on RL literature. My Dwarf has a sad Dwarven ballad thatt's basically a Dwarven Romeo and Julliet. Party doesn't know the title because none of em speak Dwarvish :D.
I used songs more suited to situations than specific spells, since I wanted to use more than a couple songs over and over. I asked my party members what music they liked, and used their individual song for inspiration or healing. We usually picked current music rather than ren fair stuff, since, who says there isn't punk / hiphop / metal in the forgotten realms. I keep a doc of lyrics and youtube links I might use. If you search any song title you're pretty likely to find several lyric sites and a video or two. I found AZ lyrics good because it was easiest to copy and paste, but it is pretty rock-centric so I'd use others as well. You could use the same easily theory for tunes linked to specific spells.
Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & - Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods
Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
didn’t you ever see 10 things I hate about you?
shakespear was totally rap/hip-hop
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Mercedes Lackey has a lot of songs, as does Bard from the Natural 1 channel on YouTube. I try to write some of my own stuff, but existing songs are usually the most helpful.
Chasing Hymnal - Tabaxi Bard - The Tale of the Pumpkin King
Enzo the Nightmaw - Human Blood Hunter, Order of the Lycan
"Dovie'andi se tovya sagain."
You could write rhymes that fit with the spell. Something like this, for Flesh to Stone, just off the top of my head:
"My words shall make,
Your muscles lock;
Doom befall you,
Turn to rock"
I know that was awful, but this kind of thing can be awesome when acting out a Bard.
Hi there! I'm a Christian musician based in Canada :)
Pull some Andrew dice clay poetry out of the archives
Now playing as an Artificer, I have explain how my spellcasting manifest, so for Light I'm gonna have a ring and say:
In brightest day, in darkest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evils might
Beware my power!, The Artificers light. 😆
Yip Roc Heresy (by Slim Gaillard) is sung but has no words. ...well... mostly no words. Most of the lyrics are semi-random phonemes.
It doesn't need to be Common necessarily. Right? You can use another language. (Just don't sing something offensive in Elvish. Someone in the party's bound to know the language.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
My bard was in marketing before adventuring, so all his Inspirations are parodies of advertising jingles. As for spells, I just have hing sing whatever songs have lyrics evocative of the spell he’s casting. Bane = I Can’t Get No Satisfaction. Charm Person = Semi-charmed Kind of Life. The one that became his signature after a very successful usage in his first adventure was Dissonant Whispers which he cast by getting Baby Shark stuck in his target’s head.
Create Bonfire - Standing outside the fire - Garth
Day of Frost - ice, ice, baby
Dimension door-A whole new world- Disney
I like little songs where you include the name of the spell in the song eg. "Wouldn't it be awesome, wouldn't it be great, if we could make no noise and simply pass without a trace."
Hello Darkness my old friend ... Darkness
There are times, when all the world's asleep ... sleep spell
Goodbye Stranger ... Dissonant Whispers
And I dreamed I was flying ... Fly or levitate spell
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt