After much bullshitting and joking, my group is finally running a heavy metal themed oneshot.
An up-and-coming metal band made of traditional metal-head fa/tg/uys, finally gets a big break opening for a real band. After the show, partying with the band amidst to groupies and booze, a strange old roady, in a trailing coat completely made of band patches, hands a dusty tome to your band, promising them to learn the heaviest lyrics, and the truth of metal from it.
The party goes on, and the band passes out, only to wake up in a new world. A darker world. A METAL world.
Using their /tg/ knowledge, cargo van full of weapons, pyrotechnics and amps, and mystically enhanced skills, they must journey through these brutal lands, mastering the arts of music, and bringing metal to the people, all while writing some kickass lyrics based on their journeys.
Who's played similar? Quest suggestions?
Dumping pics.
Related links:
>BRUTAL LEGEND MYTHOLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcPm-MQiCQ8
>HAIL AND KILL
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Setting:Hail_and_Kill
>HEAVY MYTHRIL
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Setting:Heavy_mythril
>>46822294
In the beginning, there was the world, and there were the ancient ones.
The Ancient Ones ruled the cold, dark earth and all that eked a living on it with the raw entropy. The act of survival was the only one, and many turned to these foul powers in worship to siphon it off for their own use. The three faces of the Ancient Ones were Death (the shadowy devourer), Black (The frozen end of all things) and Doom (the unquiet stillness). There were only those men who bound themselves to such powers, and those who tried to avoid and survive.
After some time, three paragons of these survivors arose. Through superhuman strength and leadership, they found that man has its own power and they called it Metal. These three scions rose to godhood, leading man against the Ancient ones and their servants. They no longer just survived, but flourished. The three were Power (the light that banishes the darkness), Folk (the warmth of the heart of man), and Speed (the wind that runs). They led man to carve out their own lands, and fight to this day.
(con't)
>>46822294
Fuck yes! I was hoping to see these treads again.
>>46822441
Music is the spirit of Metal, no matter for good or ill. Men of both sides and the beings of the world all use music to shape aspects of their lives. Herd beasts bellow baselines the swiften their metallic hooves, predators stun their prey with distorted bellows, and man alone created instruments to mimic the power of the gods and creatures.
Given time, all things come to harmony; even the most discordant static of a Industrialite will sync with the rest of the electric whine of its hive. Because of this, some people finds those who meet their tempo, and an instant bond is formed, combining their individual skills and powers into something more... The Band.
Bands are the great adventurers of the Metal Realm. They explore, they create, they fight and they are hailed as heros or villains by those drawn and affected by their music. No one knows how these form, only that they are the ones most likely to shape the world, and that band changing is a monumental occasion. Wary are those who see a band break up, or changes in a Band- such consequences can be great...
>>46822499
Awesome
>>46822501
All these godheads get a domain. Folk metal gets fire, to counter Black metal's frost. Death metal gets Shadow magic, and fire is NOT their power, they just use torches as part of their rituals to create light... because without light, there is no shadow.
All three of the Ancient ones represent not evil, just the natural cycle. That said, mother nature is a salty cunt.
The shadowy Devourer of Death Metal is actually a god of life, as he embodies consumption. The blackness covers and absorbs all, even light, so it may continue- just as life consumes other life so it may survive. Obviously, he grants shadow magic.
The Frozen End of All things and its Black metal, likewise is the next step in the natural cycle: Death. The warmth of life devoured by the Shadow, leaves only cold flesh, and the chill winds are the power of its worshipers.
The final of the three, the Unquiet Death- Represents not only undeath, but rebirth. Deer eats grass- wolf eats deer- dead wolf nourishes the grasses soil ad infinitum. The Unquiet Death grants his followers control over this, with power of life and undeath.
Many scholars also note, as the cycle of Life-Death-Rebirth that is represented by Death-Black-Doom Metal, so do their names reflect the proceeding God. Black metal follows death metal, though death metal controls darkness. Doom metal follows Black metal, though the doom of death is only temporary to them. Death metal follows Doom metal, though in truth, it is about being alive.
(con't)
>>46822581
The three Scion-gods of the freemen are not of the natural order. They struggled against the chains of the cycle, and broke free in glorious humanity. They each serve a separate facet of man's desires and do not create a seamless cycle as the Ancient ones do. They represent everything against the Ancient Ones, and while they benefit mankind now, may end up destabilizing the world.
But who cares? They are what keeps the free people of man strong against the dark.
Power Metal, The Strength of light, is the foe of Death Metal's Shadow. Light pierces and banishes the Darkness, and summons storms and lighting to blow away the shadow.
The warmth of the heart of man is Folk metal. It is the comradeship and warmth of the free clans, and intrinsic to the birth of cities. Fire keeps Black Metal's chill at bay.
Last is the wind that runs past the stillness- Speed metal. Man taming the bike-beasts and creating hotrods allowed him to escape Doom Metal's aspect of rebirth. Speed Metal grants powers over avoiding rebirth/undeath through knitting the flesh and repairing machines.
>>46822633
Bump?
>>46822959
Lurking. Hoping for more.
>>46822294
>Kiss facepaint
This triggers me. If you go through the work of drawing a fucking picture, take three minutes and google the word. It's not like the actual name for it is any less funny.
>>46822294
Hiya there, Gropey.
First, you're probably the only non-cancerous tripfag. Keep up the good work.
Second, do you have the rest in the series of images like the OP? Just wondering.
>>46823484
Same here.
>>46822959
>>46823484
Back, sorry.
>>46823529
>Itsajoke.jpg
And corpse paint is less funny.
>>46823597
Link is at the bottom of the pic. Yourscenesucks.com
>>46823674
>>46823696
>>46823733
>>46823674
>>46823696
>>46823733
>>46823813
I wish this game wasn't copyrighted to fuck, so people could actually develop it into something good. So much great art was wasted on that steaming pile of Tim Schafer's downfall.
>>46823847
Same. I wish that they didn't shoehorn the strategy parts either, and I say this as an RTS fan. Keep the pitched battles, but make it more "Kingdom under fire" or "dynasty warriors".
Supposedly, they are working on a sequel. I just wish they'd let the IP open for an RPG or comic series.
>>46823977
Pick a metal album you enjoy. Every song is a different quest/subquest. Concept albums might be better for this.
>>46824675
Ahhhhh shit. How awesome would a Blood Mountain campaign be.
>>46824675
>Pick a metal album
>a metal album
>one
Shit
>>46824675
>>46824778
>>46824797
Yeah, but metal is such a wide genre, it would be a shame to trap onself into a single album, when the scope is naturally supposed to be epic.
>>46824890
You make a very good point.
I did this once, wanted to make a setting based off a few metal genres, it got out of control and I'm still writing it all up, but here's the basis:
The far, far northern rim of the world is a jet black, ragged hellscape of crushing silence and monstrous growls that emanate from the air itself. Towering black trees, sky-flung mountains and permafrost. Demons of the most base evil stalk this realm, as well vicious barbarian hordes bent on committing slaughter in the name of the idea of evil. A foul wind blows down from the void here and washes over the land beyond it.
Beyond this, an epic land of mighty oceans, mountains, tundra and warriors and elemental wizards, great keeps of feasting and tales of glory and doom, mighty high kings and sorcerer-lords hail from here, raiding clans who live in ice-castles battle with wandering horrors of the eternal night land of the far north.
Beyond this, a solemn but glorious land of virtuous knights, ancient kings, wizardry, learning, old pagans and mystical beings in the far places. There are dungeons and forgotten keeps, abandoned wizard towers and more from elder empires long forgotten.
Beyond this, a strange land of twisted badlands and deserts where an unearthly drone floats on the air, secret rites are practiced by wizards who indulge in the yellow lotus and monolothic ur-cities jut from the swirling devil-sands.
Beyond this, finally, at the bottom of the world, is where the far northern winds settle and fester eternal, a blood-drenched death labyrinth-temple where rites of desecration are practiced by mad cannibal cults in sweltering underground jungles whose carnivorous plant-life is fed by occult run-off from sacrifices to the blistering sun which scorches the bare stone and carpets of bones from aeons of slaughter.
Black Metal, Viking Metal, Heavy Metal, Doom Metal, Death Metal
>>46822294
>hands a dusty tome to your band, promising them to learn the heaviest lyrics, and the truth of metal from it.
>The party goes on, and the band passes out, only to wake up in a new world.
Get your FFTA bullshit out of /tg/.Just fucking with you, bump.
As always, Gropey is based.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2GIiOsuDRFk
>>46825751
A great song, one of the funniest South Park episode's, and Heavy Metal is a fucking amazing movie.
What about the mythos surrounding other genres? What about, say, Progressive Metal? I mean, it would obviously be a creation of man, as anything that math-y is a rebellion against the natural order. Would their domain be Logic, as a representation of mathematics?
KISS Psycho Circus could be a great source of inspiration for a metal inspired setting
KISS themselves in the comic are The Four Who Are One ancient primordial entities of unimaginable cosmic power capable of manifesting on earth via avatars
>>46827311
>>46825506
FFTA was fucking awesome. Fite me IRL faggort.I honestly didn't even think of that! I am sure the characters are going to totally love the metal realm though
>>46825751
FUCK YES.
>>46827181
Im trying to keep it classic. Maybe touch a little on Industrial and Prog as side things.
Essentially, think of "looks bitching air brushed on the side of a van" fighting "corpse paint necromancers "
>>46827342
>>46827311
Wow. Thats fucking crazy. I was going to use a lot of Requim the Vampire Knight meets Brutal Legend. Got a link for download?
>>46827528
Only a torrent
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:87c22bc3d2f53cf4a11031a27c6f493d7a88e8ff&dn=kiss+comics&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fglotorrents.pw%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce
>>46828263
Damn. Can"t torrent on my phone :(
thanks though!
>inb4 MYFAROG
>>46828402
No problem if you get the chance I would check out the comic its weird stupid and filled with 90's era Image goodenss
the first couple issues are a little shaky but things pickup around issue 4
>>46828433
How about no?
>>46828585
Will do. Hopefully its still up when I can get to a comp.
>>46827181
>Progressive Metal
Wizard types obsessed with technicity and insane reality-warping riffs
>Death Metal
obviously, something along the lines of a dark paladin, bladed guitar and battle necromancy
>Black Metal
Shamans that call unto the Darkness to quake the ground and drain the world of life
>Grindcore
Mindless barbarians whilring around in a craze of gore and steel
>Hair Metal
Bard types with the CROTCH TO MATCH, sick charisma bonus from fabulous hair and armor that increases with the tightness of the pants
Headbang attacks would be pretty sweet (whipping enemies with razor sharp hair or generating trails of fire)
Drummers can use enemies as drums, effectively dual-wielding maces, or summon drum kits that allow them to act as support
Each band member might have a posse of crazed groupies ready to kill and die in their name
>>46831832
Dunno about hair metal, Hair Metal is more suited to a different path, bard is too simple, it neglects what the real backbone of those bands is: wealth, and lots of it, if anything, Hair Bands because of their immensely rich connections to the Glamrock Dynasty would be better suited to something akin to mech pilots. That would play up a more fitting sense of character.
Alternative justification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHcrrX0dYLo
>>46832071
I was making this up on the fly and maybe focusing on exterior aspects
Mech pilots sounds like it would cause balance issues
And evidently, players are allowed to homebrew skillsets and fluff by creating their own sub-sub-sub-sub-genre
Also with enough groupies or entranced mortals under your control, you can unleash devastating moshpits and walls of death
The Fates of the setting...
Seems fitting, even though I made it for another thread
Needs some kind of industrial metal realm too. Giant foundries as far as the eye can see.
>>46825491
>Beyond this, a strange land of twisted badlands and deserts where an unearthly drone floats on the air, secret rites are practiced by wizards who indulge in the yellow lotus and monolothic ur-cities jut from the swirling devil-sands.
No way. Doom metal is the thickest, darkest swamp imaginable. Think of the Swamp of Sadness from the Neverending Story turned to 11.
>>46832175
and giant electrical pylons flashing arcs of thunder above rivers of black oil, enormous pistons hammering pieces of METAL into deadly implements in the distance
Platoons of paramilitary goths with neon gasmasks waving suspiciously vintage german flags and comitting mass suicide by uncontrolled arsenic aerosol and lack of understanding of toxicology
>>46832196
seconding this
Tar covered trolls and wingless dragons creeping in the black mud
I'd say a lot of Ayy Lmao fuckery (the spooky kind)
>>46822294
Don't know if you already know the game, but I feel like it's exactly what you're looking for.
>>46832657
good job on not reading the rest of the thread
>>46832675
>>46832657
literally the opening post
>>46832657
Illiteracy is a serious problem.
>>46832675
>>46832709
>>46832717
Now I feel stupid. And also illiterate.
>>46832738
shh, it's going to be alright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM9PUegDRz8
Now contribute
Why is metal always reduced to Black, Death, and Manowar in the public eye?
How about some good shit like Black Sabbath, the Obsessed or High on Fire?
>>46832957
I think everyone knows Black Sabbath, even those who aren't particularly interested. You know, Ozzy Osbourne is quite a famous guy.
>>46832757
Okay. Contributan some songs, if it helps.
Death:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa6mLESJKj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWTJSkSqNmY
Thrash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAs_BT-qPeU&index=3&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8th5LnfgxY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_-oX4js30c
Power:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQQBBmp1zdI&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVBWjTTa-NA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43YGAzRR3Dw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgLz4yBIiBs
>>46832998
I'm ok with turning this into a music thread but that might go wildly off topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=990kTjelehg
Also inserting Stoner Metal afficionados as mad-max style degenerates would be pretty sweet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnYzQsZXIRc
>>46833022
I'Mokay with this too.
Honestly though, with Brütal Legend a great setting already exists. You can either expand on it or start completely anew, but I think it will lead to BL again.
But I guess it's a good idea to bring up songs and scenarios/ideas that fit the songs.
Music for a sort of generic Heavy Metal Viking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmG9y7StBXw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3058IJnP14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THOppLHa9oQ
>>46833149
I had an idea for a scenario based on this tune :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jertf_38Pmg
A giant tiger lurks in the Forest of Sabrod, deep in the Power Lands, where fanatical paladins fight amongst themselves to crazed organ music.
Only the most brvtals of the champions would be able to rip it's heart out and fashion an alchemical amp powerful enough to tear the skies apart.
It's cheesy, but hey. Metal is.
>>46833222
>it's
I'm sorry for that
So...There's a kind of underwhelming Space Fantasy setting thread, but do ya'll want to make a Metal setting?So I can steal it all and make a Metal Island in a previous existing setting
>>46833243
Well I guess I don't mind
>>46833222
>It's cheesy, but hey. Metal is.
If you're too serious about it, you'd probably end up sending your suicidal friends bones through the mail and burning churches.
Anyway: Here's the story of a mercenary, maybe even a Landsknecht. He's a total asshole, and doesn't afraid of anything. As long as he gets good payment, he can also be your bodyguard. But the moment someone offers more gold, you're a dead man.
He spends his gold on whores and booze, and hey: Fighting in a war and getting money for that is nice (Also, it's in german)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGtFDe32jbM
>>46833358
>If you're too serious about it, you'd probably end up sending your suicidal friends bones through the mail and burning churches.
edgelords cranked up to 11
as a Landsknecht afficionado, I salute this
>/tg/ metal thread
>No Blind Guardian
>Lack of Power metal
Power Metal is fantasy: the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUlK3S_9IOo
>>46831832
>Hair Metal
>Bards
Bards is Power metal mang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHmLh92Xpm0
>>46833432
>edgelords cranked up to 11
Ye olde black metal from norway.
But anyway, here's a song in old high german:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCOCiXk6ZMM
The original text is from the 9th century, and it's about Hildebrand, a nobleman, who fought against the huns. He comes home after years of war, only to be confronted by his son, Hadubrand. His son doesn't recognise him, calls him "an old hun", and so on. Old customs demand that they both fight to death over these insults. Hildebrand is torn between fighting his son and honoring the customs of his people, but ultimately fights against Hadubrand. Later songs heavily imply that Hildebrand won, and has slain his son.
>>46822294
Their main foe is a Time Traveling Lich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3fVDCtc0OY
>>46833592
Well I'm more of a black/sludge/stoner metal kind of guy, I don't know much stuff that would apply to fantasy specifically
The adventures of Charlemagne sung by Christopher Lee are pretty cheesy
And Rhapsody of Fire, obviously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTexyI49EJs
>>46833649
>Sludge/Stoner metal
Are these just code words for metal bands with little talent?
>>46833661
ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnGBa8dVm6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvlJN7R79Ow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho88ZlrLQBk
But please, disregard all the good stuff I posted above and listen to this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBsvz4A0sG0
>>46833706
So it's just mediocre rock/metal stuff with more reverb and shitty amps?
Is this what "Metal" has gotten to now? Where the quality of the equipment makes it's own genres now?
>>46833743
you seem to be a bit flustered
maybe you should close this tab
>>46833761
Not really. I am just confused by why exactly it's called sludge/Stoner metal when all it really does is sound like very lazy prog rock.
Is that it? Is the reaosn it's called stoner metal is because it's half assed?
I mean the more traditional metal groups clearly have reasons why they have names.
Heavy metal's name comes from the heavy sound of the metalworking industry around Birmingham and the beatnik counterculture to reference heavy as a tune with a slow deep beat.
And as such we get things like Black metal from themes to do with Grim ideologies, Folk metal based on folk myths, Power metal to invoke ideas of Fantasy and energy, and so forth.
You can listen to songs from genres like that and instantly go "That's X metal"
Everything else is pointless labeling.
>>46833861
I listen to music I enjoy, labels are just a convenience
don't forget to sage your posts since we are wildly off board topic please
>>46827181
>What about the mythos surrounding other genres? What about, say, Progressive Metal? I mean, it would obviously be a creation of man, as anything that math-y is a rebellion against the natural order. Would their domain be Logic, as a representation of mathematics?
I am doing a setting that is a metal setting.
Basically it will be made in a way that I consider the only real way to do it. Like this:
1-Look the musical characteristics that form metal genres.
2-Use logic and music and writing and rpg skills to convert those characteristics to place characteristics, races characteristics, classes characteristics.
Its a wip right now (mostly because I need to find the specific characteristics that form each sub-genre), but here are some wip details.
>doom metal
When someone dies (or etc..) in a paradox, people move to ouside of reality.
Imagine an hypotetical setting where, if you do good stuff you go to heaven when you die, but if you kill an powerfull benevolent god you go to hell when you die.
Now someone start to do mind control on this god and tell him to kill people, you kill the god to help people so a good thing that will make you go to heaven but end killing the god that will make you go to hell. This paradox make the persn leave the reality when it dies.
People can make pact with those guys, unlike 3.5 binder class, you will receive only spells that dont cost mana to use.
Spells are simple stuff, they wont make you poisoned, frozen, give you a headache at the same time. But will be powerfull
The time needed to cast will be huge, but their duration will be huge, and they wont magically appear at the moment you finish casting it, they will start small and gradually increase in power, spells will also always hit as long you finish casting it. The same apply for the pacts (long duration, long time needed to cast gradually get new spells to use...)
>>46835673
The after some amount of time, guys that made the pacts will start to get depressive, this happens because the pacts know that this is way to stay real.
The songs are the spells you get with the pact, the band is the pact, the album are the group of spells you get at the same time (remember you dont get all spells at same moment the pact start, you gradually get more and more spells)
Anyway this is all based on the characteristics that form doom metal.
Now I dont know what each doom meta sub-genre would be, predidge like classes, starting templates.....?
>black metal
Will be basically some sort of cleric that worship the devils and get spells from that, unlike the binder they do stuff to continue getting spells, dont know more specific datails.
>electronic metal (or industrial metal or whateaver its called)
basically a the medieval *punk class.
I dont know the others because I need to find the specific list of characteristics that form the genres (and also their sub-genres)
>>46832133
The three mountain vampires, they got a contract with the lords of hell and now protect the flamming mace of destruction. They entered the contract ages ago because it promissed eternal youth and wealth, but now they are eternally locked into the isle of the burning sun, where skeleton samurais fly old airplanes and attack people by crashing the thing like drop pods before charging with rusted, yet sharp, katanas. Your quest is to go there, fight the samurais, kill the vampires (or take then to your women hoard you maintain over your mamooth mount) and then steal the mace of destruction, a big fucking tetsubo like bat with spiky studs all over it.
>>46824675
>tfw your party will never be the Astral Knights fighting alongside Angus McFife XIII
>tfw you will never FLY HIGH THROUGH APOCALYPSE SKIES
>>46836195
>An island of zombie samurai ruled over by vampires
FUCK YEAH
>>46836195
That's awesome!
>>46836382
>>46836505
You just take something, and throw as much cheese and awesome into it you can. It doesnt need to make much sense, as long as its cool. Just... remember when you were a kid and the campaign of awesome will come easily.
As an example, last play with my little 6 yo sister was:
A giant princess in a horseless carriage and her guard, an orc with a raygun riding a flying motorcicle needed to leave the body of the princess deceased husband, a pirate skeleton, into the mound of resting, where the dead sleep. (She came with the name)
But then, a inteliggent dinossaur stopped the procession and fought for the body, snatching it fromt eh hands ofthe princess and turning it into a skeleton king, who rode a dragon against the princess castle in revenge for his own death.
So now, the princess and the orc need to go to the mound of resting, rest there and then pass the red mountain to go back to the castle.
The moment of glory was when the orc dude motorcicle broke because of a dragon, and he hold ground in the red mountain using his destroyed vehicle as an barricade shooting dragonmen holding clubs while the princess tried to repair the thing up.
Just throw common sense away and do what you think its cool.
Power - Sorcerrer or Paladin
Trash - Fighter
Glam/Hair - Bard
Industrial - Artificer
Grind - Barbarian
Death - Cleric
Black - Druid
Progressive - Wizard
Acapella - Monk
Groove - Rogue
