Mentat is currently playtesting Music Wars Alpha (Beta has more magic in it). Its a post-apocalyptic world where radio stations and their music lists provided the nucleus for society to partially re-coalesce.  So you have major nations such as Rock and Roll, Jazz, Rap, Classic, Country, Celtic, One-Hit Wonders, Praise and Worship, Extreme (the music for snowboarders and bungee cord enthusiasts), and a terrorist faction for Death Metal.

I'm not that well versed, at all, in most music.

In this world, playing music by a DJ or other magician tends to be at the least a magic spell for raising morale, and for some DJ's its more (Alpha is mostly plausible deniability magic, and Beta is much more obvious ).

So anyone want to contribute song suggestions for each group (possibly with the group that sings them)?

PT

Rock

http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie...s/best_songsddd.html

Country

http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie...st_countrysongs.html

Worship

http://stillsearching.wordpres...p-songs-of-all-time/

Jazz

http://www.ontheradio.net/songs/top/jazz.aspx

Classic
http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie...st-classic-symp.html

Rap

http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.../best_rap-songs.html

Celtic

http://home.cinci.rr.com/terry...enship/bouzouki.html

Heavy Metal

http://www.gamingupdate.com/fo...howthread.php?t=7510

(Celtic was hard to find but that was the best I could do.)
This message was last edited by the player at 15:03, Tue 16 Sept 2008.

Wow. Thanks.

You are now the proud possessor of one brownie point with walnuts on top. I'm not sure what you can do with it, but it looks cool hanging in the aether.

PT

I have some suggestions for Death/Black Metal:

- Dimmu Borgir (means Dark Fortress in Icelandic) - http://www.google.com/musicl?l...&aid=-YxNjjrdVaN

- Stonegard - http://www.last.fm/music/Stonegard

- Satyricon - http://www.google.com/musicl?l...&aid=TTYTjmwMLeO

- Mayhem - http://www.google.com/musicl?l...&aid=WVwanx822cO

These are all Norwegian Black Metal bands with strong ties to their respective satanic communities, and their songs could probably make the skin crawl on most seniors. If the music they play were to be compared to a spell, it'd either be "Summon: Demon," "Disintegrate," or "Powerword Death."

If you read any of the lyrics you are in for a good laugh, or a big shock. It really depends on how seriously you take it.

Good enough for a terrorist faction?

You do know this means when I get around to finishing up this world that I'm going to have to make the DM's to be led by some Norwegian expats, right?

PT

That's perfectly fine with me.

Most Norwegian's are more or less insane from birth anyhow - I think it must be something left from when we ran around with pelt underpants and murdered each other with axes. In fact I'm surprised that Norway comes off as a peaceful democracy these days. The crazy genes must be having a dormant generation.