"Thunderstruck" | Priests of Thor |
"The Razor's Edge" | Fighters |
"Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)" | Thieves |
"Back in Black" | Thieves; maybe Death Priests |
"Highway to Hell" | any player with a "Good" DM |
"Gone Shootin'" | sharpshooters/archers |
"Walk On Water" | Characters with a Messiah complex |
"Rag Doll" | Doll golems; any nubile female character |
"Cryin'" | Real Roleplayers |
"Blind Man" | A blind NPC |
"The Other Side" | Outer-planar adventurers |
"Crazy" | Chaotic Neutrals! |
"Eat the Rich" | Beggars/Cannibals |
"Angel" | Devas/Aasimon |
"Livin' on the Edge" | Denizens of Acheron |
"Voodoo Medicine Man" | Tribal Shamans |
"Hole in My Soul" | fallen Paladins/priests |
"Out of Sight, Out of Mind" | Illusionists; Psionicists |
"Chromatic Death" | Tiamat! |
"Among the Living" | undead |
"Criminal" | Thieves |
"Sleep to Dream" | Psionicists |
"Shadowboxer" | Shadows |
"Army of Me" | clones |
"It's Oh So Quiet" | priests with silence spell |
"The Wizard" | Um...wizards? |
"N.I.B." | Demons |
"Paranoid" | Real Roleplayers |
"Lord of This World" | Egotistical Bards |
"Faeries Wear Boots" | Faeries and Elves |
"Supernaut" | Planewalkers |
"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" | Priests of Cyric |
"Black Sabbath" | any evil priest |
"War Pigs" | Orcs! |
"Iron Man" | Iron Golems |
"Tomorrow's Dream" | Prophets |
"Changes" | Polymorph spells |
"Children of the Grave" | any undead |
"Am I Going Insane?" | characters with lycanthropy |
"Snowblind" | arctic characters |
"Veteran of the Psychic Wars" | Psionicists |
"I Am the Storm" | Priest of Thor |
"Don't Fear the Reaper" | Necromancers/Adventurers in general |
"Godzilla" | Gargantuas (lizard-type) |
"Burnin' for You" | Invokers and Fire Elementals |
"Run-Around" | Quicklings |
"Hook" | Hook Horrors |
"Lay Your Hands on Me" | Paladins |
"You Give Love a Bad Name" | Enchantresses |
"Keep the Faith" | Priests; Paladins |
"Living On a Prayer" | Priests |
"Wanted Dead or Alive" | Thieves |
"Something for the Pain" | Priests |
"Machinehead" | Tinker gnomes |
"Everything Zen" | Priests |
"Glycerine" | Alchemists |
"Alien" | Spelljammers |
"Swallowed" | Purple Worm!!! |
"Greedy Fly" | any BEM (Bug-Eyed Monster) |
"Little Things" | facing an army of 1 HD monsters |
"Monkey" | Carnivorous Apes! |
"Swallowed" | Purple worms |
"Insect Kin" | Thri-kreen/Tohr-kreen |
"Cold Contagious" | Otiluke's freezing sphere or Cone of cold |
"A Tendency to Start Fires" | fire elementals |
"Distant Voices" | Clairaudience |
"Bloodletting" | lycanthropy or vampirism victims |
"Darkening of the Light" | You say you use Ravenloft? |
"I Don't Need a Hero" | Haughty NPCs |
"Tomorrow Wendy" | PC's lover has been incurably poisoned |
"Sun" | daybreak, PCs survived to watch the sun rise in terror |
"Roses Grow" | PCs in a bar |
"Zombie" | Survivors of war |
"Linger" | Romantic real-roleplayers |
"Dreams" | Psionicists |
"Salvation" | Priests/paladins who've done wrong |
"Free to Decide" | mages with free action |
"Ode to My Family" | mouthy Bards |
"Am I Evil?" | red-robed wizards |
"It's Electric" | lightning bolt, shocking grasp, etc. |
"The Prince" | the rulers of Hell! |
"Sucking My Love" | Faerie Dragons |
"Helpless" | NPC retainers |
"Streets of Gold" | greedy adventurers |
"Shoot Out the Lights" | show-off archers |
"Waited Too Long" | mages with bad timing |
"From Out of Nowhere" | Teleporters |
"Epic" | DMs that run 10-month campaigns |
"Falling to Pieces" | Damaged automatons |
"Surprise! You're Dead!" | Newly created vampires |
"Zombie Eaters" | Ghouls and ghasts |
"The Real Thing" | Thieves |
"Underwater Love" | Sea elves |
"The Morning After" | Any character with memory lapses |
"War Pigs" | Orcs! |
"Edge of the World" | Virtually everyone |
"Last Cup of Sorrow" | failed the poison save! |
"Silver Springs" | immortals; sad bards |
"Tusk" | Orcs! |
"Don't Stop" | Prophets; clairvoyants |
"Gold Dust Woman" | Caryatid Columns |
"All Along the Watchtower" | guards, thieves, jokers, princesses (listen to the song) |
"Purple Haze" | Illusionists; insane characters |
"The Wind Cries Mary" | Banshees |
"Supervixen" | female characters |
"Only Happy When It Rains" | depressed Bards |
"As Heaven is Wide" | Devas |
"Fix Me Now" | damaged golems |
"Milk" | Minotaurs! |
"Stupid Girl" | last words spoken to many female players |
"Queer" | Munchkins ;) |
"#1 Crush" | obsessive Bards |
"Robbery, Assault and Battery" | thieves |
"Whodunnit?" | assassins |
"Guide Vocal" | anyone running a training hall |
"Watcher of the Skies" | dragons |
"The Battle of Evermore" | Fighters (good AL) |
"You Shook Me" | Earth Elementals |
"Your Time is Gonna Come" | Clerics/Paladins/Rangers who've done evil |
"Stairway to Heaven" | Devas |
"Swamp Music" | Lizard Men |
"I Ain't the One" | Thieves |
"Double Trouble" | Mirrors of Opposition! ;) |
"Free Bird" | Aaracockra/Retiring adventurers |
"That Smell" | Necromancers |
"Dark Avenger" | Antipaladins |
"Battle Hymn" | Fighters |
"Defender" | Paladins |
"Holy War" | Specialty Priests (especially Tempus) |
"Black Wind, Fire and Steel" | Fighters |
"Hail and Kill" | Fighters |
"The Crown and the Ring" | Azoun IV (or any King) |
"Mountains" | Dwarves |
"Ride the Dragon" | Dragonlords |
"The Power of Thy Sword" | Fighters |
"Master of the Wind" | Elves |
"Until It Sleeps" | Summoners/Invokers |
"...And Justice For All" | Paladins |
"Eye of the Beholder" | guess! |
"The Four Horsemen" | Cavaliers |
"Phantom Lord" | Death Knights and Liches |
"The Shortest Straw" | Intolerant priests |
"To Live is to Die" | Undead |
"Harvester of Sorrow" | Farmers...in Ravenloft! |
"One" | wounded warriors |
"Master of Puppets" | psionicists with mind control |
"Hero of the Day" | Adventurers! |
"Enter Sandman" | wizards with sleep spells |
"The God That Failed" | followers of Myrkul or Bhaal |
"Wherever I May Roam" | all classes |
"Sad But True" | Dopplegangers |
"Nothing Else Matters" | All classes |
"Of Wolf and Man" | Lycanthropes everywhere |
"Blackened" | opponents of invokers! |
"2x4" | silence, 15' radius (listen to the song) |
"Poor Twisted Me" | Broken Ones |
"Thorn Within" | do you feel a little guilty? |
"Smells like Teen Spirit" | Battleragers! |
"Polly" (also "Polly: New Wave") | mage with familiar |
"Molly's Lips" | Rebellious Thief |
"Stain" | egotistical warrior |
"In Bloom" | Bards about bardic-wannabes |
"Territorial Pissings" | combat with territorial creatures |
"Lithium" | Priests of war deity in prayer before battle |
"Something in the Way" | the DM used a PUZZLE! :) |
"Aneurism" | the DM used a HARD puzzle! |
"On a Plain" | traveling through Thay... |
"About a Girl" | courtesans |
"Pennyroyal Tea" | stupid nobles |
"Dumb" | even more stupid nobles |
"Just a Girl" | depressed female PC |
"Spiderwebs" | Drow! |
"Don't Speak" | mages with silence spells |
"Tragic Kingdom" | just listen to the song... |
"Sunday Morning" | Dopplegangers (listen to the song...) |
"Snakes" | Yuan-ti; Nagas |
"Wonderwall" | Living Walls |
"Champagne Supernova" | anyone who drinks elverquisst or feywine |
"D'You Know What I Mean?" | Mage with tongues |
"Genocide" | Elf-haters |
"Come Out and Play" | Fighters |
"Gone Away" | Mouthy Real Roleplayers |
"Self-Esteem" | Bards with no ego |
"It'll Be a Long Time" | Long-lived PCs |
"Kick Him When He's Down" | Thieves |
"Nothing From Something" | mages with disintegrate |
"Walk On Water" | miracle workers; mages |
"No More Tears" | mouthy Bards |
"Mother Earth" | Druids |
"Steal Away the Night" | Thieves; mage with light |
"Walls" | feuding kingdoms |
"Something in the Air" | Rebels; Myconids |
"Mary Jane's Last Dance" | courtesans |
"Refugee" | um...refugees? |
"Free Fallin'" | mage that just ran out of featherfalls! |
"I Need to Know" | Diviners |
"You Got Lucky" | 1st-level characters that kill a dragon! |
"I Won't Back Down" | Real Men |
"Learning to Fly" | mages with the fly spell |
"Into the Great Wide Open" | low-wisdom Bards |
"One of These Days" | those on a quest |
"Absolutely Curtains" | after a major battle |
"Dogs" | Slaves and Servants |
"Signs of Life" | Entering a swamp |
"Dogs of War" | When the party is pursued |
"On the Turning Away" | Useful in Dragonlance towns |
"The Gnome" | Gnomes |
"It's a Kind of Magic" | Wizards |
"Princes of the Universe" | Deities |
"The Prophet Song" | Clerics |
"One Vision" | Diviners |
"The Faerie Feller's Master Stroke" | Druids; Faeries |
"Ogre Battle" | Ogres |
"Who Wants to Live Forever?" | Immortals; Demigods; Deities |
"The Miracle" | Priests |
"The Hitman" | Assassins |
"I Want It All" | treasure hunters, glory seekers, or freedom fighters |
"The Thin Line" | NG thieves; any true neutral |
"Another Rainy Night (Without You)" | Real Roleplayer Bards! |
"Empire" | Krynn minotaurs; Red Wizards |
"Resistance" | People opposing the above |
"Anybody Listening?" | self-conscious Bards |
"The Best I Can" | ambitious adventurers |
"One and Only" | monogamous Real Roleplayers |
"Losing My Religion" | Unfaithful priests |
"It's the End of the World As We Know It" | Krynn during the Cataclysm |
"Shiny Happy People" | Those damned, annoying Lawful Goods! |
"Everybody Hurts" | warriors after a major melee |
"Crush with Eyeliner" | mages studying spells |
"Man on the Moon" | Spelljammers |
"Paint It Black" | Drow |
"Sympathy for the Devil" | Devils |
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" | Thieves! |
"Gimme Shelter" | PCs with a castle |
"2112: Temples of Syrinx" | Priests |
"The Trees" | Druids |
"The Necromancer" | ...Necromancers! |
"Limelight" | Egotistical Bards |
"Tonight, Tonight" | Homesick Bards |
"Zero" | Courtesans; anyone with low self-esteem |
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" | Crack-shot halflings |
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | "Red Right Hand" | NPC villains |
Screamin' Jay Hawkins | "Frenzy" | Bulettes and Tarrasques |
Frank Black | "Man of Steel" | iron golems or maudlin Real Roleplayers |
Foo Fighters | "Down in the Park" | faerie glades |
Meat Puppets | "Unexplained" | DMs love a mystery! |
PM Dawn | "If You Never Say Goodbye" | one of the players moves away :( |
Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie | "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)" | liches or fire elementals |
"Blow Up the Outside World" | Underdark races |
"Burden in My Hand" | characters on a quest |
"Pretty Noose" | very depressed Bards |
"Spoonman" | poor Bards |
"Superunknown" | any mysterious place |
"The Day I Tried to Live" | confused Bards |
"Jesus Christ Pose" | more Messiah complexes... |
"Rusty Cage" | captured by ogres! |
"Outshined" | mages with continual light |
"If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" | Priests |
"Island of Souls" | Sailors |
"The Wild Wild Sea" | same |
"Sister Moon" | Priests/Bards |
"Consider Me Gone" | Mage/Psionicist with Dimension Door |
"Moon Over Bourbon Street" | Vampires |
"Shape of My Heart" | Diviners/Gamblers |
"The Soul Cages" | Necromancers |
"Creep" | Real Roleplayer Bards |
"Plush" | degenerate courtesans |
"Interstate Love Song" | Bards on the road |
"Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" | mouthy Real Roleplayers |
"Unglued" | Chaotic Neutrals! |
"Big Bang Baby" | mage with fireball |
"Lady Picture Show" | female players |
"Dead and Bloated" | zombies |
"What I Got" | Real Roleplayers |
"Wrong Way" | Munchkins |
"Santeria" | Diviners; Mages with crystal balls |
"Under My Voodoo" | Specialty Priests |
"Doin' Time" | Thieves :) |
"Istanbul" | Entering a foreign city |
"Minimum Wage" | At work, dreaming about playing D&D :) |
"They Might be Giants" | Bard explaining those rumbling sounds |
"Whistling in the Dark" | Drow! |
"Hot Cha" | Psionicist with psychoportation |
"Number Three" | Bards |
"I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die" | Adventurers' Theme |
"Dig My Grave" | Chaotic Neutral Characters' Theme |
"My Evil Twin" | Thieves |
"The Statue Got Me High" | Fanatic Priests |
"She's Actual Size" | Seeing a she-giant! |
"Hall of Heads" | Visiting the Cannibal Shaman :) |
"Dinner Bell" | Sloppy eaters; Adventurers without manners |
"Mammal" | Druids |
"Spider" | Drow and their captives |
"Hypnotist of Ladies" | Swashbucklers; Mages; Psionicists |
"If I Wasn't Shy" | Timid Mages |
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" | Bounty Hunters |
"Helter Skelter" (also The Beatles) | Undead Bashers |
"Van Diemen's Land" | Peasant Hero |
"Freedom for My People" | Mul Slaves in Dark Sun |
"Acrobat" | Acrobats, Bards and Thieves who moonlight as world-savers |
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" | Priests on the battlefield |
"Red Light" | Thieves pushing their luck in crime |
"MLK" | Campfire song, use carefully! |
"A Sort of Homecoming" | Paladins returning home after a quest |
"The Unforgettable Fire" | Retiring Adventurers |
"All Along the Watchtower" | guards |
"Last Night on Earth" | terminally ill Bards |
"Hot for Teacher" | Young apprentices in love! |
"Jump" | Wizards with jump |
"House of Pain" | Torturers |
"(If You Were) In My Movie" | Charlatans |
"Rock in This Pocket (Song of David)" | Pacifist Priests |
"Song of Sand" | Seafaring adventures |
"Boogie Man" | minor demons |
"More Human Than Human" | Dopplegangers |
"Astral Traveler" | Psionicists; Wizards; Priests |
"Long Distance Runaround" | campaigners ;-) |
"The Revealing Science of God" | Priests |
"The Ancient" | Sages |
"Ritual" | spellcasters |
ABWH | "Fist of Fire" | Deva; Archons; Avatars |
Jon Anderson | "Sound out the Galleon" | Spelljammer captains |
The Beatles | "Free as a Bird" | Aaracockra; flying wizards |
Pat Benatar | "The Warrior" | Fighters |
David Bowie | "Diamond Dogs" | Anyone in Dark Sun |
Chris de Burgh | "Crusader" | Paladins--again |
Cheap Trick | "I Want You To Want Me" | Succubus/Incubus |
Clannad | "Ri Na Cruinne" | an EXCELLENT Elvish mourning song |
Dead Can Dance | "Chant of the Paladin" | Paladins |
Dead Can Dance | "Garden of Zephirias" | Druids |
Deep Purple | "Fireball" | guess! |
Def Leppard | "Gods of War" | Fighter/Priests |
Dire Straits | "Brothers in Arms" | Fighters |
Dream Theatre | "Live Another Day" | Resurrected people |
Bob Dylan | "Subterranean Homesick Blues" | Gnomes |
Elvis | "Return to Sender" | mage with volley |
Elvis | "Jail House Rock" | thieves' guild after Paladin gets done |
Glass Tiger | "Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone" | All classes just before death |
Hawkwind | "The Awakening" | Priests, cyberpunk setting |
Billy Joel | "Piano Man" | Bards (of course) |
Elton John | "Club at the End of the Street" | Adventurers who buy a bar! |
Jerry Lee Lewis | "Great Balls of Fire" | Mages casting Fireball |
Barry Manilow | "I Write the Songs" | Bard with very high opinion of self |
Marillion | "Grendel" | nasty monsters |
Marillion | "Assassing" | do you need to guess? |
Brian May | "Resurrection" | Priests |
Meatloaf | "Bat Out of Hell" | pissed off vampires |
Vince Neil | "Sisters of Pain" | Specialty clerics of Loviatar |
Nine Inch Nails | "Wish" | Polymorphed Wizards? |
Pantera | "Cemetery Gates" | Necromancers |
The Police | "Wrapped Around Your Finger" | Apprentice mages, esp. enchanters |
Porno for Pyros | "We'd Make Great Pets" | Familiars/small monsters |
Real McCoy | "Another Night" | vampires |
Joe Satriani | "Hordes of Locusts" | Summoners; Priests |
Shakespeare's Sister | "Moonchild" | any werecreature |
Will Smith | "Men In Black" | Spelljammers; necromancers |
Patty Smythe | "Make Me a Believer" | priests |
Starcastle | "Lady of the Lake" | Arthurian characters |
Toto | "Hydra" | Warriors; Hydra |
Jethro Tull | "Songs from the Wood" | Druids; Bards |
Jethro Tull | "Locomotive Breath" | Dragons |
Rick Wakeman | anything from "Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" | Warriors; Wizards |
Wavestar | "Troll Valley" | Druids; Faeries; actual trolls |
Weezer | "Buddy Holly" | Bards |