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I recently made a list of songs, chosen for the fact that their lyrics could serve as ideas for adventures for role-playing games.

Lookin for Adventure, or Whatever Comes Our Way:Adventure ideas from song lyrics

The title of this table is from 'Born To Be Wild' by Steppenwolf.The listed band or singer is whoever most famously sung it - they didn't necessarily write it.

Roll 2 dice, 1 at a time.

1,1 Renegade priests, and treacherous young witches. Bob Dylan Changing of the Guard

1,2 Merchants and thieves, hungry for power. Bob Dylan Changing of the Guard

1,3 The cities are on fire with the burning flesh of men. Bob Dylan Death is Not the End

1,4 The killing moon will come too soon. Echo and the Bunnymen The Killing Moon

1,5 The negroes in the forest, brightly feathered. The Doors The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)

1,6 She has robes and she has monkeys Lazy diamond-studded flunkies. The Doors Love Street

2,1 Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain. The Doors The End

2,2 Hellhound on my trail. Robert Johnson Hellhound On My Trail

2,3 You strike my side by accident as you go down for your gold. Leonard Cohen Avalanche

2,4 When I am not this hunchback that you see I sleep beneath the golden hill. Leonard Cohen Avalanche

2,5 All hands on deck at dawn sailing to sadder shores. Echo and the Bunnymen Ocean Rain

2,6 Home of pirates, drunks and whores. The Simpsons cast New Orleans

3,1 Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Billie Holiday Strange Fruit

3,2 Felled his master not by chance away with pomp and circumstance. Chumbawamba Farewell to the Crown

3,3 She walks these hills in a long black veil. too many to list Long Black Veil

3,4 Little fish, big fish, swimmin in the water, come back here man gimme my daughter. P.J. Harvey Down By the Water

3,5 Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. Pink Floyd Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

3,6 Tell them a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call. Jefferson Airplane Go Ask Alice

4,1 I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests, I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans. Bob Dylan Hard Rain

4,2 Tell those men with horses for hearts. The Church The Unguarded Moment

4,3 Creatures kissing in the rain, shapeless in the dark again. The Cure The Hanging Garden

4,4 In a hanging garden change the past, in a hanging garden wearing furs and masks. The Cure The Hanging Garden

4,5 In the heat of the night the animals scream. The Cure The Hanging Garden

4,6 Fall out of the sky, cover my face as the animals die. The Cure The Hanging Garden

5,1 I passed the howling woman. The Cure The Walk

5,2 I hear your name, and I'm aflame. Ella Fitzgerald That Old Black Magic

5,3 Deep in the woods a funeral is swinging. The Birthday Party Deep in the Woods

5,4 THIS IS DWARF INVASION! Reggie and the Full Effect, Dwarf Invasion

5,5 Temple of low men. Crowded House, album title

5,6 Under a blood-red sky a crowd has gathered, black and white.U2, New Years Day

6,1 It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. REM, It's the End of the World As We Know It

6,2 Sleep comes like a drug in God's country. Sad eyes, crooked crosses in God's country. U2, In God's Country

6,3 Set me alight We'll punch a hole right through the night Every day the dreamers die See what's on the other side.U2, In God's Country

6,4 Dreamed I saw a desert rose Dress torn in ribbons and in bows Like a siren she calls to me.U2, In God's Country

6,5 All the vampires walking through the valley Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Free Fallin'

6,6 Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage. Smashing Pumpkins, Bullet With Butterfly Wings

(all this and more at www.apolitical.info/webgame/tables)
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