101 Bard Songs
Author Unknown
| 1: AC/DC: "Thunderstruck" | -for Priests of Thor |
| 2: Bon Jovi: "Lay your hands on me" | -for Paladins |
| 3: Def Leppard: "Gods of War" | -for Fighter/Priests |
| 4: Chris de Burgh: "Crusader" | -for Paladins - again |
| 5: Queen: "It's a kind of Magic" | -for Wizards |
| 6: Dire Straits: "Brothers in Arms" | -for Fighters |
| 7: Led Zeppelin: "The Battle of Evermore" | -for Fighters (good AL) |
| 8: Rush: "Temples of Syrinx" | -for Priests |
| 9: Rush: "The Trees" | -for Druids |
| 10: Rush: "The Necromancer" | -for ... Necromancers! |
| 11: Sting: "Moon Over Bourbon Street" | -for Vampires |
| 12: Sting: "Shape of My Heart" | -for Diviners/Gamblers |
| 13: Metallica: "Wherever I may Roam" | -all classes |
| 14: Metallica: "Sad But True" | -Dopplegangers |
| 15: Metallica: "Nothing else Matters" | -All classes |
| 16: Queen: "Princes of the Universe" | -deities |
| 17: Pat Benataer: "The Warrior" | -Fighters |
| 18: Aerosmith: "Livin' on the Edge" | -Philosophers and teachers |
| 19: Glass Tiger:"Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone" | -All classes just before death |
| 20: Ac/Dc: "The Razor's Edge" | -Fighters |
| 21. Black Sabbath: "The Wizard" | -Um...wizards? |
| 22. Black Sabbath: "N.I.B." | -Demons |
| 23. nine inch nails: "wish" | -Polymorphed Wizards? :) |
| 24: Porno for Pyros "We'd make great pets" | -Familiars/small monsters |
| 25: Jimi Hendrix "Purple Haze" | - Illusionists |
| 26: David Bowie "Diamond Dogs" | - Anyone in Dark Sun |
| 27: The Police "Wrapped Around Your Finger" | - Apprentice mages, esp. enchanters |
| 28: AC/DC "Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)" | - Thieves |
| 29: Dead Can Dance: "Chant of the Paladin" | -Paladins |
| 30: Dead Can Dance: "Garden of Zephirias" | -Druids |
| 27: Blue Oyster Cult: "Veterans of the Psychic Wars" | -Psionicists |
| 28: Sting: "The Soul Cages" | -Necromancers |
| 29: Wavestar: "Troll Valley" | -Druids, Faeries, actual trolls |
| 30: Yes: "Astral Traveler" | -Psionicists, Wizards, Priests |
| 31: Yes: "Long Distance Runaround" | -campaigners ;) |
| 32: Yes: "The Revealing Science of God" | -Priests |
| 33: Yes: "The Ancient" | -Sages |
| 34: Yes: "Ritual" | -spellcasters |
| 35: Jon Anderson: "Sound out the Galleon" | -Spelljammer captains |
| 36: Rick Wakeman: anything from "Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" | -Warriors, Wizards |
| 37: ABWH: "Fist of Fire" | -Deva, Archons, Avatars |
| 38: Queen: "The Prophet Song" | -Clerics |
| 39: Queen: "One Vision" | -Diviners |
| 40: Queen: "The Faerie Feller's Master Stroke" | -Druids, Faeries |
| 41: Queen: "Ogre Battle" | -Ogres |
| 42: Queen: "Who Wants to Live Forever?" | -Immortals, Demigods, Deities |
| 43: Queen: "The Miracle" | -Priests |
| 44: Queen: "The Hitman" | -Assassins |
| 45: Brian May: "Resurrection" | -Priests |
| 46: Hawkwind: "The Awakening" | -Priests, cyberpunk setting |
| 47: Toto: "Hydra" | -Warriors, Hydra |
| 48: Dream Theatre: "Live Another Day" | -Resurrected people |
| 49: Starcastle: "Lady of the Lake" | -Arthurian characters |
| 50: Pink Floyd: "The Gnome" | -Gnomes |
| 51: Joe Satriani: "Hordes of Locusts" | -Summoners, Priests |
| 52: Manowar: "Dark Avenger" | -Antipaladins |
| 53: Manowar: "Battle Hymn" | -Fighters |
| 54: Manowar: "Defender" | -Paladins |
| 55: Manowar: "Holy War" | -Specialty Priests(especially Tempus) |
| 56: Manowar: "Black Wind, Fire and Steel" | -Fighters |
| 57: Manowar: "Hail and Kill" | -Fighters |
| 58: Manowar: "The Crown and the Ring" | -Azoun IV (or any Kings) |
| 59: Manowar: "Mountains" | -Dwarves |
| 60: Manowar: "Ride the Dragon" | -Dragonlords |
| 61: Manowar: "The Power of thy Sword" | -Fighters |
| 62: Manowar: "Master of the Wind" | -Elves |
| 63: Vince Neil: "Sisters of Pain" | -for Specialty clerics of Loviatar |
| 64: AC/DC: "Back in Black" | -for Thieves, maybe Death Priests |
| 65: AC/DC: "Highway to Hell" | -for any player with a "Good" DM |
| 66: Metalica: "Wolf and Man" (?) - | -for Lycanthropes everywhere |
| 67: Queen: "I Want it All" - | -for treasure hunters or glory seekers or freedom fighters... take your pick. |
| 68: Meatloaf: "Bat Out Of Hell" | -pissed off vampires |
| 69: Elvis: "Return to Sender" | -mage w/volley |
| 70: Elvis: "Jail House Rock" | -thieves guild (after Paladin gets done) |
| 71: Cheap Trick "I Want You To Want Me" | -Succubus/incubus |
| 72: Billy Joel "Piano Man" | -Bards (ofcourse) |
| 73: Barry Manalow "I write the songs" | -Bard with very high opinion of self |
| 74: AC/DC: "The Razor's Edge" | -Fighters |
| 75: "Ri Na Cruinne"--Clannad | -(an EXCELLENT elvish mourning song) |
| 76: Bob Dylan "Subterranian homesick blues" | -Raftaman the Gnome |
| 77: Led Zepplin "You Shook me" - | -Earth Elementals |
| 78: Led Zepplin "Your Time is Gonna Come" - | -Clerics/Paladins/Rangers who've done evil |
| 79: Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls of Fire" - | -Mage's casting Fireball |
| 80: Genesis: "Robbery, Assault and Battery" | -thieves |
| 81: Marillion: "Grendel" | -nasty monsters |
| 82: Genesis: "Whodunnit?" | -assassins |
| 83: Genesis: "Guide Vocal" | -anyone running a training hall! |
| 84: Genesis: "Watcher of the Skies: | -dragons |
| 85: Marillion: "Assassing" | -do you need to guess? |
| 86: Blue Oyster Cult: Veteran of the Psychic Wars | - Psionicists |
| 87: Blue Oyster Cust: I am the storm | - Priest of Thor |
| 88: AC/DC: Highway to Hell | - Any Evil Priest |
| 89: Deep Purple: "Fireball" | -guess! |
| 90: U2: "All along the watchtower" | -guards |
| 91: Patty Smyth: "Make me a Believer" | -priests |
| 92: Shakespears Sister: "Moonchild" | -any werecreature |
| 93: Jethro Tull: "Songs from the Wood" | -Druids, Bards |
| 94: Jethro Tull: "Locomotive Breath" | -Dragons |
And some other songs of interest
U2
- I still havn'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 Darksun
- Acrobat - Acrobats, Bards and Thieves who moonlite as world-savers
- Sunday Bloody Sunday - Priests on the battlefield
- Red Light - Thieves pushing their luck in crime
- MLK - Campfire song, use carfuly!
- A Sort of Homecoming - Paladins returning home after a quest
- The Unforgetable Fire - Retiring Adventurers :-)
Pink Floyd
- One of these Days (Meddle) - Those on a Quest
- Absolutely Curtains (Obscured...)- after a major battle
- Dogs (Animals)- Slaves and Servents
- Signs of Life (MLoR) - Entering a swamp
- Dogs of War (")- When the party is persued
- On the Turning Away (")- Useful in Dragon Lance towns
Concrete Blonde
- bloodletting - lycanthropsy or vampirism victims
- Darkening of the light - You say you use Ravenloft?
- i don't need a hero - Haughty NPCs
- tomorrow Wendy - PCs lover has been incurably poisoned
- Sun - daybreak, PCs survived to watch the sun rise in terror
- Roses Grow - PCs in a bar
Nirvana
- Smells like Teen Spirit - Battleragers of course
- Polly (also Polly: New Wave) - mage with familiar
- Molly's Lips - Rebelious Thief
- Stain - Egotistical Warrior
- In Bloom - Bards about bardic-wanna-be's
- Territorial Pissings - Combat with territorial creatures
(trolls, golems, giants especialy)
- Lithium - Priests of war dietiy in prayer before battle
- Something in the way - the DM used a PUZZLE! :)
Suzanne Vega
- Blood makes noise - NOT THE FELAME PCs GET RAPED THREAD AGAIN!
- (If you were) in my movie - Charlatens
- Rock in this pocket (song of David) - Pacifist Priests
- Song of sand - seafaring adventures
Enya
- Any of 'em - Priests
Enigma
- Same as Enya
Sting
- If I ever lose my faith in you - Priests
- Island of Souls - Sailors
- The Wild Wild Sea - Same
- Sister Moon - Priest/Bard
- Consider me gone - Mage/Psion with Dimention Door
They Might Be Giants
- Istambul - 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 - Psion with psycoportation
- 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 Canibal Shamen :)
- Dinner Bell - Sloppy Eaters, Adventurers w/o Manners
- Mammal - Druids
- Spider - Drow and their captives: High Elves
- Hypnotist of Ladies - Swashbucklers, Mages, Psions
- If I Wasn't Shy - Timid Mages