I know what they're singing about!

[pyat]

velvetpage has taken a shine to some new(ish)? song by that rock and roll combo, Cold Play. The song, Viva La Vida, contains the following lyrics:

I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing
"Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!"

One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

This song is about D&D, isn't it?

Comments

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

It's a song about how D&D is a metaphor for love.

Though I must say, if I'd played more D&D games like that song when I was young, I might have grown to like the game a lot earlier.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

There is no saving throw against love, man.

What were your games like when you were younger?

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

Actually I've been meaning to post about that - haven't yet, but I'm still hoping to.

More flippantly, they didn't tend to involve missionaries and Roman cavalry choirs, nor did we tend to rule the world at any given point...

[curtana.livejournal.com]

It's the theme song for my current D&D game ;)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

What, really? That's cool. :)

[curtana.livejournal.com]

Yep, really. Well, one of the theme songs - I do tend to compile a soundtrack as I go along. This is the vaguely French Revolution-y campaign where the PCs are all members of the local antiquarian society ;)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I'd play in that!

[curtana.livejournal.com]

The logs get posted at rocksfall and we have a wiki (that needs to be updated) here (http://www.otakalypse.com/rocksfall/index.php/Diablotin_2) :)

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

Brotherhood of the Wolf? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237534/)

[curtana.livejournal.com]

Certainly one of the inspirations for the original campaign, along with "Death of the Necromancer" by Martha Wells and "The Phoenix Guards" by Steven Brust (the PCs in the first campaign were all guards...) This current campaign, set 50 years after the first, is more 19th century in feel, though the political aspects are certainly more late 18th century, and draws some further inspiration from "Melusine" by Sarah Monette, "City of Saints and Madmen" by Jeff Vandermeer, the Gentlemen Bastards sequence by Scott Lynch, some hints of Lovecraft and steampunk, the music of Paul Roland, and probably other things I'm not even aware of that have influenced me :) There are demons and evil necklaces and political shenanigans and revolutionaries and sex cults and assassinations and a flourishing criminal underworld - and in the middle are my PCs, harmless(-ish) members of the city's Antiquarian Society who are caught up in all of this.

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

Wow - boy I would have been sold on Bortherhood of the Wolf alone. I love that film.

That's an impressive pedigree. I'm envious...

[curtana.livejournal.com]

I flatter myself that it is a pretty fun campaign :)

[feywild.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[halfelf.livejournal.com]

Song of the year, too - it won a Grammy. And it's one of my favorite songs/albums at the moment. :)

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

One other thing that is... well you'll need to decide for yourself if it's good or bad... is that you can spend like... days... listening to home brewed covers of this song on Youtube. Days...

[pyat.livejournal.com]

It's okay, man. We're here for you.

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

"My god, it's full of people who wish they were stars"

[anidada.livejournal.com]

I love your brain. Other parts, too. :D

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Like his lumpy wallet?

[anidada.livejournal.com]

*is aghast*

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

Hehe, "Coldplay" is one word. You're dating yourself :P.

I'd skipped buying their latest album because X&Y (their last one) was too sleepy, but now I"m wondering if I should reconsider.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

You're dating yourself :P.

... Don't tell Erin, okay? :( She thinks I'm "just friends" with myself.

[hannahmorgan.livejournal.com]

I guess it's one of those songs that you can find all kinds of meaning in. I discovered it and fell in love with it a few months ago, and when I looked up the lyrics, the first thing I thought was "OMG! It's about Macbeth!" I was teaching the play at the time...