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]

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 :)