06-09-2017, 12:11 PM | #21 |
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Re: Examples Of -9 & -10 TDM On Singing
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06-09-2017, 12:20 PM | #22 |
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Re: Examples Of -9 & -10 TDM On Singing
Improvising a song (-2), during a full-on battle (-4), where you're using hand-to-hand against armed opponents (-2), as the enemy base blows up around you (-4), and you're prepared to die (+2).
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06-13-2017, 08:29 PM | #23 |
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Re: Examples Of -9 & -10 TDM On Singing
Sight reading a song you've never heard before against a speech jammer. (Machine playing your own voice back on a slight delay)
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06-14-2017, 07:56 AM | #24 |
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Re: Examples Of -9 & -10 TDM On Singing
Convincing the lord of the underworld to let you take your recently deceased wife back to the land of the living?
Singing the Ultimate Dark Lord to sleep so that your beloved can cut a divine relic of creation from his crown? Driving sailors mad with longing so they crash their ship on your rocks? Singing your opponent neck-deep into the ground in a battle of knowledge and song? ... just some examples from fiction and myth that popped into my head where singing was actually used in an adventuring context. Some of the latter ones probably require additional advantages. Luke |
06-14-2017, 09:04 AM | #25 |
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Re: Examples Of -9 & -10 TDM On Singing
Performing any act as Wayne and Wanda on the Muppet Show.
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Re: Examples Of -9 & -10 TDM On Singing
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I don't think these should be just -10 without any other subtle magical boost like the old Hedge Magic from S. John Ross' house rules. But I love the reminder of music from myth. On a long shot I just put your last example into Google, and it didn't give me the correct answer. But it did suggest English translations of Beowulf. Interesting metric, Google has.
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06-14-2017, 08:00 PM | #27 | |
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Re: Examples Of -9 & -10 TDM On Singing
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And there was Väinämöinen from his magic song duel with Joukahainen. From the Kalevala, a Finnish epic poem/song based on old Finnish mythology. Luke |
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06-15-2017, 01:39 AM | #28 |
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Re: Examples Of -9 & -10 TDM On Singing
I like these modifiers in particular because they could conceivably come up in a game. I, for one, admire the band attending their instruments in the midst of the hurricane.
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06-24-2017, 11:27 AM | #29 |
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Re: Examples Of -9 & -10 TDM On Singing
There was the time Dave Grohl finished a concert with a broken leg, but shock penalties max out at only -4.
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