Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Rock Gods

When I was first getting started playing D&D, the friend who got me started, God curse his soul, I might have done something with my life, mentioned having played with a person by the name of Mitch Wong. This would be wholly unremarkable if it were not for the description of the world in which this game to place. In Mitch's world KISS were gods, and things like the Stairway to Heaven existed. Yes, Gene Simmons, AKA Demon, a god.

This really struck me as how the game should be played. Your world was what you made, and you invented it. Everything was invented. Of course you had your orcs and goblins, but if you had a powerful wizard NPC named Jimmy Page so be it!

I really like this idea. Sadly I never met Mitch Wong, and so did not get to play in his world, which may have ruined the experience, as is I have the perfect vision of it. Of course it made me think I should mine the world of rock for some names and inspirations, drawing heavily on my high school era listening habits this would include a lot of Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Yes, and Led Zeppelin.

A few of my favorite ideas are The Flaming Telepaths, and Harvester of Eyes. These are from Blue Oyster Cult. Heck, Blue Oyster Cult is a great name. Angus Young, or maybe Angus the Younger could be a good name for a dwarf.

I put sons of Kyuss on the list, which I suppose isn't fair, because the band took the name from the monster manual.

Here is a list of things that sounded good.


  • The eye of the tiger -
  • The stairway to heaven -
  • Black diamond -
  • Maxwells silver hammer -
  • Cold as ice -
  • Blinded by the light -
  • The atomic punk -
  • Child star -
  • Demon named Gene Simmons -
  • The demon - 
  • The starchild -
  • The catman -
  • The spaceman -
  • Buckethead -
  • Iron man -
  • War pigs -
  • Fairies in boots -
  • Children of the grave -
  • Sweet leaf -
  • Electric funeral -
  • Sabra cadabbra -
  • Spiral architect - 
  • Planet caravan -
  • Into the void - 
  • Black sabbath -
  • Supernaut -
  • Neon Knights -
  • Beyond the wall of sleep -
  • End of the beginning - 
  • Children of the sea -
  • Lord of this world -
  • Wheel of confusion -
  • NIB -
  • Headless cross -
  • Hand of doom -
  • Lady evil -
  • Methademic -
  • Pyschophibia -
  • Nightmare -
  • Sleeping village - 
  • Supertzar -
  • The shining -
  • The wizard -
  • The writ -
  • The reaper -
  • Godzilla -
  • Veteran of the psychic wars -
  • Last days of May -
  • Flaming telepaths -
  • ETI (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) -
  • Fire of unknown origin -
  • Screaming diz busters -
  • Transmaniacon -
  • The great sun jester -
  • Black blade -
  • Dancin in the ruins -
  • Harvester of eyes -
  • The red and the black -
  • The revenge of Vera Gemini -
  • Joan Crawford -
  • The old God returns -
  • Stone of love -
  • Eyes on fire shadow of California -
  • Dragon lady -
  • Stairway to the stars -
  • Workshop of telescopes -
  • Subhuman - 
  • Ice dog -
  • Mes dames Sarat -
  • Cagey cretins -
  • Tattoo vampire -
  • Highway star -
  • Smoke on the water -
  • Child in time -
  • Son of aleric -
  • Sons of kyuss -
  • Accumulator
  • Altair
  • Angel of death - assimar
  • Arioch - God of
  • Angel of life - assimar
  • Avante -
  • Black corridor
  • Black elk speaks
  • Blood of the earth
  • Blue dreamer
  • Brainbox pollution
  • Conjurarion of magnu
  • Cymbeline
  • Deep vents
  • Demented man
  • Devilish dirge
  • Diana park
  • Diamond ring
  • Dragon song
  • Dreaming city
  • Dust of time
  • Dying seas
  • Eedea karan
  • Forge of Vulcan
  • Gaga in the egg
  • Goat willow
  • Golden void
  • Green finned demon
  • Gremlin
  • Hall of the mountain grill
  • Horn of destiny
  • Horn of fate
  • Jack of shadows
  • Kadu flier
  • Kapal
  • Karnac
  • Keri crawler
  • Latu
  • Lord of light
  • Lord of hornets
  • Luxotic
  • Magnu
  • Mask of morning
  • Mirror of illusion
  • Moonglum
  • Morpheus
  • Mutation zone
  • Phetamine
  • Reptoid
  • As kings sentinel
  • Gax and Agax
  • Electric warrior
  • Planet queen
  • Bang a gong
  • Zip gun
  • Cosmic