Sunday, September 13, 2020

A GLOG Bard Genre: The Lizard Wizard

Lexi's Bard class is very fun, but I've felt like there's only a couple of genres available to it, and that's a shame. So I've decided to be the change that I want to see in the world, and create my own, starting with one themed around one of my favorite bands, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Is starting with one of my favorite bands self-indulgent, self-absorbed, self-masturbatory, and all other kinds of "self"? Yes. Do I care? No. So here's a genre with a song from each of their albums.

Your average Lizard Wizard bard
Your average Lizard Wizard bard


       Perk: Seamless Transition: You can choose to instantly end one song and switch to another while keeping the previous Intensity. You can only do this once per song.

  • Tomb/Beach: For the duration of this song, you create a coffin that's exactly your size. Your music isn't muffled by it, and you can breathe fine while sealed inside. At Intensity 1, it's made of wood, at Intensity 2, it's made of stone, at Intensity 3, it's made of steel, at Intensity 4, it's made of the hardest material in your setting.
  • Danger $$$: While playing this song, you can spend 25 gp to automatically make a roll fail. At Intensity 3, you can spend 50 gp to make the roll fumble.
  • Uh Oh, I Called Mum: You call your mom and ask her three questions, the connection spanning across dimensions and the veil of death, if need be. At Intensity 1, her answers are what she would normally say, at Intensity 2, she answers with unusual wisdom, at Intensity 3, she answers with the intelligence of a great sage, and at Intensity 4, she answers as if she was the wisest, smartest creature in the world.
  • Drum Run: You and your allies move with the swiftness of the wind adding [Intensity]x30ft to your speed.
  • Head On/Pill: You cause intense psychedelic hallucinations in up to [Intensity]x3 creatures of your choice.
  • Vegemite: You create [Intensity]x5 pounds of Vegemite. The uses of this ability are limited only by your imagination.
  • I'm In Your Mind Fuzz: You reach into a person's head to change their mind. At Intensity 1, you change what they're currently thinking of, at Intensity 2 you can change how they feel about something, at Intensity 3 you can change a major motivation of theirs, and at Intensity 4, you can rewrite their entire personality.
  • The River: You and your allies become buoyant in the air for [Intensity]x10 minutes, becoming able to swim in it like water.
  • Sense: You knock some common sense into up to [Intensity] creatures, purging any overwhelming emotions and making them consider things from a more rational, kinder perspective.
  • Gamma Knife: You summon an invisible dagger of pure radiation that affects everything besides you for the duration of the song. At Intensity 1, the radiation it gives off is largely harmless, at Intensity 2, it can cause long-term cancer, mutations, and birth defects, at Intensity 3 its very presence causes headaches, nausea, and weakness, at at Intensity 4, the radiation from a single blow will cause death in a matter of days.
  • Nuclear Fusion: You turn yourself and [Intensity] allies into incorporeal spirits for the duration of the song, able to fly, and experience each other's senses.
  • Murder of the Universe: You transform yourself into a vomit elemental for the duration of the song. At Intensity 1, you stay the same size, at Intensity 2 you are the size of an ogre, at Intensity 3 you are the size of a house, and at Intensity 4, you are the size of a dragon. Also at Intensity 4, you make mental contact with Han-Tyumi, the insane, suicidal cyborg who accidentally became omnipresent in his quest to vomit, and can ask him a single question.
  • The Spider And Me: At the end of the song, you summon a single, friendly talking spider for [Intensity] hours. They will follow your commands to the best of their abilities. 
  • Crumbling Castle: At the end of the song, you take an object and rapidly accelerate it through time. At Intensity 1, the object can be the size of a dog and be affected by up to a week of relative time. At Intensity 2, it can be the size of a person, and be affected by up to a month. At Intensity 3, it can be the size of an elephant and up to a year, and at Intensity 4, it can be the size of a castle and up to a decade.
  • The Great Chain Of Being: You sow intense distrust and and hatred of tradition in all that hear your song. At Intensity 1, it can be a minor tradition among the immediate group, at Intensity 2 it can be a town-wide tradition, at Intensity 3 it can be a culturewide tradition, and at Intensity 4 it can be a massive, universal "tradition", like law or religion.
  • Plastic Boogie: For the duration of the song, you fill the lungs of [Intensity] creatures with choking microplastics, causing 1d4 damage each round as the cough and struggle to breathe.
  • Hell: You summon [Intensity]x2 pissed-off gun-toting flaming leftist paratrooper skeletons from hell for the duration of the song. They'll follow your orders, but have a fixation on killing the rich, and will turn on you if you appear too wealthy.



        Who knows, maybe in the future, I'll double down on all the selfs and make genres based off of albums.

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