A topic I saw (Mama, Just killed a man) referenced a lyric from a Queen song and even though it was 11 pages at the time I read through and contributed to it. It got me thinking, what is the best use of a song lyric in game by either a player making an off the cuff remark about something that happened or a lyric used to inspire either an NPC or a scene in a game you've played or GM'd? I know I've made a few adventures based on a song, how about you?

Some good ideas for adventures based on lyrics.

Of course the classic, Dirty deeds done dirt cheep, works for almost any adventure in an Edge of the Empire campaign.

My favorite is of course Lawyers, Guns and Money by Warren Zevon. I've done an adventure along those lines.

The Last Rebel by Lynard Skynard is pretty good as well. It's about a soldier going home after fighting in a war.

God's Gonna Cut you Down by Johnny Cash.

God's Gonna Cut you Down by Johnny Cash.

Rusty Cage from the same could also work.

I posted this in another thread but my Campaign is heavily inspired by the song Knights of Cydonia by Muse. I've gone so far as to create a base in the Cydonian Star System in hopes that the players will player's will names their group after the titular song.

In our first adventure in this system the Politico had me grinning when he said to the thief "there must be some kind of way out of here.", don't know if that counts tough.

God's Gonna Cut you Down by Johnny Cash.

Also had to google that to find out the (interestingly older) moby version was my alarm for a few years (also folk song, didn't know that either)

Now that I think about it, most of Johnny Cash's work would fit.

A little different, but...

Long ago, in a game of Aberrant from White Wolf, I've got a game about to start, and I've run the session 0 to end with character generation. Modern super hero game so we can be pretty laid back with the names...

I ended up with Jay Giles, Dave Mustane, Peter Chris, Paul Stanley, and Mick Jones. The best part of this super group was none of them had worked this out in advance, they just sat down, filled in their sheets and had done this to themselves.

Let the bodies hit the floor definitely works for a few groups I've been in.