Favourite Albums - Y

Honourable Mentions

• Yield - Pearl Jam
• You Could Have it So Much better - Franz Ferdinand
• Youth and Young Manhood - Kings of Leon

Youthanasia - Megadeth (1994)

A top quality Megadeth album, packed full of classics such as Reckoning Day, Train of Consequences and A Tout Le Monde. A Tout Le Monde is a song that I want played at my funeral, tho it's probably heresy to say this I do prefer the rereleased version with Cristina Scabbia that was on United Abominations in 2007. Please note that this superseeds any previous instruction for Wrestlemania VIII to be shown.

Aside from the famous tracks, there is some real quality here such as Elysian Fields, with its chorus of Elysian Fields... / We are storming the heavens / To raise the swords and shields / We ascend to our destiny / To the Elysian fields and Blood of Heroes with Still alive / Blood of heroes / Never die / They never die which both get spins when I'm plotting anything D&D related.

Also, I didn't realise it when I first heard it many moons ago, there is the song Victory which uses other Megadeth song titles heavily in it's lyrics.

Favourite Tracks
"Reckoning Day","Train of Consequences","A Tout Le Monde"

Under The Influence(s)

Prelude

Sea of Skulls
This actually came from an embedded rock pavement on my daily drive to work. Although, the mist lack of memory and fog came from the very first d&d adventure I played at gobbo's game night. Laying down came from the opening to Lost.

The Afterlife Bar
Inspired by the last episode of Quantum Leap.

Bar Fight
Lifted from Rescue at Rivenroar adveture.

Shadow Creatures.
Nazgul in Lord of the Rings

The Lighthouses
The lodges in Twin Peaks

Limbo
It was a chaotic neutral plane, and as such the wierdness was inspired by this t-shirt.

Lighthouse Bay
A visit to Dover museum showed Roman dover with this twin lighthouse layout

Climatic Lighthouse Battle
The climax to the classic film "The Vikings"

Choosing a Champion
The gods manipulation of the mortals in "Clash of the Titans"

Choosing an aspect
The character in Robin of Sherwood: Sword of the Templar can get a similar mark that bestows additional ability. Also the aforementioned game at Gobbo's had the pcs marked in someway. Never did find out why.

Real World

Pointon
A coastal town, found on an old map from back in the day that the pcs had never been to. Also a desire to start them off somewhere small, local and familiar. Or a generic fantasy town. One of the two.

Elder Harmon
The title comes from the naming of Loial's elders in the Wheel of Time series. Also that character was called Haman, whereas mine took his name from the actor who plays Agent Gibbs in NCIS.

Vandor
A van door passing by when I needed a name. :o)

Pointon Hall
The design of this came from somewhere I visited as a child, the main door opened up into a grand hall, with no windows as it was flanked on either side by corridoors with small antichambers. Upstairs there was a gallery to look over the main events.

Pointon Harbour
Lyme Regis

Jarek's entrance
Kyle Reese, in the Terminator, from conversation the night before.

Princes of the Dawn
The Astarte song "Princess of the Dawn". A cover of an old Accept song.

The shipwreck island
Lost again. Originally, the idea was to have them awake with no memory and shipwrecked, tho this was scrapped to provide the starting urban setting. This was reincorporated into the prelude. The temples and dungeons were akin to the Dharma stations on Lost.

Zombies
I always wanted to do a zombie style d&d campaign, I would've got away with it too if it hadn't been for that pesky cleric!