What if Shadowdark Spell Names were Classic Rock Song Titles?

Yesterday we posted a list of song titles to use in place of Old School Essentials Wizard spells.  Today we switch to Shadowdark’s Arcane spell list.  Of course there is a lot of overlap, but nearly half are new/different.

As you’ve hopefully seen, we’re launching our next Kickstarter soon for two books of monsters based on classic rock/pop/metal/etc song titles and band names.  One book will have stats for Shadowdark and the other book will have stats for Old School Essentials (a faithful B/X early D&D retro-clone). Each book will have the same creatures & art.  The linked page will let you click a “notify” button and give you a few example pages for each system.

Plus, each book will have appendices for things like: NPCs (Village People) such as Johnny B. Goode, Sarah, and more; Magic Items; and new names for the game’s spells based on song titles.  Below is our working list of new names of Shadowdark Arcane spells based on classic rock/pop/metal/etc songs!

Don’t be surprised if we post a divine spell list soon!

Tier 1

• Alarm: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go – Wham! or Somebody’s Watching Me – Rockwell
• Burning Hands: This Girl Is on Fire – Alicia Keys or Burning Down the House – Talking Heads
• Charm Person: Magic Man – Heart or You Really Got Me – The Kinks or Wrapped Around Your Finger – Police
• Detect Magic: maybe X-Ray Vision – Clutch or Seeing Is Believing – Asia
• Feather Fall: Free Fallin’ – Tom Petty or I Believe I Can Fly – R. Kelly
• Floating Disk: maybe Learning to Fly – Pink Floyd or Weightless – Marconi Union
• Hold Portal: Locked Up Tight – Lenny Kravitz
• Light: Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden
• Mage Armor: U Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer or Safety Dance – Men Without Hats or
• Magic Missile: Shoot to Thrill – AC/DC
• Protection from Evil: (No) Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones (added the “No”) or Hallowed Be Thy Name – Iron Maiden
• Sleep: Dream On – Aerosmith or Enter Sandman – Metallica

Tier 2

• Acid Arrow: Chemical Warfare – Slayer or The Chemicals Between Us – Bush
• Alter Self: Man in the Mirror – Michael Jackson or Changes – David Bowie or I’m Every Woman – Chaka Khan
• Detect Thoughts: What’s on Your Mind” – Information Society or Private Eyes – Hall & Oates
• Fixed Object: Rock Solid – Bad Company or Under Pressure – Queen & Bowie
• Hold Person: Stop! In the Name of Love – The Supremes or Freeze Frame – The J. Geils Band or Don’t Stand So Close to Me – The Police
• Invisibility: Invisible Touch – Genesis or Invisible Man – Queen or Disappear – INXS or Fade Into You – Mazzy Star
• Knock: Break On Through – The Doors or Let Me In – R.E.M.
• Levitate: Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder or High Life – Steve Winwood
• Mirror Image: Man in the Mirror – Michael Jackson or Double Vision – Foreigner or Reflections – Diana Ross & the Supremes
• Misty Step: Slip Slidin’ Away – Paul Simon or Into the Mystic – Van Morrison
• Silence: The Sound of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel or Enjoy the Silence – Depeche Mode or Hush – Deep Purple or Silent Running – Mike + The Mechanics
• Web: Caught in a Web – Dream Theater

Tier 3

• Animate Dead: Thriller – Michael Jackson or Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo
• Dispel Magic: Break the Spell – Lacuna Coil or Magic’s Gone – Slash (tweak from “World on Fire” era phrasing)
• Fabricate: Working Man – Rush or Material Girl – Madonna
• Fireball: Burning Down the House – Talking Heads or Great Balls of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis or Light My Fire – The Doors
• Fly: Learning to Fly – Pink Floyd or Fly Like an Eagle – Steve Miller Band or Rocket Man – Elton John
• Gaseous Form: Smoke on the Water – Deep Purple or Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
• Illusion: Just an Illusion – Imagination or Magic – The Cars or Dream On – Aerosmith
• Lightning Bolt: Thunderstruck – AC/DC or Ride the Lightning – Metallica or Lightning Crashes – Live (yeah, you’re totally picking Thunderstruck)
• Magic Circle: Heaven and Hell – Black Sabbath or Shield Wall – Amon Amarth or Circle of Power – Arch Enemy
• Protection from Energy: We Didn’t Start the Fire – Billy Joel or Cold as Ice – Foreigner
• Sending: Message in a Bottle – The Police or Call Me – Blondie
• Speak with Dead: Talking in Your Sleep – The Romantics or Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo or (Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Öyster Cult

Tier 4

• Arcane Eye: Private Eyes – Hall & Oates or I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me – Rockwell
• Cloudkill: Red Rain –Peter Gabriel
• Confusion: Dazed and Confused – Led Zeppelin or Lunatic Fringe – Red Rider
• Control Water: Under Pressure – Queen & David Bowie or Down Under – Men at Work
• Dimension Door: Walk This Way – Aerosmith or Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
• Divination: I Can See for Miles – The Who or The Future’s So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades) – Timbuk3
• Passwall: Break on Through (To the Other Side) – The Doors or Another One Bites the Dust – Queen
• Polymorph: Man in the Mirror – Michael Jackson or Changes – David Bowie (if you didn’t use it above) or maybe Beast of Burden – The Rolling Stones
• Resilient Sphere: You Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer or We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) – Tina Turner
• Stoneskin: Rock Solid – Bad Company or Stone Cold Crazy – Queen or Hard as a Rock – AC/DC
• Telekinesis: Control – Janet Jackson or Push It – Salt-N-Pepa
• Wall of Force: You Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer or Can’t Break Me Down – Billy Idol

Tier 5

• Antimagic Shell: Nothing Else Matters – Metallica or You Can’t Do That – The Beatles
• Create Undead: Thriller – Michael Jackson or Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo
• Disintegrate: Dust in the Wind – Kansas or Ashes to Ashes – David Bowie
• Hold Monster: Don’t Stand So Close to Me – The Police
• Plane Shift: Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin or Spirit in the Sky – Norman Greenbaum
• Power Word Kill: For Whom the Bell Tolls – Metallica or Killer Queen – Queen
• Prismatic Orb: Shine On You Crazy Diamond – Pink Floyd or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – The Beatles or Rainbow in the Dark – Dio
• Scrying: Private Eyes – Hall & Oates or I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2
• Shapechange: Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran or She’s a Beauty – The Tubes
• Summon Extraplanar: Highway to Hell – AC/DC or Mr. Crowley – Ozzy Osbourne
• Teleport: Run to the Hills – Iron Maiden or Fly Away – Lenny Kravitz
• Wish: Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey or Money for Nothing – Dire Straits or With a Little Help from My Friends – The Beatles