Theme Song
This is something I’ve always loved to do. I don’t know how widespread it is in the larger community, but I love picking out theme songs for my PCs, important NPCs, and even whole campaigns.
Laurel and I did this for the first time in Exalted. I was running that game, and the NPC that turned out to be the strongest party ally was a deathknight named Vespers. Dude wound up getting in hock to a certain BBEG who’d set up shop in Thorns, a massive necropolis teeming with undead. Imagine my surprise when a Christian metal band turned out to have the perfect song.
Since that game was set in Chiaroscuro — a vaguely Arabian Nights themed part of Creation — I wound up choosing an instrumental version of a classic for the campaign theme.
But as much as I liked my selections, it was just as much fun watching my buddies choose their own theme songs. We had one crocodile-totem Lunar Exalt who wound up acquiring a tyrant lizard form. It’s been years since we ended the game and compiled our final album. I still crack up when his song comes up in the queue.
Of course, all of these selections were made after we’d been playing for a while. Just recently I got around to doing it the other way. I’ve made a character who is actually based off a song. Her name is John Justice-Mountain. It’s a weird west game, and she’s a gunslinger / inquisitor. After her husband was murdered, she took the slain paladin’s long gun and name, pledging to deal out justice and lead in his place.
Given all of the above, I’m sure you can guess where today’s discussion is going. I want to hear YOUR theme song! Pick a favorite PC, NPC, or campaign. Tell us a little bit about your selection, then link us to their song! And if you’re a REALLY cool kid, get the rest of your table to do the same. Because let me tell you: It is AWESOME having a mix tape worth of memories years after a campaign has ended.
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I am slowly, oh so slowly writing a series of Ravenloft Gazetteers.
The protagonist character is an arrogant, nasty, brilliant, and at times unexpectedly honourable spellcaster. She has a highly toxic relationship with her employer, who forced her to map out and scout a distant Cluster so he can conquer it.
Her theme song “Only happy when it rains”, by Garbage:
https://youtu.be/GpBFOJ3R0M4?si=TmTlSI9GY46u_9hK
In my multiverse, there is an eternal champion. She is a hunter of abominations, a slayer of fiends, a terror to evil no matter its form or nature. Be it by fist or blade or spell, she will stalk and she will slay whatever foulness can die. She will be a thorn in the side of what evils cannot. And she has been doing this since roughly the Stone Age. Unending. Undaunted.
Her theme is “Cry” by Thomas Bergersen.
https://youtu.be/DY6zpHupSMo?si=g-xJIhmSN61Tv1oO
I’ve mostly used theme songs in blood bowl, usually I pick the “Bpys are back”. Though I have on occasion pulled “Ghost division” while deploying my army of nothing but Guard armored vehicles.
As for RPG’s, at most it’s been me humming a few lines of appropriately themed song or reworded to be such. Most memorable is from Pathfinder Barbarian, through out a combat envounter I mofified Monty Pythons Lumberjack to Barbatian themed, suffice to say it wasn’t about cuting trees and wearing dresses, but heads and vegetarianism
For my oft-mentioned Half-Orc cleric of Heracles (and, by default, Zeus and the rest of the Olympians), “In the Blood” by Darrin Korb from the Hades soundtrack beat out a dozen other songs including three Johnny Cash covers (including “God’s Gonna Cut You Down), “Centuries” from Fallout Boy and “Believer” by Imagine Dragons.
In the end it came down to calling up a particular mood more than anything else. I had a detailed bracket with subheadings like “Death & Resurrection,” “Priest of Power,” “Servant of Heracles,” and “Half-Orc Cleric of Zeus.”
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=565580871&q=in+the+blood+hades&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiW4MnSk6yBAxWOmGoFHUDlD8YQ0pQJegQICxAB&biw=1280&bih=631&dpr=1.25#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e6a37f2b,vid:ojx8dyes__8,st:0
Holy fucking shit that’s perfect. Well done that man!
I can see the feats of strength every time the horns kick in.
So what’s the name/description of that magic item Bard attached a cord to his lute to?
I shall leave the honor of naming it to you.
Box of Balladeers
A device often used during festive events and by wealthy
bards who want their performances heard over a large crowd, this 1ft.-by-2ft. wooden box has two conical indentations on its side and a long length of cord attached to it, with a loose end. When the loose end is attached to any musical instrument, or held by someone engaging in a vocal performance (such as singing), the box amplifies and becomes another source of the performed music (as though the target of a ventriloquism spell). Any bardic performance, bardic masterpiece, spell with the sonic descriptor or other sonic effect enacted while using this device has its range and area of effect doubled, and any DCs or charisma-based checks gain a +2 bonus. Once per day, the performer may cast either Cacophonous Call, Sound Burst or Ear-piercing Scream, however this disables the magic of the box for 24 hours.
IT. IS. CANON.
Best used with a casting of Geddy Lee’s Electric Lute 😉
I totally love to find fitting songs for my PCs or party members. I think my current one would be a bunch of shanties as we’re playing pirates in a pirate game. One our of PCs, having had a history of getting killed by fish and recently broke that curse by escaping a gigantic Grindylow that swallowed him, got the honor of Cami-Cats finer creations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpHVY16CKw0
This is not a one character thing, but I find that Valkyria Awakening is a great song to play when a paladin activates Smite Evil (pathfinder buff version) or a Cleric activates Divine Power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT32zfL5M1A
Do I hear wedding Bellflowers in Arcane Archers and Druids future?
A particular scene in our last campaign that was one of the first (but not the last) major cliffhanger ending sessions of the game (at least that I remember and still to this day… )
We were in the frozen north of the Icewind Dale area, heading back over the mountain pass to find a temple to the god of the giants (part of a whole thing with giants and dragons… if you know the adventure, you probably know what I am talking about).
As we came to the base of the pass, we were stopped by not one, not two, but at least a dozen frost giant… ZOMBIES!!! (fun fact, there were WAY more zombie frost giants, but we only ended up fighting about a dozen total).
The DM described the scene as being like the cover of a heavy metal album with our little group of heroes staring up at an endless seeming horde of zombie frost giants, lining the mountain path ahead of us, with what seemed to be a necromancer frost giant at the center, who yelled at the top of his giant lungs, “KILL THEM!!!” and we stood ready to battle the frozen waves as the mountain shook and the giants came down upon us!
Then the DM played ‘Immigrant Song’ by Led Zeppelin… and said we would end the session there!
One of those forever moments 🙂
I have actually gone about it the other way a couple times. I started with a song, and then used that to inspire a character.
I should be able to answer this — I have a *karaoke playlist* for one of my supers — but I can’t think of any character for whom I could identify a single iconic song. For that particular super, Sia’s “Unstoppable” would be the obvious cliché for going into battle. But in darker moments, Blue Oyster Cult’s “Veteran of the Psychic Wars” has always been very fitting for the same character…
On a more cheerful note, my current bard doesn’t have a single iconic song — but she’d gladly claim anything so horribly annoying that her enemies will throw themselves off a cliff to get the song out of their heads.
Thinking on it a bit more, the path from “Veteran of the Psychic Wars” to “Unstoppable” is actually a pretty good summary of that character’s story arc… from “helpless and bereaved” to “confident and invincible”.
Honestly so many Fire Emblem soundtracks go so hard.
From your noble heroes: https://youtu.be/xMAXFfKIRJA
To your unstoppable LE conquerors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL79isTPIJU
The Radiant duology’s soundtrack is just bangers all the way down.
I do explicitly plan to have a one-off villain whose design and voice lines are all thinly veiled references to Star Wolf, so I figure the actual theme is the way to go for him. https://youtu.be/LkYTMroyv0U
I also plan to straight up steal Frog from Everhood, so I have to use their theme.
https://youtu.be/ngGede_9hAE
Every character I play has to have a quote, song lyric or even an entire song to represent them. I find this really useful to remind me who they are for roleplay purposes.
My wife run’s a 1940-50’s campaign set in New York centered around the Five Families. My character was orphaned as a result of a mob hit that saw his parents and his sister gunned down in a diner. As he hid, a masked thug looked under the table and saw him still alive. When he saw the look in the child’s eyes, he left never revealing that he didn’t finish the job.
My poor little boy got up and ran. he ran until he was exhausted, slept in alleys, and repeated the process until his legs simply wouldn’t carry him any further. He eventually got picked up and put in a orphanage with no name or identity, or anyone even coming to look for him. He eventually left New York, fostering a deep hatred for the mobsters that took his family from him, except he didn’t know which family was behind it.
He eventually decided he would simply bring the whole institution down in flames until the truth revealed itself. 15 years later he returned, taking on the name Tristan Mietitore (look up Grim Reaper in Italian).
Said all that to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRUOGd_9orc
‘Hell’s Coming With Me’ by Poor Man’s Poison would also really work.
yeah I have a whole playlist, and that’s on it!
Blood//Water – grandson
Heathens – Twenty One Pilots
Twisted – Missio
Tristan – Patrick Wolf
The Devil is a Gentleman – Merci Raines
etc, etc.
He even has a battle music theme, though it is more of joke that it’s such happy music that can seem sinister when put in the context of a sociopath.
AC-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive – Johnny Mercer
I don’t tend to make playlists or choose a theme song, but it’s happened a few times.
For one game, the GM told us “you’ve been affected by an Earworm. Take a song that most fits your character and that’s what’s running through your head.”
I chose “Who Can it Be Now” for my paranoid conspiracy theorist.
My group also sometimes likes to choose a Disney movie and decide one song for each character. For my exalted Dawn Caste, this prompted a huge debate if he should have Circle of Life or Hakuna Matata; the Twilight doctor is modeled after a monk so could also arguably have either (our Twilight craftsman got “Be Prepared”, the Zenith got “I Just Can’t Wait to be King” and our Night got “Can you Feel the Love Tonight”).
We did an entire list if the movie had enough songs, but I don’t recall all of them. I know I got Gaston’s Villain song for my Dawn (Mighty Thews, Appearance 4 and Intelligence 1) and a different character got “Reflection” from Mulan.
Oh man, do I love making playlists for campaigns. I have a particular pet campaign setting, which is a mortal world ruled over by immortal elves; the theme being ageless characters juxtaposed against this slowly dying world.
As I said there’s a whole playlist of songs; but my two favorite are probably Willow Tree March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEt2e6VwSLs) and Ashes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crq-qc_r6Jk)
I have so many songs that fit my enchanter that he’s got two playlists, each with over a hundred songs on it. One for combat/angst situations, one for everyday things. Can’t link them at the moment, but I’ll try to remember to later
One of my ongoing campaigns had this as a requirement! We had to pick a country song as a character background for a Western-style game, and I went with a Muse patron warlock based on The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
I’ve got an upcoming Curse of Strahd game where I got inspiration for my character from listening to Irish music, specifically Celtic Woman’s rendition of Téir Abhaile Riú.
…wait a tick, I know what game you’re talking about.
Fancy that.
A very old silly concept of mine is of a Bard-barian Warforged that would largely communicate with soundbites and short phrases from Daft Punk songs, and specifically starts playing “Harder Better Faster Stronger” whenever they’d go into a rage.
For my current PC (an Oread Orc Mountain monk in pf2e) I honestly haven’t thought of one. Should be something in the range of heavier folk rock, but I can’t think of something specific right now.
Oh man I do this ALL THE TIME. And sometimes the character is based on the song, rather than finding the song later. Gonna limit myself to three characters for this post; I’ll probably post more later because I doubt I’ll be able to help myself…
Kabalin Tunaan – “Unlimited Sin” by Beast In Black. A mortal who committed such sins that the gods turned their eyes from her, and she became a demon. A transformation she’s actually quite happy with, as it turns out; not least because being able to shift between forms has made them realize they’re genderfluid. Other perks include elemental powers, heroic physique, increased mental discipline, agelessness, and oh yes, because of this they developed a unique martial arts style/philosophy/enlightenment that lets them *kill immortal gods*.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdBOi8XLegc
Pollyanna, the Littlest Nightmare – “Hungry For Another One” by JT Music literally inspired this character. A once friendly and cheerful NPC, infected by something she found in the dreamscapes, but incapable of recognizing the monster she’s become. Her other theme songs, which the DM is encouraged to play during her boss fights and chase scenes, include “Instruments of Cyanide” by DA Games, “Lullaby of Woe” from the Witcher 3 OST, and “Thought Contagion” by Muse.
https://forums.giantitp.com/showsinglepost.php?p=24809459&postcount=45
Ruin – “Ode to Fury” by Miracle of Sound. In both their heroic and their villainous versions, Ruin is driven by hatred. Hatred for the injustices of the Void Empire, both to Ruin personally and in general to the Empire’s galactic neighbors (not to mention their own people). Self-loathing, for their own crimes and failings; if they’d just been smarter, wiser, *better* over the centuries, hundreds, thousands, and now millions of lives would have been saved, and no one holds Ruin more to account for this than Ruin themself. And, increasingly, the villainous version of Ruin is starting to hate the universe itself for being so cruel, so heartless, so unrelenting in its seeming desire to force Ruin into the role of monster. More than anything, Ruin fears this third hatred, and what it could become if left to grow; they spend a great deal of time and effort tracking down reminders of the goodness in the universe and people in general, and in particular Ruin is nothing less than delighted whenever heroes pop up to oppose them, because it warms their undead heart to see people willing to risk everything to do the right thing.
https://youtu.be/RROd79kpDKw?si=poXLKPW0yd5Z_OsJ
The only time I’ve ever played music it was simply background. Usually Steeleye Span or Horslips. When I first started playing back in 1978, we played in one of the players rooms, since she was an officer and had a suite. During those games we had the Rankin Bass Hobbit soundtrack going in the background all the time.
A few years ago our table was going through the 5E Ravenloft adventure, when my character was killed (struck by lightning at Yester Hill with single-digit hit points, IIRC).
The DM & I discussed options, and he agreed to let me do two things: Use one of the NPCs, since introducing another PC can be awkward in the demi-plane; and playtest the new-at-the-time Mystic from UA.
The original inspiration for the character was to be Raven from the Teen Titans, but when the DM killed the rest of my character’s [NPC] family, her theme song popped into my head pretty much instantly: Ellie’s Song from the Last of Us, Part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iophDSWJ4&list=LL&index=15
I almost always DM, but I’ve wanted to run a character based on Johnny from Devil Went Down to Georgia for a while; I think it would be fun to run him as a warlock pretending to be a bard.
I haven’t done this before, but sounds like fun.
An elven Rogue / Oracle of Gozreh, serene and happy to drift from place to place, but also willing to deal death from the mists.
Enigma – Shadows In Silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntvEatvYt-8
A Mutation Mind Psychic (Self-Perfection discipline) / Inquisitor of Abadar. Touched by corruption at a young age, but fought it through strict disciple.
Within Temptation – Stand My Ground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98xh5Hb9QAM
A WoD character, dominated by his Vyce; Envy. He didn’t have much, so he spend his life taking what he wanted and hurting the world for not giving it to him.
Nine Inch Nails – Sin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEWdjtMmqGo
I’ve had the feeling for years that it’s a very wide spread thing, picking out theme songs… but I sorta feel like many people use music that embodies what they wish and hope their character embodies; not what they ACTUALLY embody.
Don’t get me wrong here, it’s important to be aspirational and all-but if I asked you what you think your theme song OUGHT TO BE, then followed up with ‘and what would it be right this second’, most honest replies would be two different things. I deliberately challenge people who have chosen badass music to have their characters live up to their music.
It is complicated though. Music is very much in that search for meaning, and that meaning is cast through each of us differently.
Much harder to find a good song that accounts for a character’s failings though. Musicians try for powerful emotions of some sort, so it’s much easier to find a song that says “shining hero” than “guy who wants to be a shining hero, and often does well, but has his blind spots”.
For sure, but there’s plenty of music out there that’s nuanced. It just tends be genre inappropriate since mostly what we’re looking for is functionally operatic.
So they are not only dating but they are a couple now? Good for them 🙂
My girlfriend and I both do playlists for our PCs, usually soundtracking the character’s past and present journey. Actually, so does another friend of mine. So I think we’re the weird ones here
Oops, this was not meant as a reply.
Not a campaign exactly, but I do have two songs I think about for my campaign setting/hopefully-someday-novel-series Shadowfire.
The basic setup is that a Lord of the Rings knock-off happened 12-15 years ago, but the victorious Forces of Good concluded that it would be wrong to massacre all the surviving orcs and so shoved them all off their ancestral lands into one city under semi-permanent martial law, creating a simmering pot of ethnic tension and ethical quandaries that will definitely not someday blow up in their faces.
A central theme of the setup is power and how (or whether) it can be wielded responsibly by force. The Forces of Good were probably right to defeat not-Sauron and to not commit genocide afterwards, but how long can they keep their boot on someone else’s back before “It’s for your own good” rings hollow? But can they justify risking their own safety by loosening their grip? Thirty Seconds to Mars’s “Hurricane” touches a lot of those themes, especially with the chorus: “Tell me, would you kill to save a life? Tell me, would you kill to prove you’re right?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdJDPepGOAM
The other song is a bit more vibes-based, but I feel that Placebo’s cover of “Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush fits the kind of somber, reflective tone of someone who understands a dilemma, but doesn’t quite know what to do about it. Another major theme of the setting is that, similar to WWII, the great war fundamentally changed the world politically, socially, demographically and economically. Old powers like the elves were greatly weakened, new powers have emerged with new ideologies, the orc traditional way of life is gone, and everything’s mixed together. Many characters and competing factions struggle over how to hang onto the old ways or embrace the new, possibly better world that emerged from this great tragedy. “Running Up That Hill” is also about different people trying to understand each other despite their differences, which fits well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQGmLw0Aj4U
I do this only when I’m having difficulty finding the PC’s ‘voice’ or when I need to set a mood for a character radically different from mine.
So… I made this one for an Amber Diceless PC, her Father was Brand and she had “Daddy issues”… okay she had sanity issues after having been trapped in the most luxurious of shadows for, well she had no idea how long as the place messed with her time sense and constantly gaslit her on what was going on (but she was trapped for at least a hundred years). When she finally broke out (at campaign start) she was just a wee bit unhinged. The campaign became a “Find Brand and Deirdre” plot and the other PCs were never sure if she was helping looking for Daddy to help him overthrow Amber or to murder him very, very slowly…
So this was her “mood and mindset” playlist:
(I also like to grab “inspiring” quotes that sometimes go with songs.)
Drill Queen – Born Depressed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYFG4AoxN1A
Imagine Dragons – Demons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWRsgZuwf_8
System of a Down – Chop Suey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSvFpBOe8eY
“A loving father is the foundation upon which a daughter builds her life.”
The VLA – When I am through with you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNU2nOo1EwM
Seneca, Letter to Lucilius (Letter 2)
“Do you ask what is the proper limit [to wealth]? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough.”
White Zombie – Blood, Milk, and Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loMpBQyooH8
The Bangles – Hazy Shade of Winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrwImCJCqk
Imagine Dragons – Polaroid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLTEUgwEXo
Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place (1971)
“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”
Papa Roach – Tightrope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C2Gb1R-fAw
Franklin Roosevelt
“It isn’t sufficient just to want, you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”
AWOLNATION – Wake Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKvufIkWrBk
William C. Hannan, The Infinite Traveler (2015)
“The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the sun, and burn.”
Alister j Pearson – Raining Blood, Country Roads [Slayer, John Denver mashup]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGdrRD4Dq6M
Claire Wyndham – Kingdom Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4mMrfAPHhc
Arko Chakraborty, “Burn It All Down” (2013)
“Forget silence and peace, it’s time to light a fire.
Sink this world in an ocean of ashes,
Dress this earth in blood and half burnt corpses.”
Manafest – No Plan B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R0wobEEy6k
Gattica (1997)
“Anton: Vincent! How are you doing this Vincent? How have you done any of this? We have to go back.
Vincent: It’s too late for that. We’re closer to the other side.
Anton: What other side? You wanna drown us both?
Vincent: You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.”
After seeing my playlist (and quotes) the GM said they’d never be able to hear Chop Suey in quite the same way…
When playing my life cleric, former emo, and overall precious cinnamon roll, Nym, I’d play this one a couple of times on loop before game to get into the mood https://youtu.be/CKerqp5yOGo
Just realized this is a great opportunity to shout out my favorite band. Every single song by Miracle Of Sound is a theme song like this, but for a video game (or occasionally movie) or character from it. JT Music and DA Games are the other bands I know and like that do this, and they’ve both got some absolute bangers, but Miracle of Sound more consistently lands songs to my taste.
Every single song? I struggle to think what sort of character “Hammer the Buttons and Wiggle the Sticks” would be the theme to.
On the other hand, “The Call of Duty Circus” is frighteningly easy to picture.
I recently made a very sex-positive free love believing tiefling bard who I never would have made if Montero by Lil Nas X hadn’t been shuffled into my driving playlist on spotify.
Now I’m also playing a vampire princess in a pf2e game who really came together once I heard Call Me a Saint by YONAKA.
I’m a huge fan of linking characters to music, and I’m practically the only one in my group and it always bums me out, so I’m glad you made this comic!
I’ve got a playlist for Temple of Elemental Evil. I don’t remember the whole list offhand, but I temember it included
Fire (by Arthur Brown)
Burn The Earth (by Dethklok)
In the Air Tonight (by Phil Collins)
It Must Be the Wind (by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Rock Lords (by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Digging Up the World (by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Go Into the Water (by Dethklok)
Murmaider (by Dethklok)
The Water God (by Dethklok)
Pixel Shrooms (We Are Fungus) (by MrWeebl)
I do pick a few songs for my characters – such as Wrong Side of Heaven, Wildfire (by Crusher P), or Rise (by State of Mind). It’s generally a question of matching songs I like with character concepts.
But my most notable experience is a campaign I’m a player of, in which the GM took the songs from the group Gloryhammer and made a campaign based on their story. It’s really fun to play that epic, then get the songs “narrating” the campaign segment we just went through.
For the Dal Quori from Eberron
*Enter Sandman
*Sweet Dreams Are Made of This (by the Eurythmics)
*The Last Dungeon (cover by RemixRemaster, originally from The Dragon’s Trap, youtube video rhelyOlkMZc)
*the closing theme from Big Trouble In Little China
*a creepy modified version of the Kirby theme that I put together with echo and reverse echo added, the speed slowed down by 50 percent, and with a reversed copy of itself played over top of it
Nyarlathotep
*Nyarlathotep (by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
*Some Things Man Was Not Meant to Know (by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
*Please God No (by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
*The Witch (by Insane Clown Posse)
*New Dark Age (by Gwar)
*Pierced From Within (covered by Andy Rehfeldt, originally by Suffocation, youtube video -u5UE1sYyhg)
*The Number of the Beast (by Iron Maiden)
*Sympathy for the Devil (by the Rolling Stones)
*Omnia Vanitas (by Hellblinde)
*Shut Up and Calculate (by Sixty Symbols)
*Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Now I need to come up with a character specifically to make “All Eyes On You” (Smash Into Pieces) their theme song.
https://youtu.be/tSQ6CyyPatM?si=zfDobf-ot5JGlHMV
Maybe a Hexslinger, for Deadlands? Arm them with a big-ol’ rifle and shoot magic instead of bullets… assuming I’m remembering those rules correctly.
I’d also like to incorporate “Six Shooter” (Coyote Kisses), but that kind of flies in the “one bullet in the chamber” plan. Maybe I could split the difference with that rifle that uses a ‘magazine’ more akin to that of a revolver….
https://youtu.be/xkFZn4oPMqE?si=81jYvwfAVI0wrj8o