Maw of the King- An Original Dungeons and Dragons Inspired Song 

Player: I want to play a song DM: ok roll for performance DM: what did you get Player: a 50

I can imagine playing DnD with Cami as a bard and she actually pulls out the instrument and sings a fully prepared song for every situation

"The king swallowed me!" "Did you die?" "Sadly yes...BUT I LIVED!"

....a friend of mine who loved to play bard always said, "music is a magic that not only one can learn in the world of dnd, but in the real world and beyond..."

"I screamed louder than lightning burned the king inside out!" Ah yes, Hellish Rebuke is fun. (Or as my sister calls it: "I CAST PAIN!")

*Nat 20 in performance* "The Newcomer believes they have no choice but to subscribe after your story"

When the bard cares about music instead of screwing everyone in sight. *Wait, that's illegal.*

The king: Ew, that snack was really salty.. Wait, I feel it moving? Me: *Silently sets up my bluetooth for Monsters inc earrape.*

I can practically see her spinning around and dancing on the tables as she sings, and the numerous members of the party each singing along in their own unique ways.

I can practically see her dancing and parading around/on the tables of the tavern while she's singing. It's freaking glorious. I love it!

I really love how you managed to make such a damn good song with nothing but vocals, clapping and drums for percussion, and an accordion, because it's a song that someone is singing in a bar, you aren't going to have a full band of instruments.

I can't believe it... This song got me out of a three-year D&D writing block.

King: HA! I have eaten you! What are you going to do about it? Person playing the Bard: I drop my mix-tape! King: You what?

"But as we thought we'd won, the bastard he breached and took one of us down!" *Clapping stops*

Mid campaign DM: you're in a tavern and everyone is bored Cami: I GOT THIS! HOLD MY BEER!

The build up to, “I screamed louder than lightning and burned The King inside out!” Was amazing, then the delivery of that line was even better, I love your videos so far.

I am one thousand and twelve percent on board for this to become a regular thing.

"I screamed louder than lightning burned the king inside out!" Dragonborn : Hold op, wait a minute, something seems familiar.

*b a r d m o d e a c t i v a t e d*

"I SCREAMED LOUDER THAN LIGHTNING, BURNED THE KING INSIDE OUT!!" Me: "Heh... heheheh... This, uh.... sounds quite familiar." *_-PTSD of the time when my sister decided to use Thunderwave-_*

You are the best Bard. Here's to your Nat 20Rolls

DUDE YOUR SINGING IS MY WAR ANTHEM! HELL YEAH! *pirate metal head banging*

"I screamed louder than lightning burned the king inside out!" The way you belt out this line actually gets me so jazzed! Bravo!

I can imagine their party in a busy tavern surrounded by rowdy patrons, drinking together after another day of adventuring. Danarei looks around, seeing some people look bored, then wordlessly says to her allies that she wants to play for them. They nod to her smiling, then she reaches into her pack and pulls out her accordion. As she plays the first few measures of her song, the noise of the tavern starts to die down as multiple heads turn to watch. Her party starts providing background beats (hand clapping, foot stomping, table banging, etc.) as she leaps onto the table and starts to sing and dance for the now-entranced patrons

If I EVER have a bard with a fraction of this star power I will have reached the top of my game as a role-player.

THIS TAKES BARDING TO AN EXTREME LEVEL AND I LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT

The bard of my party sang this, when the song ended they laughed, the entire keep laughed..... My warlock with the patron of the lurker of the deep stands up and leaves to his room

No joke, my eyes watered when the intrumentals stopped for when the character was dragged down. Congratulations, you're awesome.

This is literally perfect, it amazingly has the perfect blend of sea shanty and irish feel that bar songs are so amazing for, all with your unique powerhouse of a voice! Well done!

You consider this song "ridiculous"? ...Well, then you should be worried that your "ridiculous" song actually picked my interest for future works involving your bard's adventures, if you release more. Seriously, this kind of ballad gives me vibes of a sea shanty and a happy tavern song. It's really beautiful!

"I screamed louder than lightning burned the king inside out" After playing a tiefling for two and a half years myself, I feel like in gameplay this would be that she hellish rebuked after being swallowed and it killed the boss. :p (Yes, I know it was backstory, still amuses me to think about how it would have gone down were it an ingame moment.)

"Before we have taken this town for our own?" Are the singer and her band of adventurers the good guys or are they simply wanting to kill The King, so they could take the village hostage

You as a bard? Totally here for it. Would love for more of these sorts of things! 😄

DM: Roll for preforming CC: *Crit 20* Dm: and how would you want to do this? CC: *THIS*

*screamed louder then lighting* me: so your my mom after I hit the vase with a tennis ball

I cry everytime when the bridge comes. To me, I can see, hear, and feel the fight. And when she belts at the end, I can't help but bawl my eyes out. The music and lyrics are expertise, filled with wisdom and a knowledge one only gets when experienced.

Video:*Ends* Me:"It’s rewind time"

A tiefling bard??? My heart and soul is s o l d. God this is amazing and my DnD + love for tieflings heart just bursts with joy

You arrive at an inn with an opportunity to flex, what do you do? Danarei:

Dm: how will you burn the ogre Bard: pulls out phone and starts playing cami cat Dm:roll dc 19 performance check Bard: *rolls natural 20*

The Teifling stood on the table as the audience in the bar applauded her. A part of her hadn't expected to get this much attention. _I guess that's what happens when people aren't too drunk or busy with themselves to listen,_ she thought. She climbed off the table, her nerves set on full drive as her body physically shaked. She tried to keep her anxiety low as she was soon greeted by three hats full of coin. Caught off guard, She dazely took them and smiled in thanks. As she took her seat again, she set down her accordion and started to count the money. She could tell the eyes of the crowd were on her. Many people wanted to ask her questions, but she fully knew that she didn't want to answer any of them. When she was done counting, she picked up her trusty instrument, put the money in her bag, and left the bar. She found herself heading towards the beach. No idea why, but it wasn't the first time. She sat on a rock and gazed out over the water. The Moon cast a light on the water, and with the stars, it was beautiful. You'd never believe that a monster lay in those waters. She knew some people in the bar didn't believe it, and for that she took they weren't there when the King raged the sea. She didn't blame them. She wouldn't have believed it either in their shoes, but she knew. She knew that if you went the right distance over the water, swam down enough, You'd find all the ships discarded and broken by the King. She remembered being a little girl in the town as she first heard of the beast. Sailors were being tended by their families and friends as they cried and mumbled of the King. She remembered them being covered in cuts and scratches, one man having his arm missing. She listened through their non-sensual tellings of how the King had taken their ship, their friends, eventually their sanity further down the line. Her hand moved to her forehead as she thought, rubbing a scar she had gotten from her first and final encounter with the horrible creature. He had been more terrifying than in description. She couldn't even remember how they had fought him off for so long before she had been swallowed and delivered the final blow from within his gut. All she remembered was thunder and lightning, screams from the others aiding her in the fight, and the King himself. She shuddered at the thought, her tail swishing on the rock. She listened the waves lapping at the shore, the night creatures call out from the forest behind her. She rested her head onto the rock and closed her eyes. As sleep encased her, she heard a huge wave crash down, her last consious thought being of how it sounded of the King rising from the water, only if you had been miles upon miles away. Edit: I’m not a DM, I just like writing stories, though I’m flattered that y’all think so.

when i listen to this, i just picture cami as her character dancing on a table in a tavern with an accordion singing this and it’s amazing

It was darker than night, In the maw of the beast, All I could taste was My blood and the sea.... Such powerful lyrics. Puts you right there in the story. 10/10 Theater of the Mind.

Tiefling Bard is my number one favorite class and race combo so i'm in love with every part of this.

I AM WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO DO ANIMATION TO THIS BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART

duuuuUUUUUUDE!! THIS MAKES ME WANNA GO TO MY LOCAL TAVERN AND BLAST THIS OUT!!

I want the instrumental versión so I can sing this as a bard

>Be me the party's bard >makes a song based on our homebrew campaign, literally jumped up on his table spinning and singing the song

Oh wow, this tune is so catchy just makes me wanna sing along. the vibe is so cool too! This is one h*ck of a good DnD song!

Ya'll got any more of dem... D&D songs? Side note: Accordion Bards REPRESENT!

I cannot stop coming back to this song every now and then. Cami, you created a masterpiece of cheesyness and awesomeness.

DM: Okay, cool, you've snuck into the elite upper-class tavern, but a bartender spots you, and knows you shouldn't be here. What do you do? Bard: Uuhhhh, I distract him by dropping a fire track DM: Roll performance Bard:

I watched this then the next day I realized Tieflings make the perfect bards because Thaumaturgy allows them to become their own backup vocalists and gives them a slew of useful nuances for effects like the lighting in your video here.

I fully support the sassy tiefling bard archetype. It's one of my favorite combinations. Glad to see you enjoying goofy DnD shenanigans.

When you finally defeat that stupid kraken using hellish rebuke:

I swear she needs to make an album of ballads telling stories of great Heroes she would make a killing off of it

FEED THE DISLIKER TO THE KING!

Now THAT’S one hell of a bard!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✊

I constantly find myself rewatching this.

DM: "Alright guys, we need some music for this situation." Normal person: "Ok, let me pull out my Spotify Playlist" Cami: *Pulls out accordion from back pocket* "Give me a second guys."

"My blood and the sea" - a dreaded combination that comes from the taste of iron and salt.

That's it. My Cleric of Arcana Domain is now your bard's biggest fan. I'm working into my game how he obsessively talks about this one Tiefling Bard he once saw, and that no other bards have ever come close to the one performance he witnessed.

Everyone else: dnd, song, etc. me: really big fish

So if I had to theorize I would go with my best guess being that the king inside of this song is the D&D kracken it is a giant fish type creature its size is tighten its tail is massive it has tentacles and it can summon in literal storms partially by electrocuting the surrounding water and it can zap players with lightning so it not only fits the storm category raging booming category of its tail splashing in the water and since of its size it could probably eat a ship as well.

And with this I realised, I'm not just an introvert but barsongs of today have degraded, we need more songs about epic tales.

*Adventurer enters tavern* *Bard plays dope song* Adventurer: Oh, $#!+. *flails wildly*

*Newcomer has been charmed!* **dumps gold pieces in front of you and subscribes**

Energetic, great beat, and you obviously had a load of fun with it. 20 Charisma for you fair lady.

Teifling bards are so much fun to play, but its hard to find a mini.

*SO AWESOME!!!!!* As a HUGE fantasy fan, I find this song a *PURE PERFECTION* to the realm of D&D!!!

I play a warforged in one of my campaigns,he acts as my partys jukebox, so my DM allowed him to play any song in existence. So durning a fight, he played this song and our party became ecstatic.

When you roll a 20 and have a plus 15 to performance. Love this song so much!

I could see my party’s bard singing this, and starting a barfight right after.

Dimitri, a half-elven rogue that had forsaken his adventuring party to go and scout out the local tavern entered to see the visage of a red-skinned devil standing atop one of the tables with a peculiar instrument in her hands. The people who had surrounded who he had reasoned to be a her, seemed happy, infatuated, even. It certainly peaked his interest... however easy it was to. Though the cursed thought of having to return to the party pierced through the veil, and he had no choice but to consider his options. "Hmm... they'll be fine.." he uttered to himself after what was about... three seconds of thought and the checking of an invisible watch. He was going to find out more of this tiefling and her band of travelers, though it proved difficult; as he tried to get closer, a gathering crowd cut off his path, and the sound of a boot tapping against the sturdy, but slowly rotting wood of the table the she-devil stood upon put his advances to rest. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap... tap-tap-tap... It grew faster, and louder as if it were influenced by some spell, the crowd beginning to grow more quiet with each tap, a steadily rising, rhythmic clap coming from the masses as it slowly became apparent to the thief that this was no coincidence, this was a beat, a call to action. Then, she began to sing, and the ever-progressing train running on pure curiosity within Dimitri's mind halted. The energy she began to gather from the people, and himself, made him feel strangely comfortable, yet the realization that it was taking place had set it off... so an effect akin to your first kiss, butterfly-like in his stomach as he watched the shimmering red mystique begin her dance, the expert fingers she bore hitting every key on her strange music-maker, and her voice echoing throughout despite the woo's and hollering of the roused peoples. In a word; it was exhilarating. His body twitched, but he refused to leave the fortress he had created by crossing his arms, a stance that stood as sturdy as any well-made mansions or castle. A smirk pulled at the corner of his lip, and there had been no fighting that. His right foot suddenly beginning to tap alongside the hardy, ever-moving tune against his wavering will as it penetrated the defenses at the base. Had she been magically manipulating him and these people? He could have sworn they were, yet every bone and instinct in his body pointed toward one possibility... She was simply incredible. [Comment or something if you want me to continue, wanted to write and this had inspired me to make this small excerpt.]

This is what I love about bards, they're allowed and have the skills to have fun with their class. Rogue is sneaky, fighters are fighty, Barbarians are tough, and casters are either evil or wordy. Bards are quite literally Jack's of ALL trades.

King: YOU COULDN’T POSSIBLY GET PASSED ME IN MY *insert random mid evil sounding name”* FORM Bard: *rolls 20* pass me the accordion King: huh?

As what I like to consider an avid DnD player, I would absolutely love more songs telling the tales of your DnD party's adventures!

🎵And so ends the tale of the king of this victory, we'll forever sing! With a voice loud as thunder The beast met his blunder Deep in the fathoms below🎵

This has gotten stuck in my head to the point that I heard it in my dream last night. Well done!

As a tiefling bard who also tells stories about things I’ve killed, I approve of such behavior and I, in fact, encourage it as well. Gives DMs a good time and the tavern keeper a reason to stay in business.

I also play a teifling but based on this song, they're very different. Good thing they don't travel together. Danarei:Remember that time you dared me to launch the carriage off a cliff? Eel:No, I said 'Danarei, don't launch the carriage off a cliff', and then you said 'Don't tell me what to do Eel', and then YOU LAUNCHED THE CARRIAGE OFF A CLIFF!

I got a nat 20 in my campaign and played this to distract an army while half my party started looting the dead bodies of these legendary demonic magic stealing worm things; long story short I started a riot,scraped the bodies clean, and earned the respect of the general...man I love dnd XD

My best friend was just inspired to make a whole ass new character because of this and it's amazing

... I LOVE YOUR CHARACTER YO!! This is one hell of a dnd song. May your adventures be plenty and your pockets never empty Cat! I have just one question for you as a fellow dnd player. "Greetings young adventurer, folk hero from parts unknown. That was one hell of a tale you told. My name is Kaz'zac a lizardman ranger from Jura. May I ask for your name miss bard?"

DOWN WITH THE TYRANNIC KING! THE MAW IS DEAD!!!! Seriously, if someone doesn't make a cover of this, I'll LOSE IT!!!

I'm currently playing a female tiefling bard who used to be a sailor, so this was just perfect. :D

This inspired me to write a pirate story. Thanks !

I almost can't stop listening to this! . . . But I need to go to bed . . . Nah, just one more time~! (an hour later) Oh, I needed to go to bed. Mmh, just once more~

Player:*Nat 20 preformance* DM/veiwer:roll for persuasion with advantage player:*rolls nat 20* DM/veiwer:*subs*

20 replays in, and this and your assembly songs are some of my favorites I’ve heard on RU-vid. Thanks for making them.

I can't place why, but this song just hits me. You did such amazing job on this piece. The music, the production, the lyrics, the vocals, all superb. The intensity in the vocals especially. I would pay money to see this performed either life or recorded in studio. Especially with ending segment, those notes are so powerful. Absolutely amazing performance, Cami. I wish I had discovered your work sooner. Such a talent.

First off: welcome to the tables :) secondly: this song is easily described in one word: perfect. Also i love it when people who can actually sing play bards.

I fully approve of tiefling accordionist sailor bards. Especially ones that apparently can use destructive wave.

A young blue tiefling walks into the tavern and sees a giant fish jaw the biggest he has ever seen, he is taken aback and accidentally bumps into someone, Kid: “Oh I’m sorry... I didn’t mean to!” The kid realizes that’s he bumped into another tiefling Kid: “hey... if you don’t mind me asking, where did that fish come from?” The red tiefling looked down at the kid, smiled, and pulled out an accordion. Women: “well kid let me tell you the story of the King!”

These songs you make are amazing!!!! This makes me even more want to go to skyrim and just drink a lot of ale and sing this and get everyone in the tavern there singing!!!

CAMI HOLY CRUD THIS WAS SO DAMN CATCHY!!! legit this is already stuck in my head and I'm loving every second. So good! So damn good!

*takes a look at the link - Realizes height* "Oh my goodness!" *Tiny 4'1" Tiefling Sorceress stars up at the nearly 7' Tiefling bard*

Awesome song and great singing! No party is complete without a great bard! I look forward to more! May the rolls always be in your favor!

A beast simply named *The king* is such an amazing villain title I kinda wanna use it

"Wana know what I did?" "Sure?" "Thunderwave."