Sam Hawken, writer-guy

Praise The Devil Inside!

No, I haven’t become a Satanist. I’m talking about The Devil Inside, the excellent “AI band” that John Oliver mocked on Last Week Tonight. Oliver has no taste, because The Devil Inside rocks so much that I even have a t-shirt. I’ll probably get another soon.

Anyway, everybody here knows I play tabletop roleplaying games, but I rarely talk about it. However, I’m pretty excited about my newest campaign, Songs for the Damned, which I’ve recently offered. We have one seat left, but I anticipate that it’ll be filled soon.

This is how I pitched it:


There’s a storm on the horizon and sin in the soil. Songs for the Damned is a six-part dark country tale of outlaws, hauntings, and a reckoning that rides with the thunder.

You’ll play drifters, scoundrels, and broken souls trying to outrun the past, only to find it’s keeping pace in the form of ghost towns, cursed songs, and a black train that doesn’t stop for the living.

In the Borderlands, dying’s the easy part.

Inspired by the music of The Devil Inside and built for Frontier Scum, this is a hymnbook written in blood and played with rusted strings.

Songs for the Damned is for three to four players every other week, no longer than four hours. Characters will be generated during Session 0. Experience with Frontier Scum is unnecessary, but helpful. Adults only, please.


This should be a lot of fun. Those who’ve signed up are enthusiastic, too.

Ride on!