Saving Throw

If I ran a game store I'd play the song Saving Throw by Shaun Varney.

Sometimes catastrophe befalls our characters. The game of Dungeons and Dragons is one of heroes, though, and not knaves. Therefore the game designers included a mechanism allowing characters to reach deep inside of themselves to overpower forces that would doom the rest of us: the saving throw. Shaun Varney has provided this heavy metal ode to the life-saving die roll. He lists a series of bad and catastrophic situations from which only a saving throw will save the character, gambling their life on the toss of a d20. He didn't get really adventurous with the lyrics, though he did get a little dark with his scenarios. It's clear he's spent time around a merciless DM.

Saving Throw is from Shaun Varney's 2006 album, Menuit the Mediocre: Truth Is in the Ear of the Beholder.

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Saving Throw lyrics

If you want to live
Then you have to give a roll
In a gamble for your life

It's your last chance
By the seat of your pants
It's a gamble for your life

You need a saving throw
Saving throw, saving throw
You roll a saving throw
Saving throw, saving throw

If you're cut in two
Don't know what to do
It's a gamble for your life

With an arrow in
Under your chin
It's a gamble for your life

If you're sent to Hell
By an area spell
It's a gamble for your life

If you're facing death
By dragon breath
It's a gamble for your life

You'll need a saving throw
Saving throw, saving throw
You'll throw a saving throw
Saving throw, saving throw

If you hit the ground
In a single round
It's a gamble for your life

If you hear that snap
Of a closing trap
It's a gamble for your life

You'll need a saving throw
Saving throw, saving throw
You'll throw a saving throw
Saving throw, saving throw

If you're cleft in twain
And feeling pain
It's a gamble for your life

If you've ruined your day
With Prismatic Spray
It's a gamble for your life

If you're trying to keep
From falling asleep
It's a gamble for your life

If you sip from an urn
And feel the poison burn
It's a gamble for your life

You'll need a saving throw
Saving throw, saving throw
You'll throw a saving throw
Saving throw, saving throw

You need a saving throw
Saving throw, saving throw
You'll roll a saving throw
Saving throw, saving throw