I use the AI music generator Suno a occasionally to set my poetry to music and create things like faux commercial jingles for my podcasts
Lately I've been using it to make up silly songs to entertain my kids... And to engage in the odd rap battle over D&D theory with BrOSR guys.
It occurred to me that while I was tinkering away with writing a little D&D related music, it might be a fun one-off to do an article in the form of a rap piece. And so I did.
The Appendix -N Rap is a quick discussion of some of the ways the writers listed as most influential on D&D have left a mark on the game. Namely Abraham Merritt, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, Jack Vance, Roger Zelazny, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, and H.P. Lovecraft.
The lyrics here are mine, and I managed to get the Suno AI to arrange vocals and music to my taste after about 30 iterations.
