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I am looking for some music for a few of the exploration areas and encounters. Does anyone have some good ideas?
Our last campaign (non-Golarion) made use of a lot of typical adventure music: soundtracks from Pirates of the Caribbean, Conan, Braveheart, etc.
Part 1 ideas below:
The first keelhauling - no idea
The 'rope race' at the beginning - no idea! (maybe the last act of William Tell Ov?)
The 'bilge' sentence (where the PC gets ambushed by 2 pirates) - Wagner - Die Walküre prelude (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFn29Y9J0fU)
The boarding party scene: Holst - The Planets, Mars. I'll probably start it in the 2nd or third 'chase' round before the boarding actions. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I)
On the island if the players sleep and/or encounter a swarm - no idea
Grendylow Queen - no idea
Mutiny showdown - no idea
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I recommend the Monkey Island Soundtracks, for all your piratey music needs.
Soundtrack from "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", and maybe "Treasure Planet".
Rogues Gallery.
Nox Arcana has a Pirate/ghost ship soundtrack called "Phantoms of the High Seas".
Also, look into Midnight Syndicate's Official Dungeons and Dragons album. It has some very good music (City of Sails is very appropriate theme song for this kind of campaign.)
Nox Arcana has a Pirate/ghost ship soundtrack called "Phantoms of the High Seas".
Also, look into Midnight Syndicate's Official Dungeons and Dragons album. It has some very good music (City of Sails is very appropriate theme song for this kind of campaign.)
Thanks! I forgot about Midnight Syndicate... some of their CDs are lying around here somewhere...
Heather Alexander's "Yo Ho"
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE2pinQMjHI
anything by Alestorm
Soundtrack from master and commander might be useful. I used it to good effect in Savage Tide.
What he said. It's a fantastic soundtrack to boot (and a kick-ass movie to get in gaming mood).
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I love me some Stan Rodgers.
Not all are historically appropriate for some folks, depending on the period that you set your adventure in, but the nautical references are wonderful. Plus he's a local legend :)
You have not been out *drinking* unless you've been to a bar in the Maritimes for some pints and Salty Tunes. The next morning, your hand is sore and red from slapping it on the table to the rythym of the music! Good times!!.
A gusty rendition of Barrett's Privateers is, in almost every bar for the past 35 years +, the highlight of the evening.
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The Pirate Movie, a mostly forgettable eighties adaptation of The Pirates of Penzance, managed to give us this awesome pirate song.
Just before the first game start I am going to play Hoist the Colors off of a pirates of the carribean soundtrack. I hope it will set the mood for the ap.
That is exactly what I'm planning to do, too. Such a great piece of music to set the proper mood.
I keep listening to Cartographer by E.S. Posthumus. Both the vocal tracks and the instrumental remixes. Lots of campaign moments there from sailing ships to exploring islands.
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I would wager that the soundtrack to Cutthroat Island would also have several tracks to pull from.
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Anything from Erdenstern's Into the blue album.
Anything from Erdenstern's Into the blue album.
Wow... I'm a fan.
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions, I'm building my playlist... all the ideas have been great.
Highly recommend any of the albums from the Storm Weather Shanty Choir. There's several sea shanty groups out there, but this one is by far the most fun.
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I'll second Master & Commander, as well as Cutthroat Island. Oh, and Harry Gregson-Williams did a beautiful siren theme for that Sinbad movie - it might suit the grindylow cavern very nicely. Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead might work for a growing storm...and maybe have another listen through the rest of Planets?
Hrm, some Zoe Keating maybe? Potentially some Rachel Portman - the Chocolat soundtrack waxes a bit stormy on occasion. Ah, and listen through some Firefly/Serenity tracks (two different composers, there).
Luck!
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Not quite table music during the game, but a greatly thematic song: "The Mariner's Revenge Song"
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Hey guys, just thought I'd throw up a link to a spotify playlist I spent the last week putting together. It's a mix of shanty's and ballads, all of which use either only vocals or instruments that are period appropriate. I've also split it up into some other situation appropriate playlists as well (ie. one to play when they are on deck working, and one for the evenings when instruments were more likely to be used). I suppose I may as well link them too. Enjoy!
Spotify Playlist: Press Ganged (111 tracks)
Spotify Playlist: On Deck (66 tracks)
Spotify Playlist:Mealtime Entertainments (26 tracks)
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All good ideas. The group I'm running with tends to be... slightly silly as well, so I've added in the odd song or two from (the favourite film of one of the players) Muppet Treasure Island;
for Bonewrack Isle and afterwards, I'll be playing music from Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure.
It's got a few tracks of hectic, crazy music for boss fights; the one at the end of the flooded tunnels might go well with Not my Shoes!
Also, what better theme for a conceited, pretentious pirate than Banson's Aria?
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Hey guys, just thought I'd throw up a link to a spotify playlist I spent the last week putting together. It's a mix of shanty's and ballads, all of which use either only vocals or instruments that are period appropriate. I've also split it up into some other situation appropriate playlists as well (ie. one to play when they are on deck working, and one for the evenings when instruments were more likely to be used). I suppose I may as well link them too. Enjoy!
Spotify Playlist: Press Ganged (111 tracks)
Spotify Playlist: On Deck (66 tracks)
Spotify Playlist:Mealtime Entertainments (26 tracks)
I'm Subscribed! Thanks so much for putting this together- it will get lots of use during our SS campaign.
I am looking for some music for a few of the exploration areas and encounters. Does anyone have some good ideas?
Our last campaign (non-Golarion) made use of a lot of typical adventure music: soundtracks from Pirates of the Caribbean, Conan, Braveheart, etc.
Part 1 ideas below:
** spoiler omitted **
We used the Apocalypse theme from BSG as our opening sequence for the entire Rise of the Runelords campaign, but its too good a piece of music not to recommend for just about anything. Give it maybe two minutes so that it really starts rolling, and ry to listen to it on a system with decent sound. Chills, man.
There's also a live version of it as well, and all of the soundtracks together will give you a ton of similarly themed music to resource...
There are lots of great options for music. However I think theme song for the time on the Wormwood should be Flogging Mollies "Its been the Worst Day Since Yesterday" really captures the oppressive nature of Wormwood life.
Assassins Creed IV and the soundtrack of Black Sails for mine in July
I've introduced the fife and drum song "shimmy she wobble"as the Hurricane King's unofficial theme song.