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Does anybody here like to play music while at the table? Be it atmosphere for a city, ambience for a dungeon, epic overtures for the long stretches of exploration and/or sick beats for a battle?
If you do play music at the table, what are some examples? Recently, I have been playing Chrono Trigger music whenever a battle starts.
I like to use Danny Elfman's Music for a Darkened Theater, vol. 2
It has that right amount of creepy cool to blend in the background until s#&@ gets tense in the game then it becomes more noticeable, super fun!
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I GM Skull & Shackles and usually have a pirate-themed playlist running in the background
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I have been using syrinescape. They have a lot of pathfinder specific play sets and they are pretty cool. They have both music and sound fx in most of their sets. My kids really love it when we use them in game. They have everything from ambient bar or town noise to fights and spell casting sound fx. They also have specific sets for every module in RotRL. Anyone interested you can find them online. We were introduced to them with a free voucher at free RPG day.
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Sounds like a lot of fun! What would you suggest for a game like Shadowrun or some other futuristic setting (including Iron Gods for Pathfinder)? Something like Industrial? (for the linked video, skip to 2:16)
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I have one GM who really likes having "background" music during games. It invariably is either too loud and thus distracting, or too quiet and we can't tell it's actually playing (so why even have it).
Like chase scenes, it's a good idea in concept that almost always falls flat in practice.
Nope. I'd rather hear the DM or the players.
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In the Mummy's Mask group I was in, we sometimes had the soundtrack of The Mummy playing in the background (not so loud as to drown out anyone's voices), which I found added to the atmosphere a bit. Haven't tried it anywhere else.
I've sometimes considered including YouTube links to appropriate music in some of my GM posts in my PbP, but haven't actually done it yet.
In Burnt Offerggins, i use the OST of AD&D Midnight Syndicate and the album Blood of the Dragon of the Nox Arcana. And for the next adventure (The Skinsaw's Murder), i will use the OST of the graphic adventure The Last Door (the 1st season) and the album Shadow of the Raven of the Nox Arcana!