Music you use during your games?

[PapaPetro]

I like to get anachronistic while playing:


I imagine a plane shifting bard playing the best cover jams of the multiverse.

I kept telling you guys, Bards are OP.
Look at David Lee Roth ffs!

 

[Bruuce]

The hardest part for me is making a proper playlist for the feel I want it to evoke while being tone retarded. Usually I find a lot of songs that sort of fit then meander forever until I give up and stick with the kinda meh one I have already.
I'm also not running fantasy so I can't google "Swampy Cave near Sneedhaved from S-69 OST" and get a dozen playlists already.

However there's some good examples of non-fantasy/different type of fantasy lists like https://www.youtube.com/@Musicof40K/ which I use since the setting is fairly close to 40k already.

 

[FritzedProcess]

For V:TM, I prefer either the "Music from the Succubus Club" CD, which you can find in the high seas (there's no fucking way I'm paying 400 euros for a second hand CD):


Or some Sisters of Mercy, they even look the part on their videos:

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Stormcrowfleet made good use of Homm2 muzak in his game.

 

[luj1]

Lately I am listening to this terrific album while playing through Hearkenwold,





Perfect for DnD adventures in low to mid magic setting.

 

[luj1]

Dungeon Synth + Doom



Perfect for those nights when you smoked too much weed

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

It depends on the game. With Victoria 2, I basically used whatever classical music I felt like listening.

I've been playing Morrowind recently and I prefer to remove the music altogether, with the exception of taverns where I listen to the tunes of the AURA mod.

Carmageddon had a soundtrack composed of a few instrumental Fear Factory songs, which I actually prefer to the standard versions. Later I found
out that they released a bunch more instrumentals, including the entire Demanufacture album, although I only found them on Youtube. While I'm not a huge FF fan, the instrumentals are great background material for a certain kind of game:



This got me thinking about using other metal instrumentals in the same vein. Unfortunately, most instrumentals are very proggy,
which was not what I was looking for. Here are some that go more or less well together (I can't post the links because of the limit):

Dark Angel - Cauterization
Master - Terrorizer
Gorguts - Waste of Mortality
Destruction - Upcoming Devastation, Thrash Attack
Rigor Mortis - Welcome to Your Funeral

The most obvious choice, otherwise, is ambient stuff, which I don't listen to a lot, except Brian Eno and Aphex Twin(not much anymore). Eno's Ambient 4 is my favorite and I've listened to it a million times while playing games and modding.

 

[Akratus II]

 

[InspectorRumpole]

Back when I had a stint as a DM, I used the good old

 

[Bara]

Dim's Parachrism album is nice


Lota Baerdcyn's stuff works well for mountain trails/dwarf home music


And of course the stuff from Dwarf Fortress works pretty great for that too


And in general a lot of the stuff released under HDK worth a check out especially Gnoll

 

[spookyheart]

Aight here you go here's one song i'm pretty into rn.

 

[cioran]

Used to play WOW Vanilla and listen to SOAD back in the day...there, I said it!

 

[SlightlyRadioactive]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the soundtrack for the The Witcher 1 so far, it has some of the best atmospheric music I've ever heard.





During combat I also like to use this music

 

[Zombra]

As an aside, all the Witcher soundtracks (when carefully curated to remove tracks with drums or vocals) are excellent ambience for tabletop fantasy RPGs.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

remove tracks with drums

Wtf what do you have against percussion you civilized sonofabitch

 

[Gandalf]

If I'd play DnD 5 e, then I'd made the Benny Hill theme a must during combat encounters.

 

[Zombra]

Wtf what do you have against percussion you civilized sonofabitch

Drums are great and that's the problem. Tracks with percussion can't effectively be ambient. No one listens to the DM when drums are playing.

 

[deathknight4044]

I have a lot that I alternate through depending on the situation

For battle:


For dungeon exploration



For calm wilderness



For neutral or more dangerous wilderness



For a desert adventure



A have more tailor made Playlists for unique situations but these are what I default to. Lots of legacy of kain soul reaver, legacy of kain blood omen, demons souls, darkest dungeons, pillars of eternity, fallout (most of the elder scrolls tracks are too iconic to use), tyranny, age of decadence, and more random stuff I like.

 

[That_Scumbag]

Usually Dungeon Synth. If the game is of a higher tech setting and involves a lot of gunfire, heavy metal of various sub genres.