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Silus
2013-04-29, 06:00 PM
So I'm running a Pathfinder game in the next few days and I'm unprepared on the music front to help set the mood, and I turn to you, the people of the Playground, for help.

I require music to go to the following:

1. A castle deep in a Black Forest type setting owned by a queen that almost all other nobility go to for advice. I'm picturing it looking a bit like the Forest Temple from OoT mixed with a cathedral with the feel of semi-sacred ruins that have fallen into disrepair (broken walls and ceilings, ivy all over the walls, sunlight streaming in from the oddly intact stained glass windows, that sort of thing).

2. High in the boughs of a World Tree, going out towards a dead/dying section to locate a mysterious oracle. The feel I want to evoke is sort of....like the Forest Temple fro OoT (again) with the ambiance and feel of the Lost Woods from LoZ: Wind Waker (Massive corrupted tree type deal).

3. A crashed, possibly haunted space ship buried for millennia several miles under the earth. Dark hallways, the feeling that something is watching you from just beyond your torchlight, and the feel that you're someplace that is wholly alien and "not right".

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. This is the second game I'll have run and I really wanna make it memorable for the players.

Barsoom
2013-04-29, 06:33 PM
Google "Roleplaying soundtrack". There's some pretty good stuff out there.

Grinner
2013-04-29, 06:50 PM
1. "Travel II (U5 Amiga Theme) (http://lazarus.thehawkonline.com/music/Travel2.mp3)" from the Ultima V: Lazarus soundtrack
2. "Quotes I (Stones Remix) (http://lazarus.thehawkonline.com/music/Quotes1.mp3)" from the Ultima V: Lazarus soundtrack
3. "The Thing" from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. soundtrack (http://www.stalker-game.com/en/?page=soundtrack)

Suikadon
2013-04-29, 07:17 PM
Some possibilities (haven't played Wind Waker and haven't touched OoT for a looong time, so can't really say these would fit the feeling you want to evoke):


1 - Two Steps From Hell - From The Past
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZMgVjTqDXI)

2 - Step Into My Garden - Garry Schyman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7CEPwW0tx0) or Step Into My Gardens (Reprise) - Garry Schyman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRBeIGryO88) (might not be a good idea if your players played Bioshock. Recognizing the music might lessen the effect.

3 - Two Steps From Hell - Ashes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM5tdEzTAhM)

Hope this helps! Have fun!

Slipperychicken
2013-04-29, 07:22 PM
1. The Dance Begins. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eg1aI_aPcw&list=PL6A5E405DA65E5240)

3. Penumbra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt9iRAXonWA), Right Behind You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXF89XncRM&list=PL6A5E405DA65E5240), Parallel Dimensions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpR_GgTdG0g), The House of Leaves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptP8kcUWKGM).

Silus
2013-04-29, 07:53 PM
Thank ya'll for the suggestions =D

Slipperychicken
2013-04-29, 10:09 PM
Thank ya'll for the suggestions =D

No problem :)

Magatsu Izanagi
2013-04-29, 10:16 PM
Some offerings from the Persona 4 soundtrack, if you still need music suggestions: Corridor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruxws6DE4io), Who Goes There (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipVnNVSlXwo), Omen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsQLWgah-Ec). Corridor should fit equally well for the first two, while Who Goes There and Omen would go great for the third part.

Erasmas
2013-04-29, 10:23 PM
Also, try to think of movies that have a similar atmosphere or mood. Movie soundtracks are excellent and many of them evoke powerful emotional undertones and exciting action 'scenes', without being overly recognizable (most).