Music for your game

[tedcahill2]

If you like having music at your games, and haven't heard Two Steps from Hell, you're welcome.

[AnimeTheCat]

Two Steps From Hell, E.S. Posthumous, Globus, and the like are all pretty great.

[Psyren]

http://tabletopaudio.com/

I also agree, ESP are awesome.

[martixy]

Oh, we have.

Also Vindsvept.

Dealing with pirates? Being pirates? Check out Alestorm.

Want to see the dwarven anthem? Diggy away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWz0qVvBZ0).

[NoAnonimo]

Videogames OST & Movies Soundtracks are really good, too.
Check Assasin Creed or Resident Evil soundtracks.
For epic battles, Final Fantasy have some really good ones.

[NoAnonimo]

http://tabletopaudio.com/

AWESOME!
On a related topic, do any of you knows a program that allows one to play sounds effect with a key? (Footsteps, crowds, fight sounds, carnival music, etc?).
I want to make an inmersive game soon, and It will really help! Thanks!

[Ellrin]

I honestly find the idea of using theme music for tabletop games really awkward and immersion-breaking. Maybe it's because the groups I play with tend to spend so much time chatting OOC, or because of how odd transitioning to a new track or repeating will tend to be if you really are fully immersed in what's happening on the table, but I just can't understand the appeal, myself.

Maybe if it could be set up with smooth transitions in response to what's happening without the DM getting up and thumbing through his mp3 player or messing with his laptop or whatever, sort of like you'd get in a TV show, it'd be less weird to me, but that sounds like a lot of work for the DM.

[Afgncaap5]

I don't like orchestrating things, but I do like general mood music.

80s music fits for Cosmic Patrol. I have a PotC/LotR/Mass Effect/Lindsey Stirling Pandora channel for most regular D&D.

And then once, for a Boss Rush, I made a custom YouTube playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwCLJmQDV-bpFytHIiML-uhyHFXAR2fwg) of boss rush-y, video game-y music.

[gorfnab]

I like Ancient FM (http://www.ancientfm.com/).

[Baby Gary]

I love TSFH! the others at my table are not to big on background music but they don't mind (that much) when my bard plays TSFH on a magic banjo, now that I have said that I see how that seems very stupid (which it is)

[Drakevarg]

I like to use music in the planning stages, but more often than not at the actual table anything more than general ambiance is simply distracting. Especially with combat music, which is by its nature pretty high-energy, but tabletop combat inevitably stretches well past most song lengths and doesn't really have much of a beat to it, so the discordance will eventually make the music more of a distraction than a mood-setter.

[AnimeTheCat]

While I'm listening to it, the Nier soundtracks are great for planning/general listening. Though for some they may sound too futuristic for d&d

[Buufreak]

Youtube has a 8 hour loop of smooth jazz. That usually works for me, but in time of logic puzzles I switch it up and play the water temple from OoT.