Session playlists

[Paladineyddi]

Hello playground.

I am wondering if any of you have know about a playlist collection suitable to fantasy style play.

I mean a few playlists with moods such as: horror, victory, danger. that kind of stuff.

I am working on my own but it would be real nice not having to do all this work :P

Thank you.

[Spider_Jerusalem]

I used to have playlists for my games. I often separated songs for specific places, important NPCs, battle themes and other stuff. I used things such as soundtracks (varying from WoW to western movies. Movie soundtracks can actually help a lot, since there are movies that aren't even fantasy that have excelent soundtracks for epic roleplaying), that Midnight Sindicate album made specifically for D&D and sometimes classical music. I normally didn't use modern music to keep the "medieval" feeling.

Then I decided to try something different in the campaign I'm DMing now. Instead of using music, I use background noise. Nature sounds, rain, animals, wolves howling, flames spreading for fireballs. There are some programs and websites that can help you find, mix or create the appropriate background sound you want and use them at the right time. At our present games, I'm using this site to create nature background noise, this one for quick sounds, such as fireballs, thunders and animals, and I use Syrinscape to mix them and play at our games. So far, it's working okay.

[Dr Bwaa]

Obligatory link to the one I can remember the name of off the top of my head.

Seriously, there are a lot of threads for this on this very forum; one pops up at least every couple of weeks. Just look around a bit; there's a lot of very good stuff that's not included in Welknair's playlist. I'd tell you how many of them come up for a search just for "music" in the roleplaying games subforum, but the server is being problematic. I should prepare to delete my inevitable double-post...

[inexorabletruth]

Try Leonard Rosenman's score for Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. I know that LotR references in D&D can be a bit tiresome, but it is a great score, and fewer people will recognize it as LotR theme music. Most of them will just assume that it is just a great epic fantasy soundtrack.

[Averis Vol]

here are some I use, they fit some places, others they don't. I used to have a whole DnD Orchestra by some....well, orchestra named like nightfall or something, it was really cool. shame its on my old laptop