Your epic musics and what not

[Puke]

Hello guys !

I did a quick search and surprisingly did not find any topic about music in D&D, but maybe I did it wrong. Please tell me if such topic exists, i'll close this one.

What are your go to musics during your campaigns ?

Here are some I use :

For battles :

The first one of the video, when I'm building the tension before the battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeXoACwOT1o

Two steps from Hell :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qTghUgMOeY
(this one and others)

Battle 5 from Haegemonia :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YCGfzCACFk

The two towers (LOTR) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBLziDjkd7E

The Witcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAGm9MTyRJ8
Pretty cool rythm music for battles

Cool ambiant :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCeT_plID5Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9mC0JRkIMU
This one is for sewers and underground caves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrbq9x0fsyQ
Some rich villa, or peaceful town


Exposition music :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnf2oO2TJ_g
I use this one when describing a big scene with a lot of baddies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ocBnraYhc
Lotr again, ofc


Your turn !

BTW if anyone has a good apocalyptic music that would fit for an end of the world scene... I would be very grateful !

[Bohandas]

BTW if anyone has a good apocalyptic music that would fit for an end of the world scene... I would be very grateful !

(note: some songs contain coarse or controversial language)

RagNaRok (by GWAR)
We Kill Everything (by GWAR)
The Bloody Pit of Horror suite (by GWAR)
They Seallowed the Sun (by GWAR)
Comet Song (by Dethklok)
Pride of Man (by various artists)
Everlasting Bomb (by Widescreen Mode)
We Will All Go Together When We Go (by Tom Lehrer)
Eve of Destruction (by P. F. Sloan and Barry McGuire)
It's Only the End of the World (by Harley Poe)
The End of the World As We Know It (by REM)
Flee! (by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Space Ghosts (by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Zalgo Invocation (as recorded by VladimirViskoff)
No Place Like Home (by DEVO)
Black Hole Sun (by Soundgarden)
Dies Irae (by Mozart) (this one is probably the most ambient of the songs listed and closest to what you're looking for)

[Catullus64]

I don't tend to use recorded music very much as a DM, it mostly gets distracting.

One time, I did use Close to Board from the soundtrack of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. It's pretty much the ideal swashbuckling soundtrack.

Now, when I play a Bard, you can bet I let my singing voice off the hook; I typically rework the tunes of existing folk melodies and give them new, canonical lyrics. One of my fondest gaming memories was from a session where not much happened at all. We were on a quest of great import, but for now we were simply travelling through an empty land. On a mild evening with bright stars in the sky, we sat around the fire and some Dwarfen stew, and told each other about our homes and our lives. When the talk came to lost loves, I told of a woman I had left behind to seek adventure. I took up my harp and sang the song I had written to her. Its tune sounds something like The Holly and the Ivy, though with a few notes in different places and a changed verse structure.

I'll crown thy lily forehead
with wreath of sage and broom,
and from thy new-sprung flow'rbed
I'll pluck the fairest bloom.
For when I am a-flying
Across the Shadowed Sea,
I fain to still be sighing
for the blossom plucked of thee.

[Bohandas]

Its tune sounds something like The Holly and the Ivy, though with a few notes in different places and a changed verse structure.

I'll crown thy lily forehead
with wreath of sage and broom,
and from thy new-sprung flow'rbed
I'll pluck the fairest bloom.
For when I am a-flying
Across the Shadowed Sea,
I fain to still be sighing
for the blossom plucked of thee.

You could also sing it to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme