Aural stuff

[Musopticon?]

This has been puzzling me for a while: What kind of music do you use for backgrounds and perhaps tensing moments during your games? Soundtracks? Certain bands or acts? Your own? Or perhaps you just enjoy the pleasant roll of the dice and don't have any?

[J.E. Sawyer]

I try to use ambient stuff since music playing devices can't yet read my mind and know when the really big dramatic moments are going to arrive. For my Fallout pen and paper games, I use the Fallout soundtracks, Aphex Twin, and the Funeral Songs album.

[Rosbjerg]

I use ambient music as well .. or if I want complete control I borrow an IPod from a friend and select a wide variety of songs I can shuffle through (depending on the setting etc).. and thereby select the appropriate song to the appropriate moment ..

 

Soundtrack wise I like to use the score from Solaris (with George Clooney) that's, imo, some great ambient music ..

[Phosphor]

... and the Funeral Songs album.

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Excellent FO music.

I tend to like a mix of ambient (from soundscapes to dark ambient to more ethereal stuff), world, religious and "old" (medieval, ancient, etc) music for fantasy p&p.

[Judge Hades]

Normally I use the play lists that I used to inspire the campaign and events going on. I shift the playlist depending on the story that I am preparing for. There is however one song that always seem to pop up at tense moments of battle for some odd reason, without any manipuation by me and its always on the list once, and I do have it on random play.

 

It opens up with great electric violin solo withthe lyrics: Kill! Kill! Kill! Die! Die! Die! Die!

[Volourn]

Nothing. Soemtiems music is playing in the background; but that's usually just a coincidence.

[Laozi]

The theme music to Patton is all I need

[TravisPennington]

Hm, I've never really gone that in-depth with Pen and Paper RPGs. Never really used props of any sort.

 

Character sheets, books, a game master, a minimum of 3 players, some dice and an imagination is pretty much all I've played with. Not that I wouldn't be willing to do any of that. I just haven't found a group of people willing enough to be that dorky.

[BlueNinja]

Music?

 

My last few campaigns have all been played in places or circumstances where playing any sort of ambient music would have been nigh impossible. If I started, I think some of the people in my group would complain, or at least consider it a distraction from the main game.

[Eidolon]

For D&D medieval storyline I like the no-battle Morrowind soundtrack.

[Gabrielle]

Classical and Goth.

[EnderAndrew]

Depends on the game, and the particular session. I use classical and game soundtracks for D&D and the like. I often use industrial music for Vampire sessions.

[Walsingham]

If anyone is playing Gangrel, may I suggest using tracks from The Tigerlillies?

 

http://www.tigerlillies.com/brothel.html

 

The first hundred times you hear their stuff you hate it. After that, they're great.

[Musopticon?]

They're...interesting.

 

 

My thread lives! (!)