(gotta love Warrior on the Edge of Time and Chronicle of the Black Sword, both heavily influence by Moorcock)
When I need really dark music I pull out Glenn Danzig's Black Aria
invincibleoverlord wrote:The Conan movie soundtrack is a nice treat as well for background music.
grodog wrote:Deadlord36 wrote:I'm curious: Does anyone else put on tunes during D&D? If so, what music? If it's Poison, please don't answer.Depends on the evening's game and focus of activity, actually: any given night could include dark and haunting music from early Tangerine Dream (Rubycon, Zeit), early Pink Floyd ("One of These Days" or "Meddle"), old Yes (great for elven music), authentic medieval/renaissance music (lutes, harps, harpsicords, etc.), choral (medieval monks, Chanticleer), dark pop (Porcupine Tree's later work, Black Box Recorder), etc. Depends on what's going on and the game that we're playing.On the metal front, I've variously used AC/DC, Queensryche, 'Maiden, Rush (nothing like a little 2112 Overture to kick off a combat!), Hawkwind (gotta love Warrior on the Edge of Time and Chronicle of the Black Sword, both heavily influence by Moorcock), etc.When I need really dark music I pull out Glenn Danzig's Black Aria, Godspeed You Black Emperor (and related bands), Soulmatrix, King Crimson ("Devil's Triangle" from In the Wake of Poseidon), and such. I only use these for special occasions like the summoning of Demogorgon, the activation of a monstrous artifact, the opening of miles-wide gates to Limbo, etc.
Deadlord36 wrote:I'm curious: Does anyone else put on tunes during D&D? If so, what music? If it's Poison, please don't answer.
Xaxaxe wrote:Man, I love a good soundtrack, especially those with "heroic" sounding music.However, I found one major problem with using soundtracks in gaming sessions: many of us RPG-types are all also very media-savvy and hip to pop culture. Recognizable music has the potential to turn a gaming session into a debate on the merits of various movies.Lesser-known soundtracks and/or most classical music usually works a lot better, though. It depends on the group.
KingOfPain wrote:Could be worse though...it could have been like the Dungeons and Dragons movie. Neither the movie nor the soundtrack were particularly memorable.
zhowar1 wrote:There's a line from a song, Brouhaha, from the latest Beastie Boys album that goes:"Just back from Japan and ooh I'm laggin' Goin' rao rao with the dungeon dragon"(If I recall correctly it's Mike D with these lyrics)
Daimajin wrote:Love to pop in anything Marillion/Pink Floyd but people generally gripe at anything with vocals