D&D General Campaign theme song?

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

My table's never had a "campaign theme song," and none of them were custom, but we have had "character theme songs" before, which we just pulled from popular music that most people know. The main one was The Chicken Dance. For a paladin. That swore the Oath of Conquest. (Yeah, I know it's weird.)

But we also had Stayin' Alive (for a Dwarf Artificer), U Can't Touch This (Halfling Swashbuckler Rogue), Another One Bites the Dust (Shadar-Kai Monk, granted after they were killed by a Beholder's Disintegration Beam).

 

[not-so-newguy]

Several decades ago we use to hum the Raiders of Lost Ark map sequence song for all overland travel.


I'm old

 

[Lanefan]

My table's never had a "campaign theme song," and none of them were custom, but we have had "character theme songs" before, which we just pulled from popular music that most people know. The main one was The Chicken Dance. For a paladin. That swore the Oath of Conquest. (Yeah, I know it's weird.)

But we also had Stayin' Alive (for a Dwarf Artificer), U Can't Touch This (Halfling Swashbuckler Rogue), Another One Bites the Dust (Shadar-Kai Monk, granted after they were killed by a Beholder's Disintegration Beam).

Quite a few of our characters have player-chosen theme songs of one of three types:

someone else's song as-is (e.g. Money Makes the World Go Round is the theme of one particularly greedy thief), or
someone else's song with new words put to it (e.g. one PC's famous catchphrase was "Hear me out", so his theme is a rewording of Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand), or
an original song done by us.

Your Halfling Swashbuckler shares its theme song with one heavy-metal tank PC here.

 

[Umbran]

My table's never had a "campaign theme song," and none of them were custom, but we have had "character theme songs" before, which we just pulled from popular music that most people know.

So, in the past, we had a sort of tradition - when a new campaign started, we would play the new characters for a a couple of sessions. Then, everyone would submit to the GM one or two song recommendations for every character except their own. The GM would compile this into a campaign playlist.

 

[Musing Mage]

Our games often start with this sort of tone...




but at some point will inevitably shift over to...