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<blockquote data-quote="sjmiller" data-source="post: 1999775" data-attributes="member: 17262">Whenever this topic comes up I am always fascinated by it.&nbsp; Back in my early days of gaming (late 70s and early 80s) we used to play albums or tapes of our favorite music while playing.&nbsp; Not terribly loud, but enough to provide background noise.&nbsp; These days I run a game with 9 players, so there's plenty of noise to begin with, but the group has 3 professional musicians, 1 semi-professional, and all the rest are amateur musicians.&nbsp; This means that music tends to distract the group, to say the least.What I am really wondering though, is how people who use music in their games actually use it.&nbsp; Is music playing all the time?&nbsp; Do you only play songs at particular moments?&nbsp; Do you play the whole song, or just snippets?&nbsp; If someone could describe their use of music in a game session from beginning to end, then maybe I can see why it is so popular with some groups.&nbsp; I just never saw the need for it, except to give you something to listen to when you are not part of the action.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sjmiller, post: 1999775, member: 17262"] Whenever this topic comes up I am always fascinated by it. Back in my early days of gaming (late 70s and early 80s) we used to play albums or tapes of our favorite music while playing. Not terribly loud, but enough to provide background noise. These days I run a game with 9 players, so there's plenty of noise to begin with, but the group has 3 professional musicians, 1 semi-professional, and all the rest are amateur musicians. This means that music tends to distract the group, to say the least. What I am really wondering though, is how people who use music in their games actually use it. Is music playing all the time? Do you only play songs at particular moments? Do you play the whole song, or just snippets? If someone could describe their use of music in a game session from beginning to end, then maybe I can see why it is so popular with some groups. I just never saw the need for it, except to give you something to listen to when you are not part of the action. [/QUOTE]

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