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<blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 3280200" data-attributes="member: 29746"><p>I would say it depends on the enemy and the PCs- but then, I have a huge music collection converted to mp3, and nearly always have a line of albums and favorite tracks queued up to play when I'm running a game.</p><p></p><p>But here's an example. {<strong>WARNING:</strong> Spoilers for <em>Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil</em> and <em>Age of Worms</em> ahead!} One of my current games features a mostly Evil-aligned party bent on taking down a mysterious Cult of a Dark God, for which I have combined elements from <em>Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil</em> with elements of the Kyuss religion glimpsed in <em>Age of Worms</em>. >[spoiler]The last session was entirely occupied by a battle wherein the party started their second assault on the Black Spike; the Triad and the Doomdreamers were expecting them to come fairly soon but not with precise timing. The party teleported into the Inner Fane crater, and found it filled practically to the brim with Kyussian undead of various stripes. I pulled the Ulgurstasta Sorcerer and its attendant Earthcancer Centipedes and Mindkiller Scorpions from <em>Into the Wormcrawl Fissure</em>, added three advanced Ulgurstastas using the stats for the Apostle of Kyuss from <em>The Champion's Belt</em>, and added over 300 generic Spawn of Kyuss mainly to occupy the area-effect blaster mages.[/spoiler]< The battle took us an entire session, plus an hour in a second session, to run, and through it all I had theme music playing in the background. For this battle, I went with various tracks from the <em>Kill Bill</em> soundtracks; the idea of showdown between two evil forces seemed uniquely appropriate and set a suitably epic mood for my mind.</p><p></p><p>Other times, I've used tracks from the boss monsters of <em>Final Fantasy</em> games, <em>Secret of Mana</em> and <em>Legend of Mana</em>, <em>Chrono Trigger</em> and <em>Chrono Cross</em>, and various other movie and game STs that seemed to fit the situation in the game well. I can get behind any or all of the recommendations from posters above, under the correct circumstances. <em>Conan</em> scores are a perennial favorite for any fantasy game, <em>Carmina Burana</em> is perfect for dark fantasy, horror, and just about anything involving demons or other fiends, and others all have their niche. Ulrick's note about the crowd noise from <em>Symphony and Metallica</em> evoking the BBEG's destruction in a city is a perfect example of this sort of theming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paradox42, post: 3280200, member: 29746"] I would say it depends on the enemy and the PCs- but then, I have a huge music collection converted to mp3, and nearly always have a line of albums and favorite tracks queued up to play when I'm running a game. But here's an example. {[b]WARNING:[/b] Spoilers for [i]Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil[/i] and [i]Age of Worms[/i] ahead!} One of my current games features a mostly Evil-aligned party bent on taking down a mysterious Cult of a Dark God, for which I have combined elements from [i]Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil[/i] with elements of the Kyuss religion glimpsed in [i]Age of Worms[/i]. >[spoiler]The last session was entirely occupied by a battle wherein the party started their second assault on the Black Spike; the Triad and the Doomdreamers were expecting them to come fairly soon but not with precise timing. The party teleported into the Inner Fane crater, and found it filled practically to the brim with Kyussian undead of various stripes. I pulled the Ulgurstasta Sorcerer and its attendant Earthcancer Centipedes and Mindkiller Scorpions from [i]Into the Wormcrawl Fissure[/i], added three advanced Ulgurstastas using the stats for the Apostle of Kyuss from [i]The Champion's Belt[/i], and added over 300 generic Spawn of Kyuss mainly to occupy the area-effect blaster mages.[/spoiler]< The battle took us an entire session, plus an hour in a second session, to run, and through it all I had theme music playing in the background. For this battle, I went with various tracks from the [i]Kill Bill[/i] soundtracks; the idea of showdown between two evil forces seemed uniquely appropriate and set a suitably epic mood for my mind. Other times, I've used tracks from the boss monsters of [i]Final Fantasy[/i] games, [i]Secret of Mana[/i] and [i]Legend of Mana[/i], [i]Chrono Trigger[/i] and [i]Chrono Cross[/i], and various other movie and game STs that seemed to fit the situation in the game well. I can get behind any or all of the recommendations from posters above, under the correct circumstances. [i]Conan[/i] scores are a perennial favorite for any fantasy game, [i]Carmina Burana[/i] is perfect for dark fantasy, horror, and just about anything involving demons or other fiends, and others all have their niche. Ulrick's note about the crowd noise from [i]Symphony and Metallica[/i] evoking the BBEG's destruction in a city is a perfect example of this sort of theming. [/QUOTE]
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