D&D Soundtrack

I saw the D&D soundtrack in the FLGS today; the one by Midnight Syndicate or whatever their names are. Anyone have this baby yet? What's it like? The store owner described it as vaguely "Lord of the Rings" soundtrack-like, or "Last of the Mohicans" in a dungeon. I'm not sure I know what that means. ;)
 

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There are previews you can listed to in MP3 format all over the place - check out yesterday's news (Monday) on the main page, also there are previews at Gaming Report (gamingreport.com) and RPGNow.com, as well as a few on Midnight Syndicate's site itself (midnightsyndicate.com).

In fact, with the number of previews available for free, I'm not sure there's any need to buy the CD. :D
 
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I dunno about this... the last gaming-specific-soundtrack-item-thing I purchased was "Songs of the Future" or "Futuresongs" or something like that for Cyberpunk 2020... and it stank. :D

For my D&D soundtrack, I just pull the .mp3 files from Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and 4 and burn them onto a disc. They're really nice.
 
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I bought it at Gen Con and used it a week later in an adventure.

Overall, the tracks are good quality--not John Williams, but nicely done. They all easily convey emotion and feeling.

For example, next time your players run into an Orc horde--use the "Beasts on the Borderlands" track. Think of what 100 orcs or dwarves sound like marching, clanging their shields in unison and that describes the track (set to a deep bass background music of course)

My favorite track is "Deep Trouble" which I used for a combat sequence. It has a very anxious, tense combat sound and invokes an image of perilous combat.

I thought the weakest tracks were those that were repititious--of which there are a couple. However, even those (Relic Uncovered and Ancient Temple come to mind) have their place in any adventure.

Before purchasing the score, I recommend 1) previewing it on Midnight Syndicate's sight and 2) consider how you will use it in your game.

Music is tough to use properly while playing because it won't appeal to everyone's tastes but my players all commented that it added to the adventure.

I previewed each track ahead of time and wrote down my thoughts of the appropriate time to use each of them in the game.

You will want to put some of the tracks on repeat to use as background music.
Track 6: Stealth and Cunning was used in my game on repeat because the party was travelling in the Underdark, then I switched to Track 8: Skirmish, when combat occured.

I hope this helps and would be glad to entertain more questions.
 


I've heard Midnight Syndicate before. A friend had their "Vampire" inspired material.

If you like synthesized tracks that sound like a mediocre movie soundtrack, this group is just for you.

For anything of musical interest, forget 'em.
 

From the previews I've heard Wombat is right, far too bland for me.

If you really want gaming theme music I think you'd do better to catch the music from Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and my favourite, Planescape Torment!
 

apocalypstick said:
For my D&D soundtrack, I just pull the .mp3 files from Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and 4 and burn them onto a disc. They're really nice.
And I thought I was the only one who did that! Of course, lately, I've kept them in mp3 format, ripped a bunch of other movie soundtracks into mp3 format too, and put the whole shebang on a disc and played that.
 

i love midnight syndicate--sure it's not super "musical" or anything, but damn, it's some good tunes that get moods across pretty well. I highly recommend any or all of their CDs.
 

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