Ever Write music for your game?

[Michael Morris]

I can't draw, so I write songs and themes for my setting. Many of them are here in mp3 format

http://www.enworld.org/downloads/index.php?cid=5

Anyone done this? And btw, anyone listened to those files other than Ed Greenwood (I gave him a disk with all of those on it and he said his group enjoyed it a lot).

 

[Laman Stahros]

I would love to listen to them, but, I can't seem to get my computer to find the file once the download completes. Any chance of putting zipped versions up for download? That way I would be able to choose where the blasted file goes on my hard drive and I would be able to find them.

 

[Crothian]

no, but I had a player play his guitar for theme music and gerneal fun for a few sessions.

 

[Kalendraf]

I've done this twice. Both had lyrics, but only the 1st used any music.

The first was back in the late 80's. It was an elvish ballad to help explain a prophecy for an epic 1-shot adventure. I even played and sang it for my group live.

The more recent was just over a year ago. I just came up with lyrics and borrowed a melody. And instead of singing it, I just typed it up and handed it to the bard when they made the appropriate bardic knowledge check. The song had a clue to a riddle, and also reciting the last line was the key phrase to unlock a magical seal.

If I had more time, I'd love to write more music for my games, but alas, I barely have enough time to get my adventures written.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I hunt down movie scores but limit myself to that. Classic music too.

Ah, if only Excaliber's soundtrack was still in print.

 

[francisca]

Not really. I made up some real raunchy pub songs in highschool and played them to set the mood once. We stopped playing D&D about 20 minutes into the adventure and went over to my buddies studio to jam. Hence, no more live music at the D&D table, as it was more conducive to dice chucking than kack and slashing.

 

[der_kluge]

I've written music (still do), but not specifically for D&D. I did transcribe some of my music for fife, which a character of mine played. My intent was to have one unique piece for each of her bardic music abilities. It didn't last, as I hate that class, and switched her to rog/sor instead.

What software do you use to write your tunes with?

 

[punkorange]

Morris, I downloaded some of your songs, I like them and might use them saturday when we play.