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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6066786" data-attributes="member: 19675">Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.Usually, we don't have anything on TV or my sound system.  Occasionally, if a big game is on, it plays in the background.  Other times, I'll put on some music we all like- usually, hard rock from the 70s-90s* or soundtracks from fantasy movies- on some kind of random cycle.I made only one particularly good intentional use of music in all my years of DMing: I used Kodo's "The Hunted" as the sound of the Anthro-Tigers hunting party starting their pursuit of the NAKED party...said hunt to begin after the Anthros finished their meal of fresh, spit-roasted cabin boys.  Results were stupendous- my veteran players started discussing the issue of being naked and about to be hunted by big tiger-men in the usual matter-of-fact way players discuss situations at the table while calmly telling me about how their party was headed into the jungle, etc.When I pressed "play" to start the music, one player immediately stopped what she was saying to other players and asked me "Those drums- is that the hunting party?""Yes."Instantly, the players demeanor changed.  They talked more rapidly and loudly.  They started ignoring each other's points.  Some got snappy as they got interrupted by others while trying to tell me what they were doing...never mind that they might have interrupted someone else themselves.In short, they acted like a real group of people being hunted by tigers.* One time, Black Sabbath's "Children of the Grave" came on just as the DM was about to reveal the impending undead attack on the party as they went through the graveyard.  Creepy!</blockquote>

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