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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eudaimic" data-source="post: 610288" data-attributes="member: 5991">I use music mostly every time I run a game (It's been many years ince I last ran D&D, so this mostly refers to Cyberpunk and Heavy Gear).I found that creating playlists ahead of time for specific parts of the scenario really does the trick. (Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine, The Bloodbath Dance from Blade (by Crystal Method) and so on... it was a rather aggressive game that).It worked great though, as my players entered the warehouse I leaned over and doubleclicked the 'warehouse battle.pls' file on my desktop, and the battle raged for hours <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />At other times just having atmospheric music running in the background can be a great motivator (though it looses its appeal if your playlist isn't long enough and the tracks are repeated 4-5 times...)I was actually just discussing this very same thing with some people on another board (<a href="http://www.minastirith.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=9;t=000097" target="_blank">http://www.minastirith.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=9;t=000097</a>). and here's the list I posted over there of fantasy gaming session soundtracks (feel free to add):Fellowship ST.Two Towers ST. (These two are rather obvious [] .Waterworld (Great adventure ST, which isn't known enough so as to make people go "Hey, isn't that 'movie-x'".Parts of Mythodia by Vangelis (Very big, very epic. If you haven't heard this, but enjoy Shore's work for the movies, you should get it asap!).El Greco by Vangelis (very slow, brooming feel! Almost as good as Mythodia.)Voices by Vangelis (parts of it are very spiritual in feel, very dreamy.)Parts from the 4 Adiemus records (Again, only parts are usable for various reasons. Most of it is simply too 'pop-y').Parts of The Book of Secrets by Loreena McKennitt.Bram Stoker's Dracula ST. (Though some is almost to recognizable, at least in my group)A track or two from Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonParts of Interview with the Vampire (Elliot Goldenthal is one of my favority ST. composers)Parts of Final Fantasy: The Spirits WithinParts of The Last of the MohicansThough almost to recognizable, parts of Gladiator.Lothlórien and Boadicea by Enya are quite good, as well as some of her other tracks, though their names escape at the moment.Conan the BarbarianParts of Prince of EgyptThe Messenger: The Story of Joan of ArcEl Greco (The Greek) by Vangelis. GREAT RPG album.While one of the guys over there mentioned Star Wars ST's, I never use those unless I'm actually playing SW (in which case they're obviously perfect).</blockquote>

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