reluctant to ask...

[Elrik_DarkFury]

We always hear metal,rock and heavy metal to get warm before playing but we have to stop the music before starting.With all this great music how can anyone concentrate in playing?We all begin to hum (the rhythme of the songs) the game gets screwd up and the Dm starts shouting "turn off this damn thing" .
Oh,and i hate techno.
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The Wizard

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

See this thread as well:

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=98766

There is also a thread I started somewhere about Character Theme Songs... but, it's not in my subscribed threads anymore...

Anyway... I really love music at the game... and, I really like a good metal song as a theme song... nothing is cooler than a bitchin' sword fight set to a song that REALLY rocks.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Funny. I listen to techno or EBM or futurepop for the same reason. I think that's much more "the mood" of Shadowrun than heavy metal.

In general, I might agree with you.

However, I was playing the Troll With A Bayoneted Sporting Rifle, A Dikoted Wallacher Combat Axe, And A Machine Gun (tm). As such, I figured metal was a bit more up his alley.

Brad

 

[mac1504]

BTW, has anyone any experience with this tool here?

http://www.rpgsoundmixer.com/main/index.php

It sounds interesting but I am not too sure if it would really make the whole music stuff easier to handle for a DM.

I purchased RPGSoundmixer about a month ago and have spent about a total of 6-8 hours learning the ins and outs as well as playing with all of the included sound files. I think it is a wonderful tool (for the amount I paid for it- about $20 US) and I put it to use for the first time this last weekend while running my campaign.

The players for the most part seemed to love it. Their first encounter was defending a dwarven clanhold's gate against an onslaught of orcs and a cave troll. I had sound effects for the cave troll, and when the troll made his appearance, and I played the sound effect of him growling... well, let's just say I wish I had taken a picture of their reactions

The tool makes it easy and nice to coordinate your theme music with sound effects. While the group was exploring a cave system, I had an ambient noise of dripping water and cavernous wind going while playing Mother Wendol's Cave from the 13th Warrior. It made for a much enhanced gaming experience, IMO.

The software comes with a good selection of sound effects, and between that and Toxic Bag's collection of sound effect CDs (and scouring the net for some free sound files) I've got a pretty decent collection.