Queen_Dopplepopolis
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Where I do think it's really cool... Warforged need something totally rock 'n roll... something, Seven Nation Army-y (White Stripes)...
Foreword: this isn't intended to be an attack on you, Joshua. And I don't understand the specific linkage between metal and all types of fantasy, Led Zeppelin faux-occultism aside. It's just a viewpoint to consider.Joshua Dyal said:But, really, what the heck is modern metal music have to do with fantasy gaming? I see no correlation whatsoever. It'd like using the soundtrack of Pretty in Pink for the Lord of the Rings movies, yet nobody ever suggests that...
What "spacetime?" I'm not talking about using Vivaldi, and I'm certainly not talking about roleplaying a setting that resembles Italy in 1700. I'm talking about using "contemporary" music in my games; contemporary music like the soundtracks for Last of the Mohicans, Signs, Lord of the Rings or whatnot.rkanodia said:Interestingly enough, I think that modern music can often set a mood better than music that we try to associate with that spacetime. My reasoning is that, to my contemporary ears, music from long ago sounds old - but when it was written it was cutting edge, fresh, new. Most of what we call 'classical' music was, when it was written, popular music - designed to please an audience and thus garner favor (and thus money!) from a patron. Personally I think that the experience I get from listening to a Vivaldi remix, with a thumping bass and drum kick added to The Four Seasons, is much closer to the experience it created for a contemporary of Vivaldi's. The piano, the clarinet, the pipe organ, all of these represented the pinnacle of acoustic research and engineering for the first generation of musicians who played them, just as the electric guitar, AM synthesizer, and CD turntable have done so in more recent history.
Certainly not me. But music like techno or jazz, or metal has particular associations with today and our culture, making it problematic, in my opinion, as gaming music. Not only that, it's very distracting.On a side note, who says that music in a campaign world has to come from medieval and renaissance Europe?