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<blockquote data-quote="EugeneZ" data-source="post: 5301482" data-attributes="member: 83605"><p>Strongly agree with Drazulfel. Dragonforce is great when it comes to playing Guitar Hero, but it just doesn't suit a fantasy setting. Unless all your players are speed metal fans, they will most certainly be turned off by it.</p><p></p><p>If you can get your hands on some music from companies like Immediate Music, they provide dozens and dozens of tracks of "trailer music" and much of it is quite appropriate for fantasy settings. They are diverse, so your players can each pick a theme that represents their characters. And they are quite short, so you can play the theme to underline how a certain scene or battle is related to a certain character without getting all the players sick to death of the noise.</p><p></p><p>For general gameplay, Drazulfel had some great suggestions which I can add to: The Midnight Syndicate makes mostly darkish Halloween music (perfect for Ravenloft or undead adventures) but they have an albus literally called Dungeons & Dragons which is worth picking up. E.S. Posthumus has three CDs... one is heavy on vocals, but the other two have some great mood tracks, several of which would be great for WotBS style army battles. Nox Arcana is another band that releases mood-based music. I often find tracks from their CDs useful for specific situations. Lastly, Juno Reactor isn't exactly a fantasy-music band and you risk a bit of the same Dragonforce-ish issues, they have some tracks that are logical and make perfect sense for DnD. There are several tracks on Labyrinth which are amazing, especially Narvas, which has got to be the most epic boss-fight music ever.</p><p></p><p>I would be remiss to not mention one of my recent favorites, a company called Sonic Legends that makes these things called Soundscapes. They're amateur musicians so their musicianship is not up to the par of some of the bands up there, but they make up for it with several factors: 1) Their compositions are themed for specific settings, like "Forest Battle." You actually hear arrows whizzing by and feet running through dry leaves. Awesome. 2) They are long. Usually just under ten minutes, and are created to loop. Since they all have special effects like running feet and clashing metal, looping their music rarely becomes tedious. 3) They are very cheap! $3 apiece and you can listen to previews and buy as few as you need.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EugeneZ, post: 5301482, member: 83605"] Strongly agree with Drazulfel. Dragonforce is great when it comes to playing Guitar Hero, but it just doesn't suit a fantasy setting. Unless all your players are speed metal fans, they will most certainly be turned off by it. If you can get your hands on some music from companies like Immediate Music, they provide dozens and dozens of tracks of "trailer music" and much of it is quite appropriate for fantasy settings. They are diverse, so your players can each pick a theme that represents their characters. And they are quite short, so you can play the theme to underline how a certain scene or battle is related to a certain character without getting all the players sick to death of the noise. For general gameplay, Drazulfel had some great suggestions which I can add to: The Midnight Syndicate makes mostly darkish Halloween music (perfect for Ravenloft or undead adventures) but they have an albus literally called Dungeons & Dragons which is worth picking up. E.S. Posthumus has three CDs... one is heavy on vocals, but the other two have some great mood tracks, several of which would be great for WotBS style army battles. Nox Arcana is another band that releases mood-based music. I often find tracks from their CDs useful for specific situations. Lastly, Juno Reactor isn't exactly a fantasy-music band and you risk a bit of the same Dragonforce-ish issues, they have some tracks that are logical and make perfect sense for DnD. There are several tracks on Labyrinth which are amazing, especially Narvas, which has got to be the most epic boss-fight music ever. I would be remiss to not mention one of my recent favorites, a company called Sonic Legends that makes these things called Soundscapes. They're amateur musicians so their musicianship is not up to the par of some of the bands up there, but they make up for it with several factors: 1) Their compositions are themed for specific settings, like "Forest Battle." You actually hear arrows whizzing by and feet running through dry leaves. Awesome. 2) They are long. Usually just under ten minutes, and are created to loop. Since they all have special effects like running feet and clashing metal, looping their music rarely becomes tedious. 3) They are very cheap! $3 apiece and you can listen to previews and buy as few as you need. [/QUOTE]
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