Comments on: What Music Is Playing During Your Battle?

By: Tracyn'tar

Tracyn'tar — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:56:50 +0000

I would recommend many songs by the group Two Steps from Hell, especially those off their albums “Dynasty”, “Nero”, “Power of Darkness”, and “Volume 1″.

By: Thovan Spelloyal

Thovan Spelloyal — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:46:01 +0000

My soundtrack that I’m working on is as follows:

The Chosen Ones – Dream Evil
Indestructible – Disturbed
The Night – Disturbed
Iside The Fire – Disturbed
Through The Fire And Flames – Dragonforce
Hero – Skillet
Igniisis Dance – Wrath Of Killenstein
The Chosen Roadie – Brutal Legend Official Soundtrack
Dream Warriors – Dokken
Cry Of The Banshee – Brocas Helm
Drink The Blood Of The Priest – Brocas Helm
Hall Of The Mountain King – Savatage
Swords And Tequila – Riot
Destroy The Orcs – 3 Inches Of Blood
I Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
The Gambler – Kenny Rogers
The Maid That Sold Her Barley – Déanta
Nemo – Nightwish
Voodoo – Godsmack
Midnight Blue – Slayers! Soundtrack
Headstrong – Trapt
Black Fire – Dragonforce
Black Winter Night – Dragonforce
Valley Of The Damned – Dragonforce
Enemy – Days Of The New
The Bard’s Tale Soundtrack
Holding Out For A Hero – Bonnie Tyler
In The End – Linkin Park
The Pretender – Foo Fighters
Bad Company – Bad Company
Viva La Vida – Coldplay
Lonely Soul – Unkle
Bring Me To Life – Evanescence
Lightning Strikes – Ozzy Osbourne
Dragula – Rob Zombie
Head Like A Hole – Nine Inch Nails
Heart Of A Dragon – Dragonforce
Twilight Zone – Golden Earring
Hunger Stike – Temple Of The Dog
18 And Life – Skid Row
Ten Thousand Fists – Disturbed
My Own Prison – Creed
Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked – Cage The Elephant
Blaze Of Glory – Bon Jovi
Wanted Dead Or Alive – Bon Jovi
The Balad Of Bilbo Baggins – Leonard Nimoy
The Day That Never Comes – Metallica
The Axeman – Omen
One Shot At Glory – Judas Priest
Am I Evil? – Diamond Head
God Of Thunder – KISS

By: Dieties! A D&D Love Story — Dungeon's Master

Dieties! A D&D Love Story — Dungeon's Master — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:31:46 +0000

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By: Kensan_Oni

Kensan_Oni — Wed, 26 May 2010 03:49:22 +0000

@skywise (P.S. Elfquest fan?)

I got my Stardust soundtrack from Itunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/stardust-music-from-motion/id261481977 You probably can also order it from Amazon.

By: Wimwick

Wimwick — Wed, 26 May 2010 03:33:32 +0000

@ Everyone
Thanks to everyone for providing new options for soundtracks during D&D sessions. Some great idea’s and inspiration sources.

@ Icosahedrophilia
You make a good point about shying away from popular music/music with lyrics as this could easily be a distraction at the table.

By: Icosahedrophilia

Icosahedrophilia — Sun, 23 May 2010 07:53:04 +0000

I prefer to stay away from familiar music and music with lyrics, as I find my players getting distracted. I blog occasionally about RPG music in the irregular "Dungeons & DJs" series on Icosahedrophilia. .-= Icosahedrophilia´s last blog ..Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 67: The Sands of Time, Part 4 =-.

By: Paul M

Paul M — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:15:27 +0000

If i use any, these would be some

Ride of the Valkyries – Wagner
Dogs of War – Pink Floyd
Imperial Death March – John Williams
Run like Hell – Pink Floyd
Veteran of the Psychic Wars – Blue Oyster Cult

By: skywise

skywise — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:39:29 +0000

Oh man! I love soundtracks for D&D Games. I have my iPod and dock set up to play with a bunch of different play lists: for fights, for dungeon crawling, taverns, towns, temples, etc…

I pretty much only use soundtracks:
Silent Hill
The Fountain
BSG
Pirates of the Caribbean
Gladiator
The Last Samurai
Conan the Barbarian
Baldur’s Gate
Diablo
Warcraft

So for instance my current game takes place on an astral yacht. Most of the game is Battlestar and Pirates, but when they encounter the fall realm, i have a mixture of silent hill and the fountain.

@Kensan_Oni been looking for the Stardust soundtrack EVERYWHERE. where did you find it?
.-= skywise´s last blog ..New Game! =-.

By: Flightless

Flightless — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:58:49 +0000

I used a lot of music when running games, and the music varied with the system. As an overall rule I found that instrumental music or music in other languages tended to work better, although I’d use sometimes stuff with vocals during combat. Have more stuff than you need try to sort it into groups by atmosphere e.g. combat, tension, chase scenes etc

Here are my favourites, with explanations
The Enid – Last Judgement/In the region of the Summer Stars, Childe Roland. A band making classical style music with rock instruments, sweeping, excessive and just what any game needs. If you only listen to / use one thing I suggest this is it

Jan Garbarek + The Hilliard Ensemble – Parce Mihi Domine. Late Medieval chant with jazz saxophone. For the moment when it goes into slow motion like the cave troll fight in the Fellowship film

Steve Hackett – The Steppes, Slogans, Darktown Riot and lots more. Does brooding menace very well but does combat music too with the faster stuff.

Rush – La Villa Strangiato. Most Rush instrumentals make good D&D music

If you don’t mind vocals there is a lot of fantasy themed European power metal that does EPIC – try Dream Evil whose first cd Dragonslayer is totally quest friendly; Hammerfall, Rhapsody of Fire and Dragonforce.

Therion are good for dungeon crawling too, Wagner meets metal

Finally there’s a bunch of instrumental post rock that has appeared recently which is fairly rpg friendly particularly Beware of Safety, Giants and Russian Circles

Good gaming to you!

By: Kensan_Oni

Kensan_Oni — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:38:22 +0000

Oooo… Theme Music! I have too many to choose from…

Barbossa is Hungry – POTC:COTBP soundtrack
Mind War (part 2) – Babylon 5 Soundtrack
Anvil of Crom – Conan the Barbarian soundtrack
Asteroid Belt – Empire Strikes Back Soundtrack
Ultimate War – Hook Soundtrack
Septimus – Stardust Soundtrack
Elenore – Gone in 60 Seconds Score
Nemisis – A Knight’s Tale Score
Mars – Holts The Planets
High Energy Protons – Juno Reactor
Triumph – Chrono Cross Soundtrack (When the battle ends, of course)
Full of Life – Protricity, Relics of the Chozo (Ocremix.com)
The Hyperion Overture – Echoes of War
Legacy of Terror – Diablo III soundtrack
A Tenuous Pact – Echoes of War
Corneria – Star Fox OST

… and oh, how I could go on and on…