Music for Games

I know it's not for everyone, but I personally love including music in games. How about you?

• GP has its own Music Library, to which you can add.

• @Kalajel's Resources and Free Games lists Playlists for RPGs

• @Phil_Ozzy_Fer posted about Dungeon Synth last month.

• One "problem" I used to have was finding the perfect music but it's too short for the scene. Or I only like a portion of it, and the rest is garbage. That was until I discovered YouTube On Repeat. You can create an infinite loop of your selected YouTube video - or just the portion you want, by using the Start and End sliders! You're welcome.

• I only run 1 game. Here's the music I've compiled for it (so far):

Battle Music
Darkest Dungeon - Battle Music
The Night of Long Fangs (Long Version)
Halo 5: Guardians OST- "Meridian Crossing" 4:08
The Witcher Boss Battle Music - Better Loop (HD) 5:16
The Witcher Music: Battle Music 4:29
Music of Diablo III - Boss Battles Part 1 11:43
Epic Cinematic | BRAVE | Epic Music Mix - Epic Action | Epic Music VN
Two Steps From Hell - Protectors of the Earth
Two Steps From Hell - Black Blade
Two Steps From Hell - Fire Nation (for Camaxacal?)
Two Steps From Hell - Skyworld
Two Steps From Hell - Strength of a Thousand Men (Extended Version)
World's Greatest Battle Music Ever - 1 hour - 20 Tracks (MrEpicOSTs Re-upload)
Legion (Epic Action Drama)
Break Their Will
Endgame by Goran Dragaš
Project Civ OST | Eannatum War Theme | Ancient Sumerian Melody

Various Background & Ambient
Various ambient
Snowy mountain peak
Blacksmith's shop
Fantasy Music by Brandon Fiechter
Hill of the Skull
Diablo 1 - Caves
Diablo 1 - Catacombs
Diablo 1 - Hell
Diablo 1 - Cathedral
Dream Is Collapsing (climax)
Waiting For A Train (climax)

Pradesh (a city-state inspired by India)
Intro
Om Chanting with Temple Bells
Charge of the War Elephants
Festival/Market
Quiet, Rusty Sewer (Ambient)
Baldur's Gate Down to the Sewers
Baldur's Gate Sewer Battle

The High Seas
Epic Pirate Music Instrumental - The High Seas
Pirate Music - Pirate Raid
Two Steps From Hell - Norwegian pirate

The East
Golden Talon Sanctuary
Epic Asian Drumming - War, Battle, Kungfu Music
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Night Fight Theme Music

I've found some other soundtrack sites which I'll be adding to my resource page eventually.

I would love to start incorporating music or audio into my posts but can you embed them or just have to include a link to the audio source? Honestly I haven't looked at the GP library so not sure how it even works.

I usually leave a link to the audio source.

Yeah same here.

I love music and ambience in my RL games, really sets the tone. I use Battlebards, mostly.

I usually shy away from anything that requires registration, but have heard lots of good things about Battlebards. Maybe I'll finally sign up. :-)

I've heard good things about both battlebards and Sirenscapes. both are used in podcasts that I listen too. Since I don't have a RL group and I don't think it would be cool to post their music here I haven't really investigated it that much.

I just discovered Gloryhammer thanks to this thread in the Games Tavern! Awesome! :-D

Anybody else give their characters theme songs?


Urthask, son of Galazur
Riders On The Storm


Valrakas the Minotaur
Rhinosaur


Torden Stormhammer
Brewing Up A Storm
Thunderstruck


Qael Galar, human fighter (AD&D)
Wigwam


Kaxaon, the Unchained
Switch Opens


Rufio the Ruffian, human brawler
Wild Boys


OOLIN, a Mechanical Jack who Fuses Mind and Machine (a cobbled jumble)
Hannah's Theme

I actually did it for Milo Cobblepot in the 5E Swashbuckling game we're playing together Jabes.

Vent Follet.

I also did it for a RL game DM'd by my friend. I picked this song for my half-drow Olin'myrdax "Dax" Torana.

And for Karabekian ?

I got a feeling I'm fallin'

Good stuff, @kalajel! But for me Milo always brings to mind the Bad Piper :-D
Haha that's perfect! Karabekian approves!

Yeah, this was also an inspiration for Milo. I still want to find that flaming bagpipes magic item eventually. :P

Fantasy: RPG soundtrack by Luigi Maiello
(Spotify playlist).

I just came across this. H.P. Lovecraft/Cthulhu inspired music
(spotify playlist). And then I discovered that there's a whole genre out there of music inspired by the Cthulhu mythos! Good stuff!

You should look up Adrian Von Ziegler. He's a fantastic composer and has alot of his stuff on his youtube channel.

I'll do that. Thanks for the tip! :-)

(link to spotify playlist)

Midnight Syndicate is awesome. I use it in my (IRL) World of Darkness games, kicking the playlist over to that periodically. Players get all creeped out because MS does that and they know I triggered it for a reason.