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| Ch@pel06-01-04, 11:23 PM | Hi all. As a musician, I like using music to enhance the mood of a game (or any activity really). Unfortunately, I'm usually at a loss for what to play during a typical D&D game; I'm not into the metal-ly stuff that has D&D references (its seems like it would be distracting, no?) and I'm not into "period music" that sounds like the medievil Moody Blues. But I love the Eberron setting, with its noir feel, because it opens up the door for some really cool music. I put forth this to you, my fellow Eberron lovers... The tone of Eberron screams for jazz and early lounge music! The kind of joyfully dark, treacherous tunes you'd hear at a roaring '20s speak-easy. What a house guest, drunk on ill-gotten hooch, would play on a beat-up, slightly out of tune piano in a smokey back room at a party at Jay Gatsby's house. With everything I've read about it, really smokey, dirty music would be the perfect backdrop for this game. With this in mind, I put forth my character concept(s) for the best known bards in Sharn: The Dresden Dolls. (This is an actual band from Boston. They are freaking amazing, I've seen them many times and done sound for them too; just great people) Their image is very cabaret-punk, check out their website: dresdendolls.com (http://dresdendolls.com/) You look at their image and how they present themselves on stage (bowler's hats, painted white faces like mimes, etc.) and they just fit with Eberron so nicely. They will probably be playing in almost every tavern my PCs stop in all across the land, and I hope that you all will like them and make them part of the Eberron landscape as well. (I don't work for them or anything, I just really love the band and I'm so excited that they mesh perfectly with the Eberron setting.) |
| Ezekiel06-02-04, 07:07 AM | Jazz eh? Well, I do have the soundtrack from the animated film Metropolis. Could work very well with eberron. At least when you're running through the backstreets of Sharn. Maybe not for ruined-temple-crawling in Xen'drik. I'd use trusty Indiana Jones music for those scenes though, for sure! And I won't be a stranger to my small collection of Final Fantasy music either. Not only because I think it will fit, but because it's just beautiful music. |
| Ch@pel06-02-04, 01:46 PM | Word, Ezekiel. Its all about the environment. :) :bump: |
| Singing Urgosh06-02-04, 10:26 PM | I'm a BIG fan of the Mechwarrior 2 music. Although now old, this music can keep players on thier toes for hours. Usually like some form of mellow instrumentals with angel voice choruses, heavy drum beats and occasional trumpet blasts this stuff fits just about everything. It especially works well in dungeons, covert ops and unknown areas. If you know someone with it or own it yourself, throw it in the cd player, turn the lights down and let your mind go with the music.... Stay sane |
| Shas'O06-03-04, 06:16 AM | Id think some light Synthetics, possibly even some fusion Jazz as well, Im not much into reading about Eberron (because my heart will drop down and I will cry of its beauty and want it NOW.) but from what I have read, Im stoked. like STOKED. BAck to the music... My bet is definatly Jazz/Early 20's music/Synthetic stuff. I wont be a stranger to Music from Indiana jones, or Final fantasy tactics either. EDIT: and the music from Vagrant story would fit ruins too, since the game is set in a massive ruined city, |
| Brastan06-04-04, 05:06 AM | I'm a BIG fan of the Mechwarrior 2 music. Word! :ayyyy!: I still have mine, and I got the tracks on MP3 now to. Relisting to them... and track 24 has that I just walk in on something I shouldn't have feel... then a run for your life maybe? Track 28 is good to. Ya if you can find a persons with a copy (PC or Mac) take a listen, just watch out for Track 1 eh. Thanks for reminding me about that Singing Urgosh. So often I overlook the obvious especially when its right under my nose (or fingers in this case). Lest see if I've got anything. Hum, I you were crazy enough to by Mist 3 there are some music files in there...(not particularly good). Nope sorry, I'll go rummage around some-more. Sanity is a fleeting thing, especially when Dreams infringe on reality. At least my reality. *Edit* Bah... Again Under my nose. How do people feel about the music from Halo? I like it and it certainly has a different feel to it. |
| N'wah06-04-04, 06:26 AM | The music in Vagrant Story and FF Tactics were done by the same man- er, well, half of Tactics and All of Vagrant, I should say. But that's just me being a nerd. A lot of newer RPG soundtracks would work well for Eberron, though getting the high adventure protions is more along the lines of major motion picture soundtrack fare. It really depends on the setting. For big cities like Sharn, there should be some heavy moodiness, maybe a lot of saxaphone? I dunno why, I just see Sharn as one big pulp-era detective movie. Of course, some sort of ambient crowd noise would rock, but I wouldn't know where to get some, except to maybe rob the Neverwinter sound directory (I recall it having loopable background chatter). Dungeons let you play around with a lot of different styles- Xen'drik, being a large dungeon, would go great with some Indiana Jones and Conan, as well as some more modern composers (seeing as Conan used a lot of Holst's The Planets). For something really creepy, moody, or nationalistic, some Russian and German (Wagner, anyone?) composers were great. I'm really partial to Arvo Part; his stuff usually has a lot of feelings of loss, regret, and pain, as well as a mix of Russian Orthodox, so you could pick and choose a few of those. Wow, that was a lot of ranting. I'm done now. I swear. |
| boyecho06-04-04, 03:08 PM | i'm actually in an instrumental band that takes it's name from the drow language... and we've been jonesing for the opportunity to create something that fits a certain campaign style. our music never fit anything in forgotten realms, and might work in some of my more creepy planescape games. but, if what i'm getting from eberron, and your comments as well, i think we just might be able to come up with something fitting for this setting. i usually like very low background music... never anything with lyrics as it takes away from most of the campaign. [unless it's Flogging Molly playing during a tavern visit. which is just asking for trouble] as an aside, i also think this setting would lend well to howling cascading walls of feedback, ambience, some theremin action, and good old synthesizer. but i'm feeling you on some jazzy elements. |
| Harmony's Sorrow06-04-04, 03:58 PM | What are you waiting for boyecho? Get something assembled! I'd DEFINITELY pay for quality Eberron tunes!!! After all, I bought the D&D soundtrack for the RPG from Midnight Syndicate. It's got some great tunes, and being the nerd I am I spent a night selecting new title for the songs that were Eberron inspired. Help us! Please! |
| N'wah06-06-04, 12:22 AM | Y'know, I'd forgotten about Gladiator and Troy. They've got some good high adventure music, whether you liked them as movies or not. Might be worth considering. |
| The_Declaration08-12-04, 10:07 AM | i've decided to give a rebirth to this topic. i've recently heard two soundtracks that (IMO) fit reaaaaally well in the Eberron context: *X-men 2: I got into that OST through soundtracks.net: X-men 2 review (http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=114). The music of x-men 2 mixes very well heroic moments with more emotional ones. The soundtrack is a quite traditional interpretated by a classical orchestra, but it sounds very modern, that's why I'm thinking about this on in a Khorvaire campaign. Furthermore, I like the idea of using Super-hero soundtracks in the context of a fantasy setting that attempts to be pulp. *Hellboy: i'm not that much a superhero fan, so i didn't put so much interest in the movie, but i heard the music and i have to admit i was blow away. The soundtrack is really dark and gloomy, and modern at the same time. Perfect for a Sharn campaign IMO. |
| Doji_Kentaro08-13-04, 02:06 PM | For the most part, Eberrron needs a little blues, a little jazz, a little stirring soundtrack and a little rock. The main thing is that reguardless of what is used it has to feel right. |
| MrFilthyIke08-13-04, 02:53 PM | A soundtrack with an appropriate title would be the soundtrack to the movie Dark City (http://www.mediacircus.net/darkcity.html), by the director that also brought us The Crow and I, Robot. 1. Sway - Anita Kelsey 2. The Information - Course Of Empire 3. Just A Touch Away - Echo & The Bunnymen 4. Dark - Gary Numan 5. Sleep Now - Hughes Hall 6. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes - Anita Kelsey 7. Into The City 8. No More Mr. Quick 9. Emma 10. The Strangers Are Tuning 11. Memories Of Shell Beach 12. The Wall 13. Living An Illusion 14. You Have The Power Sway and Dark are to very good ones for Sharn. :) |
| MrFilthyIke08-13-04, 03:02 PM | Some Sharn-esque pictures: The "Woman" http://www.nwwalls.com/gallery/caps/darkcity/nwDarkCity070.jpg The "Inquisitive" http://www.nwwalls.com/gallery/caps/darkcity/nwDarkCity125.jpg The Freaky Enemy http://www.nwwalls.com/gallery/caps/darkcity/nwDarkCity169.jpg Just a few from http://www.nwwalls.com/CapsDarkCity.html |
| ChrisTheS08-13-04, 04:23 PM | Also the soundtracks to Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings, and the Diablo II and Warcraft III soundtracks (which were available with the collectors' editions of each game--I don't know if they're available separately or not). |
| Edymnion08-13-04, 04:52 PM | I think we're overlooking the obvious here guys. This setting was inspired by movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Pirates of the Carribbean, and The Mummy. Try looking to the soundtracks to those movies for music ideas. |
| MrFilthyIke08-13-04, 05:13 PM | I never look at the obvious :D |
| Save_vs_DM08-14-04, 12:27 AM | For those of you who bought the Temple of Elemental Evil game (which was actually quite fun, once the patches are installed) all the music was produced in mp3 format (an astounding leap of common sense on that one). I find it works well. Other (lesser known, probably) recommendations. (I'm glad someone mentioned Holst's Planet Suite) Dead Can Dance X-Files Soundtrack (this is pretty verbal though) Blackmore's Night (Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple fame actually has a few CDs of medieval folk/rock music. There are a few pieces that are just DEAD on. Plus you get to hear Ritchie do mandolin solo's that sould shame Gun's N' Roses). Floater has a few instrumentals over a few albumns that are perfect: From Glyph: ...But Rain Never Came, Midnight Ride, Intermezzo, Crawl Into You (this one has a dub from One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) - From Angles in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone: Our Heroe's Resolve (perfect for a short chase scene). Moodswings: some of their instrumental stuff is great for Eberron. I'd throw in a bit of Tom Waits when in Sharn's Underbelly - Bone Machine would be a good choice (again, these have lyrics). There is a band called Zubot & Dawson. They're primarily instrumental. The best way to discribe this music is Strang. It's sort of like bluegrass/jazz/folk music. It would be good for the Shadow Marches or perhaps the Eldeen Reaches. Moby's Ambient albumn would work well. And finally, a few of Rasputina's songs might work. Cheers, Save vs DM |
| Dalis08-14-04, 12:45 AM | For some reason, I feel that the group Muse fits the game. but then again, when I'm concerned, Muse always fits everywhere. |
| Joni-san08-14-04, 04:14 PM | Well IMO the Full Metal Alchemist (Best-Anime-Ever) OST has a lot of tunes that fit the theme of Eberron. One is especialy good for an Artificers Lab or Wizards Tower |
| Zen Storm08-14-04, 10:45 PM | I just saw AVP and I noticed a few times that some of the music on the soundtrack had an Eberron feel to it. Also Midnight Syndicate makes great music for gaming in all classical genres. |
| Splendide08-15-04, 07:48 AM | The Cinematic Orchestra for non-Sharn, non-dungeon locales. Cujo - Adventures in Foam for Sharn. Downbeat dark trip hop is pretty sweet for dungeoneering....Massive Attack, Amon Tobin's newer stuff. |
| Wudwaen08-15-04, 12:15 PM | I am thinking "Outrider" by Jimmy Page, and maybe some J.J. Cale. Instrumentals from Loreena McKennit, Connie Dover, and John McCutcheons, are good examples of music for most of Eberron. But I do have some original recordings of Robert Johnson also. Wudwaen |
| Joni-san08-15-04, 01:56 PM | I just remembered that the Sharn sourcebook will have a CD with 45 minutes worth of music. Oh and some clasical music might fit for Eberron. |
| araelethe08-15-04, 07:31 PM | I would recommend these Late Romantic Era composers, all excellent in their own right. Jean Sibelius Gustav Mahler Dmitri Shostakovich In the contemporary era, Howard Shore’s music for the film, The Cell was also interesting, if I remember correctly (though I’ll reserve comments on the film itself). - Araelethe |
| Flame_Drake02-10-05, 11:34 PM | **waves hands and casts revive thread** I go for the big, cinimatic movie soundtracks. Tan Dun is an amazing source of music for an Eberron game, His music can be just about anything that he feels it sould be. The Throne room/credits song from the origanal Star Wars is also decent, but I'd understand if people steered clear of it. The main theme from Jurassic Park also works well. An entire sound track that could work effectively for the setting is the one from the Disney adaptation of Tarzan. The entire track was composed by Phil Collins and while some people might not like that, give it a listen, especially "A wonderful place". Most of the peices fit well for Xen'drik. The Halo theme with the monk like voices might also work. For some reason I also keep thinking that "Salt of the Earth" by the Rolling Stones also fits but I can't place my finger on it. |
| Cloud Divider02-11-05, 01:30 AM | I really dig the Children of Dune soundtrack as well. It's got a number of really...cinematic, epic sweeping pieces (I wish I knew the proper music terminology to describe it adequately). The various title/theme tracks (Summon the Worms plus several of the battle themes) are quite excellent. They're definitely on the heroic side of the scale, and some tracks add quite a bit more exotic, middle-eastern flavor to them. I caught at least one track being played as bumper music during the last Olympics (for gymnastics, I think). I'm quite tempted to use Summon the Worms as "Campaign Trailer" theme music - play the music while giving the session recap/current session intro. Some of Walter John Williams' other pieces are pretty decent as well, but tend towards the excessive fanfare type stuff. I have one compilation of his, Summon the Heroes that's essentially all Olympics-style music. Again, it's not bad, but some of it's definitely a bit...much. On my desktop at work I've got a playlist I put together for Eberron-inspirational music; it's got the Sharn soundtrack, Children of Dune, The Mummy, a few cuts from Pirates of the Caribbean, a few Halo tracks (main theme from Halo 1, Fall of Reach from Halo 2 and a few others I don't remember), a few Final Fantasy tracks (The Oath from FFIX). There's even one or two tracks from The Matrix (Teahouse from Reloaded; Tetsujin from Revolutions...I'm really wanting to use them as backgrounds for a Darguul honor duel/trial by combat, should it ever come up). There's a few neat pieces on the Alien Trilogy compilation soundtrack I found, though I don't remember which ones at the moment. I'm definitely a sucker for a good soundtrack though. I can't remember the last non-soundtrack CD I bought... |
| thedafan02-11-05, 01:30 AM | I would suggest most everything off the playlist of the internet radio station "In Dark Faith Eternal". It is a Live365.com station and plays a lot of Goth/Etheral/Darkwave. When I host a game at my house I play it in the background. I find it amazing how the pace of the game matches the music and the players don't even realize that they are doing it. |
| JohnSnow02-23-05, 08:59 PM | For the record, in my opinion, the Sharn soundtrack is absolutely awesome. I've played it just as music for people who were music fans (not gamers) and they loved it as music! So definitely better than I was expecting it to be. Kudos to Wizards for capturing that Indiana Jones/Mummy feel right off the bat with a new album. Color me impressed! |
| Vharuck02-23-05, 11:12 PM | Probably only available through E-Bay, maybe Amazon, and maybe Borders (since they order things special for free): the various Cowboy Bebop soundtracks. A nice myriad of music, ranging from slow bar-room jazz to fast-paced yet catchy old school metal. |
| Flame_Drake02-24-05, 01:44 AM | everyone should also list to the soundtrack to this (http://www.xbox.com/en-us/xboxtv/default.htm?t=3856&v=72007&bw=hi&level1=halo2gdp&level2=video&level3=halo2trailervtn). Not that most of us haven't seen it already :P A good example of high action and action points too. Edit: the soundtrack for Fable would also be a great fit with Eberron. Edit2: click on the first trailer, it doesn't work directly. Drake |
| depolarization02-24-05, 10:25 AM | Well...to descend into pretentious obscurity: There is an onslaught of underground pastiche music, reviving the sounds of medieval and rennaissance music. Some of my favorite tracks have been coming out of neo-folk and dark ambient acts from eastern europe that apply atmospheric noise. The ambient makes use of the crackles, pops and incidental screeches you hear when you watched a great action or horror film like Constatine, 13 Ghosts, or Ringu along with medieval instrument textures. The Neo-Folk is great for the lighter times and there are many instrumental tracks by acts like Rain, and Ataraxia appropriate for towns, taverns, or non-sinister overland crossing without distracting vocals or heavy reliance on stale celtic harmonics (though I eat that stuff up as well). http://www.neo-folk.it/home.htm http://www.beastofprey.glt.pl/ http://www.foreshadow.info/ ...yeah, though DnD came first in my life, I'm a bigger music GEEK! Alex |
| kisama02-24-05, 10:32 AM | Regarding mechwarrior 2. I still have the CD on a shelf. Did you have to use some special app to get at the music or was it just stored in a folder on the CD? |
| depolarization02-24-05, 10:39 AM | Wow...fast reply... I am familiar with this game and own a copy somehwere. The music on it is old-school redbook audio. You can pop it into a regular CD player and skip the first track (the data track) and listen to the low-sample-rate (smaller size) cd audio tracks afterwards without trouble. Other games did this as well with amazing soundtracks like Quake, Heretic 2 and The Wheel of Time (highly recommend all). Should you want to get fancy, you can even use an audio ripper to convert these to mp3 files. Later games, especially the fantastic Blackisle studio RPGs like Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment and Fallout imbedded their music and for that you would need a software ripper, or as one friend did it, a decompiler to parse the tracks out, or use a soundcard that can "record what you hear". However, many fans of the genres have conveniently ripped this music for us and a few searches should yield this treasure trove of sounds locked away in games. Alex |
| Lurkalot02-24-05, 05:15 PM | Amen to the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack - some of it is a little obviously future for Eberron, but other parts just couldn't be better. For classical music though... Shostakovich - typically good for in-between the action music. Sometimes you have to breathe. Prokofiev - 'Montagues and Capulets' from Romeo and Juliet.is the best ever build up to a gang fight. Get hold of it - trust me! Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique in particular. Listen to the fourth movement Dream of the Witches' Sabbath. Great for an eldritch showdown. Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue. I don't think anything better could be found for a decadent bar in Sharn, probably high in the Skyway. Less classical, but very much not modern - Hedningarna (http://www.cabal.se/silence/nyhedning/) is superb music for the wilder regions of Eberron. It helps if you don't speak Swedish or Norwegian but it's still very good even if you know what they're singing about.. Look for Porno Polka if you ever need a wild party with the Valenar. Also the Numa Numa Dance *Lurkalot ducks and runs* ;) |
| Lurkalot02-24-05, 05:17 PM | DOUBLE POST |
| Altaris02-24-05, 05:42 PM | You know, I agree with the Halo music. And I'm sure someone mentioned Brotherhood of the Wolf soundtrack. That is the staple of what I use in my Eberron campgain. I also use the soundtrack to the Last Samurai. That had a great feel for our treks into the Mournland. |
| Flame_Drake09-18-05, 03:14 PM | **Chants in a deep voice** **casts revive thread** One more set of sound tracks, ones that I argue is the most obvious. The Lord of the Rings all of them "But htats not pulp or noir and its what we left behind with the old settings" One premptive thought on the above. Just one for now. Throughout the LotR, Aragorn keeps finding the ruins that were built by his ancestors and some of the Music reflets this. This fits perfectly with Ebberon if you say, a Dhakaani in your party. The soundtrack to The Mask of Zorro also works well. Drake |
| Amaril09-19-05, 07:55 AM | The soundtracks to Sin City and The Crow (score) are amazing for gaming in Sharn. The Mummy and the Mummy Returns are excellent for high-action adventuring. |
| Thwyvylyn09-19-05, 10:23 AM | I find the "Lunatic Pandora" music from Final Fantasy 8 works well for the Inspired. |
| Thrasher09-19-05, 10:26 AM | Is the CD from sharn any good? |
| Amaril09-19-05, 10:36 AM | Is the CD from sharn any good? It has great audio imagery and really pulls you into the setting. I listen to it all the time. :) I also ripped it to my hard drive and dropped the tracks into my gaming playlists. |
| REN09-19-05, 01:22 PM | A couple of other movie soundtracks that lend well to D&D gaming, and that I've used in Eberron, are... - The Last Samurai - Kingdom of Heaven - King Arthur (the recent 2004/5 version) Now I have to get the Sin City and The Crowe (didn't think of those) I have a bunch of soundtracks. I'll look it over tonight and list any others that may work well. It's amazing how playing a particular track at a pre-determined encounter, will heighten the anxiety level of the player(s). Just the other day, I played one of the Midnight Syndicate tracks (don't remember the name/#) just as the character was attacked by SURPRISE - SURPRISE - his recently met girlfreind, who happened to be a changleing in disguise. The sound and the description I gave, practically turned my poor player pale white! hehe! :D |
| Brastan09-19-05, 01:56 PM | It's amazing how playing a particular track at a pre-determined encounter, will heighten the anxiety level of the player(s). Not to shocking actually, I got the same effect when I dropped One-Winged Angel (the FF7 Safer Sephiroth theme music) as the intro and fight music for a BBEG I used a few years back. Oh the panic was glorious :evillaugh . A good sound track can boost a villain or organization, were would Team Rocket be without their rhyme? Certainly they wouldn't be nearly as irritating or memorable. When you can cue a particular track and have the players grown because they know stupid repeat villain #39 is about to make his entrance, again, is just to precious. Anyone trying to develop their own Eberron score? I'm no musician but I have been dabbling with Soundtrack(Apple's music loops program). So far I haven't hit anything that sounds right. |
| CTHUHLU_THE_GROOVY09-19-05, 08:51 PM | Dresden dolls in ebberron? I find that their music has too many lyrics to be good game music. I think the music in final fantasy 10 fits really well. |
| Kennian09-20-05, 05:35 AM | My...my...my... the clasic D&D music <any situation realy...sept maybe Sharn> Conan The Barbarian.. nice thick 2 cd soundtrack from the movie will rock your game... if you rummage around you're old issues of Dragon they have a rather large list of songs and CD's that make great D&D music and i found most of it fitting, includeing good city themes...considering some were ment for places like Sigil and Waterdeep.. |
| yrogerg09-26-05, 05:46 PM | Not to shocking actually, I got the same effect when I dropped One-Winged Angel (the FF7 Safer Sephiroth theme music) as the intro and fight music for a BBEG I used a few years back. Oh the panic was glorious :evillaugh . A good sound track can boost a villain or organization, were would Team Rocket be without their rhyme? Certainly they wouldn't be nearly as irritating or memorable. When you can cue a particular track and have the players grown because they know stupid repeat villain #39 is about to make his entrance, again, is just to precious. Anyone trying to develop their own Eberron score? I'm no musician but I have been dabbling with Soundtrack(Apple's music loops program). So far I haven't hit anything that sounds right. :ayyyy!: I was wondering when someone was going to mention the FF7 soundtrack. I definitely think One Winged Angel's great for a high-CR or BBEG encounter. I'd also definitely use Fighting for a smallish duel, and the Black Mages version of Those Who Fight Further for a more pitched battle. Also, Bebop's just a great soundtrack overall. I'd actually like to add one, too: The anime series Last Exile has some great stuff ranging from folksy pastoral stuff to heavily martial tunes, including at least one great tune for skirmishes. ... Also, :bump: |
| Lup1n309-26-05, 06:00 PM | For me and my group(s), we tend to choose our music based on location primarily. Example: The middle levels of Sharn all get Jazz and Blues. Blues in lower middle, jazz in middle middle, smooth jazz upper middle. The lower levels get more ambient instrumentals, and the upper levels get light classical. There are exceptions of course. For places like the shadow marshes we tend to use a bit more folk music. Flamekeep tends to get Chorales, Xen'drik gets quite a wide range in and of itself. We do try to steer away from things with vocals, death metal groups, rap, country and the like. |
| LugWrench09-26-05, 07:32 PM | A while back I was running my poor sucke....err...group through Shadows of the Last War. I had read through the module, and had a good grasp of what was going on and when. When I got to the Whitehearth facility, I was sized by (Divine....Infernal....depends on which players you ask) inspiration. A group going into a weapons-research facilty after a major accident... No knowledge of whats inside (other than Weapons Research) and whats still around......... i had the perfect tune. When the group entered the complex proper, I reached over and clicked the mouse button. From my computer came the intro music to the movie "Resident Evil". It took a few seconds for people to realize what they were hearing, then the looks of sheer panic started. :evillaugh |
| Eronthar09-29-05, 07:25 AM | My detective based campaign reaching to its end. And i like to give a sample for musical background. Like every good detective movie, all of the games begin in the office of our MI Beth d'Medani. Office Music: Murder he says from Tori Amos Lucky Glover, our most visited club. Which included beautifull belles Blue Orchid and Mimi. When Blue Orchid on the stage song stays the same; Lady Marmalade. If one of the other girls leading any music from Chicago, mainly All that Jazz. And other parts are get their share from many musical records. From Phanthom of the Opera to Bjorn Layne. |
| AvonRekaes09-29-05, 08:18 AM | When I'm doing a good old-fashioned dungeon crawl (You know, in an actual dungeon, not a jungle or battlefield), i play the Diablo 2 soundtrack. Very moody and creepy music. |
| Eksem10-02-05, 07:35 AM | For Sharn, I enjoyed playing some of the music from Blade Runner. It feels quite metropolitan and the love theme has a sensitive mood to it, plus a great cheesy sax wich fits in perfectly. I also had some sounds of nature-thing mixed in there, but it totally made my players sleepy rather than edgy, so I probably won't use that again. The music from the Metropolis anime should be good also, if I could find it. |
| Deflare10-02-05, 08:50 PM | The Phantom of the Opera: A dark-ish, moody sountrack that plunges deep within the human psyche. This can work well in an Eberron campaign, especially one that focuses of acceptance of the Shifters and Warforged. Star Wars prequels: Play some of the songs from the lightsaber fights during combat- the voice choruses would greatly add to the mood, I think. The Legend of Zelda: I'm hard pressed to think of a situation where something from the Ocarina of Time soundtrack wouldn't be appropriate. |
| Flame_Drake12-03-05, 12:42 AM | Random Guess but Pirates of Caribbian: Dead Man's chest soundtrack? ;) I actually think that a lot of K-os' work fits into Eberron for some reason, must be the orcistras that he uses. Now for a question. I've been trying to fit modern genres into various corners of Eberron. Does anyone have nay insight to where R&B in the original sense of the genre would fit? As far as I can tell, its the most influencal in the development of modern music. Drake psss... everyone search the trailer on google, its finally been released |
| Lurkalot12-03-05, 04:37 AM | For bluesey-jazzy bars in Sharn, there are a couple from the Dark City soundtrack, I'm thinking of Sway by Anita Kelsey - very sexy, very smokey, no obvious modern lyrics that I can recall. For goblin bars, you can always look out for old-Irish jig music. My racial associations seem to go: Goblin - Irish / Celtic (wild and fun) Dwarfs - Wagner, Berlioz, Mussorsky Valenar - Romanian Gypsy / Eastern European Folk / Scandinavian (look for Porno Polka by Hedningarna for the perfect perfect perfect Valenar dance) Human - Smokey Jazz and Blues Halfling - Tribal thumping (Try the Kodo drummers of Japan) Orcs - Anything with lots of horn calls or battle sounds. Gnomes - Mmm Bop by Hansen. I don't know why. |
| Splendide12-03-05, 07:51 AM | For some reason I picture the gnomes being all about string instruments...extremely complex and epic guitar and harpsichord instrumentals, with maybe a bit of token singing for backing. |
| leopardmessiah12-03-05, 04:48 PM | Awesome film soundtrack's aside, I definately agree with the use of Jazz and Blues for urban locales, and wonder if it might be worth making it a feature of the setting. What I mean is, almost solely using Jazz-related music when playing Eberron, to build up some musical continuity to your games. Obvious exceptions for scenes with in-game music, and possibly it should be restricted to civilised areas (cannot think of anything suited to most dungeon crawls, though I'm not that knowledgeable on Jazz) but I think it could work. At the very least, one could concentrate on Jazz wherever possible. I'm thinking Spacy Fusion and Prog stuff for Sarlona, really out there Noise/free jazz for Xendrik/Khyber related places, World-fusion stuff for Xendrik and European-folk influenced stuff for the countryside, that sort of thing. |
| Aneul12-03-05, 04:50 PM | For the gnomes, the Brandenburg Concertos by Bach. I actualy used them in my campagin- had them composed by the bard Kesseler (from S:CoT) and called them the Korrandurg Concertoes. I especialy thing the first concerto, 3d movement works really well to portray the friendly fasade which masks the darker nature of Korrandburg and the Zil Gnomes. Mendelsson's Scotish Symphony (3d) also fits the bill- I imagine it as the sort of thing you might here a royal orchestra in one of the Five Nations performing. |
| Flame_Drake05-11-06, 07:00 PM | >Link< (http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/3/5b3d8532-65bc-4bf6-b5ea-6ba0f2084d74/h3_E32006_announce_large_uncropped.wmv) (note, opens directly to WMP, 98MB) No big surprises here, but I can easily see this being the track for a scene where the characters walk slowly across the Demon Wastes for the final showdown against a cult as they summon their Rajah lord from the depths of Khyber. Again with another random though, but the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s new CD, Stadium Arcadium released on Tuesday. While the CD itself isn’t exactly appropriate for Eberron, I found that the music (and not lyrics) of several songs, most notably Dani California and Snow, inspired characters that could exist as PCs within Eberron (for example a Cyran bard who has dedicated his life to rousing his people mourning so that they can continue to live their lives as before). While I have no doubt that music can do this for people, it was a little bizarre. Thoughts? Drake |
| Joni-san05-13-06, 07:55 PM | I've listened to the Secret of Mana OST recently and found that a few tunes aren't half bad for Eberron use. The music in Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magic Obscura also fits Eberron. Fallout has perfect moodsetting music. |
| RedUncle06-14-06, 06:25 PM | I'm a BIG fan of the Mechwarrior 2 music. YES!! you rule!! I adore the Mechwarrior 2 music! I listen to it constantly... track two blows my mind every time... excellent |