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Your RPG soundtrack

Captain Zoom

13:25 / 01.05.02

When you're playing your favourite role-playing game, and I'm talking about the ones where you have to interact with actual people in the same room as you, not a video game, what's your preferred soundtrack? Or do you have one?

For me, when I'm playing Call of Cthulhu, it's always strange ambient stuff or movie soundtracks. The soundtracks to Hellraiser and Hellbound are really good, and Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 2 is very effective. I've a friend who likes things like the Legend or Conan soundtracks for D&D, and for modern-based games, it's always whatever's in my CD player.

Any cool bits of music you've come across?

Zoom.

cusm

14:01 / 01.05.02

Future Sounds of London: ISDN. Great mood music for just about anything.

In my earlier days, we used to play the Legend soundtrack for fantasy stuff. It worked really well, but I've heard so much of it at this point I can't stand to hear it anymore.

Lately, with a wide assortment of ambient and electronic tracks of every flavor to choose from, we pick something appropriate to the mood and go. Muslim Gauze has some really cool stuff we've gotten milage out of.

Knight's Move

10:19 / 03.05.02

What is this sudden RPG kick? I like it, it's just mildly suprising. The last time I mentioned Kult on a Cthulhu post I was informed it was a can of worms by moriaty, now there's all these threads devoted to it...

Anyway back to the point, we tended for Vampire, Mage etc towards soundtracks like the Bram Stoker's Dracula (as long as you stopped before the Annie Lennox bit at the end) and wierd gangster rap like Gravediggaz specifically Niggermortis for Diary of a Madman.
For fantasy we went all classical, big fuck off operas and symphonys. Other than that we tried whatever came along, when we discovered Warp Records that helped though.

uncle retrospective

11:27 / 03.05.02

If your talking CoC then the Silence of the Lambs OST is fantastic, Very good for dealing with cultists/weirdos more than Mythos beasties.

Symphony of Sorrowful Songs Gorecki. Haunting and very bleak gives a great feeling of impending doom.

If your playing Kult you could try either Coil or Diamanda Galas But only if your trying to freak people out.

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