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Music you use during your games?

PapaPetro

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I like to get anachronistic while playing:


I imagine a plane shifting bard playing the best cover jams of the multiverse.

I kept telling you guys, Bards are OP.
Look at David Lee Roth ffs!
 
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Bruuce

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The hardest part for me is making a proper playlist for the feel I want it to evoke while being tone retarded. Usually I find a lot of songs that sort of fit then meander forever until I give up and stick with the kinda meh one I have already.
I'm also not running fantasy so I can't google "Swampy Cave near Sneedhaved from S-69 OST" and get a dozen playlists already.

However there's some good examples of non-fantasy/different type of fantasy lists like https://www.youtube.com/@Musicof40K/ which I use since the setting is fairly close to 40k already.
 
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For V:TM, I prefer either the "Music from the Succubus Club" CD, which you can find in the high seas (there's no fucking way I'm paying 400 euros for a second hand CD):


Or some Sisters of Mercy, they even look the part on their videos:
 

luj1

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Lately I am listening to this terrific album while playing through Hearkenwold,





Perfect for DnD adventures in low to mid magic setting.
 
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It depends on the game. With Victoria 2, I basically used whatever classical music I felt like listening.

I've been playing Morrowind recently and I prefer to remove the music altogether, with the exception of taverns where I listen to the tunes of the AURA mod.

Carmageddon had a soundtrack composed of a few instrumental Fear Factory songs, which I actually prefer to the standard versions. Later I found
out that they released a bunch more instrumentals, including the entire Demanufacture album, although I only found them on Youtube. While I'm not a huge FF fan, the instrumentals are great background material for a certain kind of game:



This got me thinking about using other metal instrumentals in the same vein. Unfortunately, most instrumentals are very proggy,
which was not what I was looking for. Here are some that go more or less well together (I can't post the links because of the limit):

Dark Angel - Cauterization
Master - Terrorizer
Gorguts - Waste of Mortality
Destruction - Upcoming Devastation, Thrash Attack
Rigor Mortis - Welcome to Your Funeral

The most obvious choice, otherwise, is ambient stuff, which I don't listen to a lot, except Brian Eno and Aphex Twin(not much anymore). Eno's Ambient 4 is my favorite and I've listened to it a million times while playing games and modding.
 

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