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Post by janewalksfar on Feb 8, 2016 21:51:16 GMT
I was listening to some tunes the other night and it struck me that the EP I was listening to was thematically and tonally perfect for my campaign. Listening through again, I concluded "The Well" would be the opening credits song if my campaign were a television show. My secret plan is now to convince my husband to loop the instrumentals from the second track so I can use it for combat.
Do any of your campaigns have official (or unofficial) theme songs? If not, what would be the perfect track that captures the mood or themes of your campaign(s)? Alternatively, do you associate any songs with a particular character or NPC?
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Post by DM Kiado on Feb 8, 2016 22:30:16 GMT
I have my own in my head for each one I have to say. My next adventure in a campaign I am running is called Born in Winter (King of Fall is the current campaign adventure) and this is the song I consider it's theme.  youtu.be/suG-c_i2fBQ |
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Post by lasersniper on Feb 8, 2016 23:40:22 GMT
Really haven't considered it, hmmmmm. WAIT I have the perfect song that describes my current campaign! youtu.be/MK6TXMsvgQg |
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Post by friartook on Feb 9, 2016 2:23:23 GMT
I think Yakety Sacks or Baby Elephant Walk would be appropriate for my table...
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Post by Samuel Wise on Feb 9, 2016 4:59:55 GMT
Love it! There always seems to be that one song that seems to fit well with a oneshot/campaign. I don't know what my players would say... maybe T.N.T. by AC/DC? That or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
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Post by joatmoniac on Feb 9, 2016 7:00:58 GMT
I can't find the song that I was using when my group got together. It was an older song talking about going to the zoo because all of my players picked crazy animal-centric races. Now the hunt begins to find it once again!
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Post by goblingravy on Feb 9, 2016 16:19:26 GMT
I'm ashamed to say it, but... Smash Mouth's "All Star"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2016 20:41:58 GMT
I've never personally used a theme song or the like, but I'm reminded of a recent campaign run by another DM in my group, which rotates DMs every few months. The DM was secretly building a plot based on "The Grand Pecking Order" from Oysterhead. We only got a few chapters (tracks) into the campaign before he decided he wanted to run Shadowrun 5e instead, but it was a cool surprise when he revealed what he was doing.
The campaign began with a mystery involving some sort of magical curse/disease that caused madness in its victims. Our goal was to identify the source of the curse, and if possible, end it. Victims would scream and rave about "little faces" everywhere, and many of their ravings were lifted directly from the lyrics to the song, "Little Faces." When the disease finally killed them, the body would transform into thousands of tiny disembodied faces (swarm type creatures) that would attack people.
The second chapter led us to the source of the disease, a vengeful captain of a road guard militia named Auz, who was using the disease to extract revenge on the gnomish trading company responsible for the death of his beloved "Lilly." The lyrics to the second track, "Oz Is Ever Floating" are about a man named Oz obsessed with Dr. John C. Lilly.
The campaign came to a premature end after we defeated Auz. By this time the DM had decided he preferred running Shadowrun. Anyway, at the conclusion of the aquatic fight (hinted at by the lyrics in track 2), our group was at risk of drowning until a man with a giant oyster for a hat burst onto the scene through a magic portal and rescued us. The third track, of course, is titled "Mr. Oysterhead" and features the chorus, "When all else has been done and said, along comes Mr. Oysterhead!"
It was a novel idea, and something I might use in the future - choose an album, and build an entire adventure based on the track titles and lyrics.
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Post by cptpipebeard on Feb 9, 2016 23:31:11 GMT
I would have to say it would be something like this for the Shadowrun campaign I am in www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDo1617aXX4It has to do with the fact that we are more often finding ourselves hanging around this one street sipping coffee we get from a local black marketeer at all hours of the night and eggs and sausage is a regular thing we seem to eat, only the eggs are powdered and the sausage is shark meat, a detail that my characters roommate does not know and he also believes that sharks are extinct. |
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Post by janewalksfar on Feb 10, 2016 1:24:10 GMT
I've never personally used a theme song or the like, but I'm reminded of a recent campaign run by another DM in my group, which rotates DMs every few months. The DM was secretly building a plot based on "The Grand Pecking Order" from Oysterhead. We only got a few chapters (tracks) into the campaign before he decided he wanted to run Shadowrun 5e instead, but it was a cool surprise when he revealed what he was doing. This is flippin' brilliant. Oysterhead is great. Everything Les Claypool touches is made of magic imho. But a brilliant choice of music aside, the idea of building a campaign around a song or album is mad-clever. Did you all figure it out as the chapters unfolded or did the DM reveal his clever plan? |
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Post by corpus on Apr 26, 2016 6:42:59 GMT
My setting roughly approximates Ancient Greece (with some Lovecraftian elements that are popping in as the main source of tension and overall plot of the campaign). I definitely have a theme song that I used as part of a "trailer" I made for my campaign as part of inviting people to participate, and it keeps popping up at important moments in the campaign (signifying to the players that this is an important moment). I find that almost all of the Faun songs work really well (go figure!), but my campaign theme song is Lupercalia: youtu.be/OKXLg40eb4s?list=PLQsgs-W8YMJAjCDfhN1pXRxpu8Lanco13 |
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Post by janewalksfar on May 1, 2016 16:23:32 GMT
My setting roughly approximates Ancient Greece (with some Lovecraftian elements that are popping in as the main source of tension and overall plot of the campaign). I definitely have a theme song that I used as part of a "trailer" I made for my campaign as part of inviting people to participate, and it keeps popping up at important moments in the campaign (signifying to the players that this is an important moment). I find that almost all of the Faun songs work really well (go figure!), but my campaign theme song is Lupercalia: youtu.be/OKXLg40eb4s?list=PLQsgs-W8YMJAjCDfhN1pXRxpu8Lanco13I love the idea of making a "trailer" for a campaign! I'm totally using this idea when I launch my next campaign. I'm big on aesthetic and tone in my worlds, so this would be a perfect way to easily introduce players to those ideas before character creation and the first session. |
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