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Using a 'title' song in rpg sessions

Started by Moracai, August 26, 2015, 07:44:21 AM

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Bren

#30
August 02, 2017, 12:59:19 AM
Not sure about the music. A couple of quick YouTube listens sounds far too modern to my ear for anything before the Jazz Age, but Django Reinhardt would be a pretty cool name for a Flashing Blades rogue character.
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Omega

#31
August 02, 2017, 03:53:30 AM
I have though used music to get across a tavern or more nightclub's style.

S'mon

#32
August 02, 2017, 08:48:00 AM
For text chat and Play By Post games the GM (usually me) and players will often provide links to suitable music. They key thing here is it's optional - you're not being forced to listen. Eg in my White Star game a couple days ago the PCs were having the crap kicked out of them by the Assimilants (Borg expy), so with the Assimilants about to board their crippled ship, and the heroes getting ready to go down fighting, I gave them:

 [video=youtube;KIsv1YOFNys]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIsv1YOFNys[/youtube] :D

For tabletop games, I have players who like to play stuff, but personally I tend to find it distracting and am not generally a fan. A 5 minute track is ok, but as GM I've had to ask people to turn off endless music and as player I tend to suffer in silence.

nightlamp

#33
August 02, 2017, 03:14:57 PM
My Classic Traveller game has a title song ("Galactic Nomad" by Slough Feg), but the players only heard it as part of the pitch -- it doesn't get played during sessions.  For years I liked running games with low-volume dark ambient music (Lustmord, Robert Rich, Voice of Eye, et al) running continuously, but it's not really convenient to do that at the places I play these days.

Bren

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August 02, 2017, 05:16:57 PM
Quote from: S'mon;980056[video=youtube;KIsv1YOFNys]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIsv1YOFNys[/youtube] :D
That cracked me up. Thanks!
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Dumarest

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August 03, 2017, 03:06:34 PM
Quote from: Voros;979997To me the music that best captures the spirit of Flashing Blades would be the gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt.

I have a lot of his recordings but can't see why you would connect the two. I don't hear it at all.

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darthfozzywig

#37
August 04, 2017, 02:34:17 PM
Quote from: Warthur;851235Not tried it yet, but when I get around to running The One Ring I'm tempted to use the intro and outro music and narration from the 1977 BBC radio adaptation to put people in the mood.

Funny - I used that intro music when I ran my TOR campaign. :)
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Krimson

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August 04, 2017, 07:34:06 PM
The closest I came was writing a song for a character. The game fizzled but I still have the song.
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Voros

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August 04, 2017, 09:47:12 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;980314I have a lot of his recordings but can't see why you would connect the two. I don't hear it at all.

I think it captures the spirit of the genre, not the era. It is light and fleet, with an underlying romantic melancholy that fits the tone and feel of the genre to me. I understand the time era throwing one off but sometimes it is a bit arbitrary, we watch period films with orchestration that in no way match the era all the time. I find Sophia Coppola's use of 80s music in Marie Antoinnette unbearable but love the use of psychedelic metal in Valhalla Rising or Popol Vuh's music for Aguirre: Wrath of God.
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