Hello fellow D&D players, i hope you can give me some help with ambience!
I'm looking for some really nice boss battle music! Can you guys give me some help? :)
I've already heard every 2 steps from hell album, Audiomachine, Elder Scrolls, The Witcher, Pillars of Eternity and so on,, so if you guys have some nice music other than that it would be great!! :-D
Video game soundtracks are always a great source of epic orchestral music that is also written to be "background" music. Check out God of War (the most recent one), Chrono Trigger, Halo, Ori and the Blind Forest, and Bastion for some of my favorites!
As for pure classical music look towards the final movements of symphonies (as they tend to be bombastic and fast) by Wagner, Mahler, Berlioz, and Tchaikowsky and branch out from there.
I don't know if you have a subscription to Spotify, but it is full of D&D playlists that other people have curated. Last week I was running an adventure in the Underdark and just doing a playlist search for Underdark brought me several results and I was good to go.
I did a quick playlist search for "Boss Battle"
EDIT: And it you're looking for specific suggestions, it's hard to go wrong with Basil Poledouris' Conan music.
My tastes for music tend to the weird. You'll find me mass murdering in GTA to the Brecker Brother's Wakaria.
I'm guessing that Rimsky-Korsakov's Interlude in Act III of the opera, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, is right out, but that's something I've played in the background while watching Heroes of the Vale in battles.
The common name is The Flight of the Bumblebee and is part of a larger work and has singing that's usually omitted for some reason (like Die Walküre or "Flight of the Valkyrie" from Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is also most often missing the singing).
Trivia: Gvidion, wanting to return home but literally missed the boat, is turned into a bumblebee to stow away on the Tsar's ship, and he causes such a fuss (including blinding one person by stinging her in the eye when she and some others suggested that the Tsar shouldn't go to Gvidion's island) that the Tsar declares bumblebees to be banned. ...but hey, it was worth the banning of beneficial and harmless insects just to get home. Right?
"You can do anything in Opera as long as you sing it." -Anna Russel
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Hello fellow D&D players, i hope you can give me some help with ambience!
I'm looking for some really nice boss battle music! Can you guys give me some help? :)
I've already heard every 2 steps from hell album, Audiomachine, Elder Scrolls, The Witcher, Pillars of Eternity and so on,, so if you guys have some nice music other than that it would be great!! :-D
Video game soundtracks are always a great source of epic orchestral music that is also written to be "background" music. Check out God of War (the most recent one), Chrono Trigger, Halo, Ori and the Blind Forest, and Bastion for some of my favorites!
As for pure classical music look towards the final movements of symphonies (as they tend to be bombastic and fast) by Wagner, Mahler, Berlioz, and Tchaikowsky and branch out from there.
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Wagner … Ride of the Valkeries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73Z6291Pt8
'nuff said!
I don't know if you have a subscription to Spotify, but it is full of D&D playlists that other people have curated. Last week I was running an adventure in the Underdark and just doing a playlist search for Underdark brought me several results and I was good to go.
I did a quick playlist search for "Boss Battle"
EDIT: And it you're looking for specific suggestions, it's hard to go wrong with Basil Poledouris' Conan music.
"Not all those who wander are lost"
My tastes for music tend to the weird. You'll find me mass murdering in GTA to the Brecker Brother's Wakaria.
I'm guessing that Rimsky-Korsakov's Interlude in Act III of the opera, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, is right out, but that's something I've played in the background while watching Heroes of the Vale in battles.
The common name is The Flight of the Bumblebee and is part of a larger work and has singing that's usually omitted for some reason (like Die Walküre or "Flight of the Valkyrie" from Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is also most often missing the singing).
Trivia: Gvidion, wanting to return home but literally missed the boat, is turned into a bumblebee to stow away on the Tsar's ship, and he causes such a fuss (including blinding one person by stinging her in the eye when she and some others suggested that the Tsar shouldn't go to Gvidion's island) that the Tsar declares bumblebees to be banned. ...but hey, it was worth the banning of beneficial and harmless insects just to get home. Right?
"You can do anything in Opera as long as you sing it." -Anna Russel
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.