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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2012 16:26:01 GMT -8
When I used to play Deadlands, we found the soundtrack to "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" to have the right balance of western and horror to it.
Tappy, if you want a bizarre music choice, I have one.
Consider playing a game about a group of young vampire girls taking over a small town. The soundtrack is made up enitirely of GoGo songs.
"We got the beat", "This town", "Tonite", "Lust to Love" and others could make a twisted musical about vampire love, rebellion, and redemption...don't you think?
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Post by azuretalon on Apr 2, 2012 16:27:21 GMT -8
forresst -I love the idea of world building based on random songs, just have to make sure YouTube is available for more obscure stuff. I have done something similar by mixing Eyes of Eden "Winter Night", Cruxshadows "Winterborn", and Within Temptations "Ice Queen" to create what I thought was a rather cool (pun intended) setting about a fantasy world after an ice apocalypse. Then I learned Hellfrost was a thing.
Another idea that I have done is building a character off of a song. Hulk Hogan's theme, "Real American" inspired my Captain America clone, Mike Country. Cruxshadows "Bleed Again" Inspired an Exalted nightcaste. Stuff like that. I usually include a theme song too a character if they didn't start as a song, just to round out the personality like Ben Moody's "The End has Come" attached to my Grim Reaper themed Paladin. Really most of The Punisher's Soundtrack worked since he was kind of a fantasy Punisher.
Cradle of Filth is a bit too harsh and screamy for me. I generally dig Melodic vocals; stuff like Symphonic, Power and Speed Metal. A dash of thrash metal for nostalgia sake. And yeah, I wasn't lumping you guys in the with "Gother than me" crowd, just saying I'm more of a metal head with goth tendencies. Veremond's the really goth guy I know and why I'm aware of most goth bands.
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Post by Forresst on Apr 2, 2012 20:31:56 GMT -8
Ok! Let's have a little game then!
Hmm, I like the characters idea too. How about, people get a song, and they can make a world OR a character for the song? And to give the song, you have to provide the youtube! That way there's no way to give a song that isn't somewhere on youtube. That would be the easiest way to make sure.
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Post by azuretalon on Apr 3, 2012 3:56:46 GMT -8
Sounds fun, I got what I think will be a good one to start. Since this WAS a character theme for me, Veremond can't play. youtu.be/7Hd1QSARzSc
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Post by jazzisblues on Apr 3, 2012 6:29:49 GMT -8
I tend to listen to music that fits the mood or character of the game I'm trying to run. Right now doing a pulp (1930's) game in Savage Worlds so lots of jazz and such but I listen to that anyway. Maybe one feeds the other, I don't know.
Cheers,
JiB
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Post by clockworkmonk on Apr 3, 2012 6:52:08 GMT -8
I tend to listen to music that fits the mood or character of the game I'm trying to run. Right now doing a pulp (1930's) game in Savage Worlds so lots of jazz and such but I listen to that anyway. Maybe one feeds the other, I don't know. Cheers, JiB As a dancer, can I interest you in videos of vintage tap and Lindy hop routines from the 30s and 40s?
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Post by jazzisblues on Apr 3, 2012 10:04:26 GMT -8
I tend to listen to music that fits the mood or character of the game I'm trying to run. Right now doing a pulp (1930's) game in Savage Worlds so lots of jazz and such but I listen to that anyway. Maybe one feeds the other, I don't know. Cheers, JiB As a dancer, can I interest you in videos of vintage tap and Lindy hop routines from the 30s and 40s? Actually I might find uses for those at some point. I, however, cannot dance. Part of the reason I always enjoyed playing with the band, I got to watch the pretty girls dance. JiB
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Post by tappy on Apr 5, 2012 13:59:14 GMT -8
Azuretalon - fuck anyone who tries to define "Goth" as a select style of music or group of bands. Goth refers to the themes of gothic horror, which have been around for over 300 years.
Forresst -- Aw yeah, Lets do this thing!
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Post by Forresst on Apr 5, 2012 15:23:15 GMT -8
Oh boy it's time for game time! I'm taking Imperative reaction from you, you should take azuretalon's song, this one:
And azuretalon, I give you this:
Come back with writeups! Do you think we should make a different thread with the game? So people can join in too?
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Post by tappy on Apr 5, 2012 15:47:34 GMT -8
I never got too much into the more straight up metal, I like the industrial rhythms more I find. Except Rammstein, although I'm sure people would tell me I'm an idiot for liking Rammstein. I saw Combichrist and Rammstein play together at the Forum last year. It was amazing epic on FUCKING FIRE! If you like Rammstein, then I must give you this...
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Post by tappy on Apr 5, 2012 15:49:12 GMT -8
Oh boy it's time for game time! I'm taking Imperative reaction from you, you should take azuretalon's song, this one: And azuretalon, I give you this: Come back with writeups! Do you think we should make a different thread with the game? So people can join in too? we should make a separate thread for the game... I think its too good to now make a thing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2012 8:12:08 GMT -8
i'd like to get in on this game action....if you don't mind i have a submission for a song
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2012 8:23:45 GMT -8
as for the actual subject matter, i tend to first figure out what the game/character is then find appropriate music. when i ran a short lived exalted campaign set in nexus, i found i was turning to bands like epica and within temptation. if i wanted a darker toned game i would dig up my darker music, stuff like deathstars, a little cradle of filth, or children of bodom.
a gothier character i found i was going through bella morte, maybe some carfax abbey and birthday massacre to name a few. and the same would go for a darker world of darkness game, i'd look at similar bands
in a different my current character in teenagers from outerspace finds me using a lot of power metal like masterplan, avantasia, edguy,
for me my in the end inspirational music comes when i figure out the tone of the game i want to run, and also what kind of character i want to play as well, and the music runs the gambit from goth, to symphonic power metal, and some blues as well, and anything in between
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Post by HyveMynd on Apr 15, 2012 2:07:27 GMT -8
Except Rammstein, although I'm sure people would tell me I'm an idiot for liking Rammstein. What? What!? Who told you that? If someone said that to me I'd reply with a "So... you don't like Rammstein? Sounds to me like you're the idiot then." Do you like Cradle of Filth? When I don't wanna dance I just wanna yell along with the stereo, that's who I put on. Yeah, same here. Rammstein makes me want to dance (which is fricking dangerous because I suck at it; even the "stand against the wall and shuffle" gives me trouble). But when I just want to listen to someone scream I put on Cradle of Filth or Arch Enemy. Hey, if you like Orgy at all, I got this one song on my ipod by a band called Blue Stahli and I kinda like it! I just have no clue where it came from or how it got there. How did that get on your iPod? Well, however it got there it's God damn a-MAYH-zing! I'll have to add them to my music library as well. Finntroll for the win! Finntroll - Solsagan I'll always associate this video with raise dead spells from now on. Finntroll - Under Bergots Rot Too bad my Changeling: the Lost game died before I saw this video. Otherwise I would have ripped it off for my game. And is it just me, or are those octopus-chicks kinda like, hot? Speaking of which, who doesn't like angry metal chicks? My Ruin - Miss Ann Thrope Jack Off Jill - When I Am Queen ... and my players wonder why no matter what system I run, my games are always so fucking dark and depressing.
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Post by HyveMynd on Apr 15, 2012 2:24:31 GMT -8
I saw Combichrist and Rammstein play together at the Forum last year. It was amazing epic on FUCKING FIRE! I remember walking down the street back in Philadelphia while I was in university and having a newspaper sheet get stuck on my foot thanks to the wind. I looked down, saw what it was, and said "Holy Christ! Rammstein is playing in Philly! Yes!" I thought it was fate. But fate is cruel. I snatched it up only to find that the concert had just happened the night before. I had missed it. If my live had been a TV show it would have done one of those pan out with the camera so that you could hear my scream of "NOOOO!" all the way out into space.
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