I know a lot of folks use music as inspiration and ambience in their gaming life.
I thought this topic could be a good place to gather our rpg-related musical sources.
Post playlists or songs, and a little bit about how you use it in your rpg play/design/prep/etc and/or what kinds of settings, genres, or themes you associate with your selections.
I’ll kick it off with a playlist I initially made for a Ryuutama game, which now serves as my go to playlist for anything dreamy and cozy. These days, I cue it up for my Wanderhome solosessions.
Mostly ambient tracks from Japan with a smattering of other favorites. Meant to be played on shuffle.
(Apologies to non-Spotify users. Maybe I’ll try to dupe it on youtube one day and update this post.)
I think that my favorite example of this is the Ultraviolet Grasslands Spotify playlist:
It’s a must if you are interested in the setting, but I don’t know if it’s necessarily a good thing to play during the sessions. It’s more of a way to connect with the vibe of the world.
I made this playlist to establish a tone for the Hard Sci-Fi/Fantasy campaign that I ran using Stars Without Number.
Some good stuff in the Heimat Der Katastrophe catalog (enough that I’ve developed something of a cassette tape problem in recent years). Two of my favorites are Dungeon Myths by KORMORG and the eponymous Dunjon Majik.
Great lists! I do the same, playlists to listen to while I write the game or prep it, less so to listen too while playing because my players aren’t into music during the game.
Here is the most recent one I actually commissioned to get made to see what she could find and she did not disappoint, bunch of new material I was not aware of before. Meant to be similar to a movie soundtrack with an implied progression.
For most occasions Fantasy or Cyberpunk or Cthulhu, I just use something from this persons playlists. They are great! Lots of them, very thematic and varied. Chris M on Spotify
