Music to create and play by...

Algolei · Post by **Algolei** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:16 pm

I normally hate music, but I'm pretty sure I could play with this in the background:

[Not Work Safe!] http://i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=24887 [/Not Work Safe!]

(It's a "phonetic translation of a Belgian kid show song. Warning: adult language.")

WSmith · Post by **WSmith** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:42 am

When I was doing all my creative work for C&C I only listened to "The Silk Road" which is a National Geographic music collection from various Middle Eastern and Asian countries. Come to think of it, that might explain a lot...

Seriously, it is a wacky an eclectic mix from the World music genre. I love it, but have to take it in small doses.

But otherwise, Conan the Barbarian, Fellowship of the Rings, and Gladiator are the top three.

Mordenkainen · Post by **Mordenkainen** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:37 pm

Cher, Celine Dion, Mandy Moore, Jojo....

GOTCHA!

Ah, ROTFLMAO!

I don't listen to metal like in the early days of my youth,

but I guess the guys that play the game are into metal.

The ST for Conan the Barbarian is the best, IMNSHO.

OT: I wonder if the guys of Metalocalypse (Dëthkløk) are ever seen playing RPGs...
(Maybe they wouldn't because it doesn't have enough 'metal-ness.')
I'd imagine that Nathan would play Conan.

jgbrowning · Post by **jgbrowning** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:04 pm

I listen to a band called Therion quite a bit when I write. Kinda Wagner metal...

joe b.

Gentlegamer · Post by **Gentlegamer** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:16 pm

I enjoy some nice cheesy heavy metal, such as Hammerfall, for playing and creating.

grodog · Post by **grodog** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:29 pm

I'll have to check that out, thanks Stuart. I had also picked up the FoTN offshoot, Rubicon, BITD too. What's the NFD sound like, in general?

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:40 pm

Glgnfz wrote:ah! that explains your latest adventure "dancing queen on the borderlands"...

Get it right: the proper title was "Dancing Queen of The Demonweb Waterloo."

It loses something in the translation.

I kidded with other members here once of creating a joke dungeon with ABBA as a theme, but that would take some serious longterm intoxication or sleep deprivation to accomplish that.

But I really do listen to ABBA when I'm writing; it helps.

jgbrowning · Post by **jgbrowning** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:10 am

SemajTheSilent wrote:But I really do listen to ABBA when I'm writing; it helps.

Suzi listens to ABBA as well so, by default, I listen to ABBA also.

joe b.

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:12 pm

jgbrowning wrote:
SemajTheSilent wrote:But I really do listen to ABBA when I'm writing; it helps.
Suzi listens to ABBA as well so, by default, I listen to ABBA also.

joe b.

Suzi obviously has excellent taste in music.

Flight Commander Solitude · Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:08 pm

Fields of the Nephilim ... YES!!!

Abacus Ape · Post by **Abacus Ape** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:25 pm

I've been playing the crap out of the new Electric Wizard, and so have been thinking a lot about sticking some Witchcults into the ol' campaign. The witch npc is in the first Best of Dragon, right?

xyanthon · Post by **xyanthon** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:25 am

Hm, interesting one. I haven't listened to much music while creating because I usually do so after the kids are in bed and I don't want to wake them up. However, I do sometimes and it is usually an eclectic mix of things like Emilou Harris, Neko Case, the Who, the Jam, Madness, fiREHOSE, the Descendants, Greg Brown, Fleetwood Mac, Carbon Leaf, Minutemen, JFA, the Clash, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, They Might Be Giants, Black Flag, the Ramones, and a large assortment of other punk, folk, ska, grunge, blue grass, old country, reggae, power pop, mod, oi, 80's, etc. Just depends on the mood at the time I suppose.

geneweigel · Post by **geneweigel** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:27 am

I have a mix of sci-fi, fantasy and adventure movies on one big disc when i play.

Otherwise, when I write/create/sculpt/illustrate/etc. I have absolute silence.

T. Foster · Post by **T. Foster** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:07 am

I don't do enough creating to have any sort of traditions associated with it

. A couple weeks ago I was roughing out a dungeon level, and I'm pretty sure I did it while sitting in front of the tv -- Hell's Kitchen probably, followed most likely by the KTLA 10 o'clock news.

Driver · Post by **Driver** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:51 pm

Nostalgia is a big component* of my enjoyment of old-school games, so I usually listen to the same stuff I used to listen to when I was a teenager, which is old American punk rock along with some outlyers like Big Black, the Cramps, the Stooges, Johnny Thunders, the Replacements, etc.

* I know, it's supposed to be all about the game and DIY and the design philosophy, but I love the nostalgic element, too. My life now is like a happy version of my adolescence.