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When writing for my fantasy campaign I have long listened to some of the music of YES. Zepplin's ramble on is also a favorite to kick things off.

After a bit of setting the mood I'll put on a more fantasy oriented soundtrack. Recently I have been listening to the soundtrack to Kingdom of Heaven when writing, mapping and drawing.

Anyone have any real favorites they like to write by or play by?

Arthnek wrote:When writing for my fantasy campaign I have long listened to some of the music of YES. Zepplin's ramble on is also a favorite to kick things off.

After a bit of setting the mood I'll put on a more fantasy oriented soundtrack. Recently I have been listening to the soundtrack to Kingdom of Heaven when writing, mapping and drawing.

Anyone have any real favorites they like to write by or play by?

Somewhere or other there's a thread with lots of music listed ... but it's possibly one that was on the old board before we moved.

I started playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons back in the early nineties and the Metallica Black Album was very popular at the Games Club we frequented. Some 2e Adventures took the names of certain songs from that Album and earlier ones. Consequently, Metallica are heavily associated with D&D for me and I often have their Albums playing when working on material.

I also like to listen to a number of Fantasy Albums, such as the Conan Sound Track, as well as the Sound Tracks to the CRPGs Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale. I have a number of Medieval type Albums, such as In Nomine Domini, Cantigas de Santa Maria and Canciones de Sefarad.

Failing that, my regular rotation of music suffices for audio inspiration.

For play, we tend to listen to Motorhead, Black Sabbath (particularly Call of Cthulhu), Deep Purple, or The Doors.

For any kind of creative work I have to have complete silence.

Led Zeppelin when playing, but not when writing (unless I'm finishing up and am in the mood for something victorious). I find it too distracting when I'm trying to get serious work done.

I'm not really into music while playing, but while writing I like:

Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Dio
Motorhead
Yngwie Malmsteen
Led Zeppelin
Judas Priest
Metallica (earlier stuff)
Et cetera

Warhorse
Electric Wizard
Sleep
Cathedral
Bal Sagoth
Basil Poledouris
Wongraven

When playing, no music... general concensus among our group.

When I'm writing, I prefer ABBA.

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


i loooove the album "gothic" by "paradise lost" for a good dungeon crawl. it's a great (terrible) menace in some hidden part of your brain.

Fer rollin' dice in anger:

Monster Magnet
Type O Negative
Lemmy Rock
Ozzy Rock (Sabbath)
Iron Maiden
Nebula
the Hellacopters
Gluecifer
old Scorpions
High on Fire
Fu Manchu
Zep

Fer planning to roll dice in anger:

As above but add Dylan, Neil Young, J.Cash, Beatles. Rock on.

During game night, we listen to a steady diet of movie and FRPG game soundtracks:
Conan the Barbarian
LotR
Warcraft I and II
Baldur's Gate
ToEE

When creating, I usually listen to:
Rush
Yes
Motorhead
Led Zeppelin
Asia, the first album (it was out when I was first getting into D&D, and always puts me in the mood)
sometimes Jethro Tull

In no particular order:

Hawkwind
Yes
old Marillion
old Genesis
Renaissance
old Metallica
old Black Sabbath
Fields of the Nephilim
Porcupine Tree
older Pink Floyd
older Queensryche
old Tangerine Dream
Ozric Tentacles
Rush
King Crimson
The Police
Godspeed You Black Emperor
A Silver Mt. Zion
Mother Love Bone
Danzig's Black Aria
ELP's Tarkus or Trilogy
various soundtracks (Highlander, The Thing, LOTR, Bablyon 5, X-Files, etc.) and classicals (Scheherezade, Peer Gynt, etc.) and period instrumentals (Elizabethan lutes, etc.) and spin-offs from the above

May I direct everyone here:
Seems many of us here are into the same thing.

- Wheggi

Have you guys checked these guys out? Heavy metal done with 3 Cellos and a drum. IMHO they rock!

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grodog wrote:Fields of the Nephilim

Heh, they're from Stevenage. It's about 15 miles from my house. I used to drink in the same pub as their bass player.

He's got a new band going now: http://www.nfd.web.com/