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I find that a good instrumental tune sets the scene for a tabletop game. It adds to the atmosphere, no?
How about the rest of you?
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
I like to listen to "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy again and again.
I even carry a boombox around with me to play it.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
I listen to the Harkonnen music from Battle for Dune.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
For atmospheric music:
If you have some old pc games see if they play on your normal cd players. Usually the first 'track' is the game information, the rest is all the music tracks. I used to play Battlefleet gothic whilst listening to the music off my old Star Wars: Tie Fighter game. I don't know whether this would work with games that come on DVDs, but you could try it.
More seriously, I have the instrumental scores for the LOTR movies, Star Wars IV-VI, Conan the Barbarian, the 3 POTC movies, both Transformers movies & Blade Runner. I cue them up on my mp3 player, pipe it to my stereo speakers and hit shuffle. Nice atmospheric music. Occasionally I'll sneak in some other instrumentals (Orion by Metallica, for instance) to switch it up.
Might have to try techno for dance-off purposes though.
No way no how. I LOVE music, and its too distracting to me to play and hear it. Im a musician (not professionally) and I hear it differently then normal people lol. Its gotta be silent, and then only us laughing at insane dice rolls
We listen to music constantly during games. In fact, the majority of my CD collection is movie soundtracks. Off the top of my head we usually listen to...
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (the full boxed set soundtracks)
Star Wars I, III, IV, V & VI (not II... not ever II).
Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3
The Rock
Star Ship Troopers
God of War II
Total Annihilation (the soundtrack to that game is very good)
Gladiator
Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1-3 (can't wait for 4 to be released)
And quite few others that I can't remember at this time. And I just got the Halo Trilogy soundtrack, Conan the Barbarian, both Stargate SG-1 movie soundtracks, Clone Wars soundtrack, Armageddon soundtrack, Aliens and a few others.
"And what is wrong with their life? What on earth is less reprehensible than the life of the Levovs?"
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed - knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
Before gaming always have some nice Black/Death Metal on. But during the game never, I find it too distracting and then I wouldn't give my best game. Once the dice rolling is done and the corpses have been counted then it's nice to have some tunes to celebrate the victory/mourn the defeat with.
A friend of mine used to own his own little store. By little store I mean it had enough for 2 tables, product, and his register. If we played 40k he would always have Metallica or the Crow soundtrack playing. We never varied from that, but that was fine.
For Fantasy games anything is good, but you have to have metal for 40k.
"Just pull it out and play with it" -Big Nasty B @ Life After the Cover Save
40k: Orks Fantasy: Empire, Beastmen, Warriors of Chaos, and Ogre Kingdoms
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The game room at my FLGS has a dozen 4'x6' tables crammed into a room about the size of a city bus, so once it's full of gamers, there's no way any music could be heard unless it was at concert volume. That's okay, though because I tend to talk a lot both to myself and to my opponents while gaming.
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"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Some days it's random techno, trance, metal, joke songs, whatever someone's ipod has.
Some days it's this on repeat.
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The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence?
When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.
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ph34r's Forgeworld Phobos blog, current WIP: Iron Warriors and Skaven Tau +From Iron Cometh Strength+ +From Strength Cometh Will+ +From Will Cometh Faith+ +From Faith Cometh Honor+ +From Honor Cometh Iron+
The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence?
When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.
I put up some tunes when we game at my place, but the most important thing is to change whatever is playing to Chumbawamba - Tubthumping whenever I play Necrons and have to do my WBB rolls. I plan on putting a small speaker in my monolith so I can use this powerful, demoralizing tool even when I'm on the go!
I get knocked down
But I get back up again
You're never going to keep me down
Recently I havent been listening to music, but I used to listen to alot of aphex twin while gaming. Something about playing a wargame while listening to ambient music seemed to ironic to not do.
Last night's game I had a compilation disc of Social Distortion playing on repeat. Good times.
Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
Being a Tyranid player I gotta say I love the Starship Troopers music playing while I game (especially when I play Imp Guard).
I love it when games have an epic and cinematic feel to them so for certain games I tend to play the soundtracks for Transformers (the score, not song soundtrack), Halo 3 and Gladiator.
Warhammer World in Nottingham play a medly of film scores, one of which is the theme from Conan. I used to love this piece of music, but now I hate it as everytime it comes on my opponent suddenly gets amazing dice rolls and starts to steam rol through my army . Every time, without fail it happens! Its given me a bit of a nervous complex to be honest. Each time it comes on when I'm playing there (I have a friend I visit who lives in Nottingham) I try to stall for time or take a prolonged toilet break until it's over.
. Every time, without fail it happens! 
