I like the idea of having music gently playing in the background durng my RPG sessions. What genre of music would you recommend playing for this RPG?

Also, i would like to find some sort of soundboard full of star wars sound effects for my sessions for extra flair, know where I can find this?

thanks for your time everyone!

If you can get a hold of the Star Wars soundtracks for the movies and/or the games, they'd be perfect

I'd also recommend checking out the Mass Effect and Battlestar Galactica soundtracks.

I guess it all depends on the mood you're trying to set with the music.

http://www.ambient-mixer.com/

http://starwars.com/play/online-activities/soundboards/

Gustov Holst. orchestral suite "The Planets". The "Mars" movement was the insperation for the imperial march. In fact, I had it playing while working at my FLGS and people thought it was a Movie soundtrack they could not place.'

Most any soundtrack with an original score works also.

kinnison said:

Holst The Planets is an awesome album. Completely forgat about it till I read your post. Thanks.

I have musical "Stabs" (if you will) that I use between scenes, or during initiative. I have edited these out of the soundtrack. They are all extremely recognisable parts of the soundtrack… kind of hard to describe here…

For initiative for example, I have a small part of that "driving" String bit… but the trumpets drawn out over the top… kind of goes "dun dun du-du-dun…" over and over. My players know this cue… and they get ready to roll without even asking.

Also once a scene is over, I have a couple transition stabs… like the one in the movie when they switch to a scene at the death star that had has that sweeping strigs then dramatic Brass…bit… "Bum-Bum bum BUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMM".

I am not sure those hysterical attempts to describe made any sense. :-)

I've used "Duel of the Fates" for a few dramatic combat scenes. I figure its appropriate to try to make use of the ONLY good thing that came out of Ep I.

Overall, though, I really hate using music or sound effects in my games. It makes the players louder, which means I have to talk EVEN LOUDER to be heard, and at the end of the night, my voice is just shot.

-WJL

I tried music in my old d20 game and it became a hinderence, mostly because of my slight OCD. I felt the need to hit the cues like it was a true film score and that is next to impossible to do in a tabletop setting. I also had a PC who played a droid and he used a type and talk robot voice app on his tablet. I enjoyed it but some of my other PCs thought it wa annoying

A couple friends of mine highly recommend this: http://www.bluefacegames.com/applications/dmdj/

…as a GM you can alter the mood of the music "real time" with what's going on on the game.

Some one seriously needs to do a sci-fi version of that ap!!!

www.tabletopaudio.com