Music in your games

[AslanC]

Originally posted by Don Mappin
Me too! I even play the soundtrack from the episode!

In another thread Don mentioned using the Doomsday device episode music while running the FASA module.

What music do you use in your Trek games?

I have recently begun looking for the TMP - UDC CDs for my upcomming game, but am always on the look out for other suggestions.

[Sea Tyger]

Well, for me, I don't play a lot of series-specific music for any of my campaigns...we just try to find nice background music to augment the evening.

Y'know, like good Styx, Rush...Shakira....

Shakira's tracks give me happy feet.

[Don Mappin]

In Trek, I use bits from a lot of the soundtracks. (Yea, I own them all. I'm sad.)

Space Battles
ST2, of course!

General mood music
Insurrection, ST:TMP, or Voyager

Ominous, dangerous situations
ST:FC

Doomsday Machine
The "Amok Time/Doomsday Machine" TOS soundrack

Tons of good TNG Trek effects
ST:G (about 30+ bonus tracks of authentic sound effects)

Don't Give a Shit
Nemesis, of course

[Lt Cmdr Matt]

Here are some threads with some information in them.

http://forum.trek-rpg.net/showthread...ighlight=Music
http://forum.trek-rpg.net/showthread...ighlight=Music
http://forum.trek-rpg.net/showthread...ighlight=Music
http://forum.trek-rpg.net/showthread...ighlight=Music

[AslanC]

Don: thanks for the info about ST:G, I gotta pick that one up

Matt: thanks for those links, looks like I am not the only bonehead who started a musci thread without checking for others. D'oh!

[Lt Cmdr Matt]

Originally posted by AslanC
Matt: thanks for those links, looks like I am not the only bonehead who started a musci thread without checking for others. D'oh!

No problems...I figured that I had a free moment so I would bring those to your attention sir.

[Phantom]

I have never run a ST game, except for one PBP one, so music didn't figure there. I have, however, used "the Battle" theme from Gladiator for the major fight scenes in my L5R game, and "Songs in the tune of X" (think that was the name of it) in my previous Conspiracy X game. Both worked very well for what I wanted.

Perhaps both could work in Trek as well. The former for fight scenes (really big ones ) and the latter for Secton 31 games.

[Don Mappin]

I use a lot of Gladiator for my Fading Suns game. I also use audio tracks from the "Emperor of the Fading Suns" computer game, plus bits of the "Icewind Dale" computer game soundtrack as well in that campaign. Good, epic awe-inspiring music.

For the really sad stuff (for any game) I use the love theme from "Mulholland Drive." (Warning: You'll wade into some deep depression if you listen to it for too long.)

[Lancer]

I have never used much music in my Trek games. I guess, subconsciuosly, I figured that people who play in a Trek game would have a feeling for what music would be playing in the background if it was a 'real' episode.

As for other games I don't use much music either as I had some bad experience with it. I once used music for my Dragonlance game I thought moody and somewhat melancholic (Toshinori Kondo's 'Red City Smoke') and after five minutes everone cried out in pain, wanting to jump out the nearest window.
Since then I only play music that I consider a 'genre staple' - e.g. the Conan or Braveheart soundtracks for heroic fantasy.

Whatever you use as music for your gaming sessions, remember that we all may hear the same sounds, but what we associate with it can be quite different from person to person.
Better to play less music than the wrong music would be my advice.

[Phantom]

When I do use music in a game it is on a low volume setting, just enough to hear but not interfere with the game.