Build me an RPG playlist on a (time) budget

June 10, 2017 6:07 AM

I am looking for background ambience music to play when I game master for my RPG group. I'm looking for sources for music that I can use as background for various fantasy scenes. Twist: I don't have much time to build the playlists and sort the music, so I'm looking for resources or recommendations that can do that work for me.

The game is a D&D fantasy adventure, so the kinds of scenes I need to score are town squares, taverns, forests, caverns, wilderness, seas, and of course battles. The campaign can go in a lot of directions, so other kinds of music that would fit into a D&D universe are also welcome.

I would love if there are playlists that exist for these kinds of scenes that I can just purchase the music. If there is a fan-made playlist that sorts a reasonable group of albums into these categories so I can just purchase the albums and copy the playlists, that would work too.

posted by philosophygeek to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (5 answers total)

Tabletop Audio. I've also used MyNoise background noise for plain background.
posted by cobaltnine at 6:27 AM on June 10, 2017 [5 favorites]

I listen to a role playing podcast that uses Syrinscape for their ambient audio.
posted by Night_owl at 8:07 AM on June 10, 2017

Tabletop audio is amazing.
posted by Sebmojo at 3:31 PM on June 10, 2017

Spotify has many great movie soundtrack playlists.
posted by canine epigram at 7:46 PM on June 11, 2017

Anyone with Sonos speakers, how would I stream from a website loaded on my phone?
posted by canine epigram at 7:55 PM on June 11, 2017