Note: Please send in track requests for the July track request poll! Limit one per patron. If you submit more than one, I'm just going to take whichever you write first.
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This month's winner of the Track Request Poll was Discord use...
2021-06-24 12:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostI've got more minis for you today! First up, a note: last time I uploaded some minis, I did not include id3 tags in the "Comments" section, which may have interfered with your ability to play these in 2021-06-21 12:09:56 +0000 UTC View Post
A well-timed puzzle can really break up the intensity of many modern TTRPG sessions. Even if it's not something as obvious as a sliding tile puzzle or a "which poison do I drink" sort of affair, a locked room with any non-obvious mechanism can keep the party entertained for a minute before it's back to slaying skeletons and d...
2021-06-15 21:54:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! Today I've got another collaboration with Matt aka The Goblin Explorer. He brings you a stellar map inspired by the intro scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark. If your party can resist attempting to grab the Golden Idol, well... they ha...
2021-06-15 21:50:29 +0000 UTC View PostProgressing from low-tier adventures to mid-tier can be so exciting in a game like D&D. First you're slaying rats in basements and sewers, and then you're taking on quests from the royal advisor, advancing beyond the know realms at the behest of the king. Simply being afforded the opportunity to speak with the royals can ...
2021-06-09 13:21:03 +0000 UTC View PostI think most of you know by now that the majority of my music is... not that subtle. When I'm making a pirate ghost song, I want it to sound like a pirate ghost song. This is often great for TTRPGs! With any luck, players won...
2021-06-09 13:12:51 +0000 UTC View Post
tl;dr: I'm going to start releasing the occasional bundle of 1 minute-long tracks designed to be looped. This first bundle is available to everyone, but hereafter the bundles are going to be for my Artist Tier + patrons.
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In my time worki...
2021-06-03 13:49:35 +0000 UTC View PostMan, you guys just keep submitting more track requests. I love it! When I started doing these in early 2020, I would have to fill out these polls with random ideas I had, because otherwise there'd be, like, 2 or 3 entries per month. Now there are over 20! Dang!
UNFORTUNATELY apparently there is a limit ...
2021-06-01 13:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! First and foremost: please send in track requests! Same rules as always: limit 2 per patron, and please write it in a way that I can share in tomorrow's track request poll.
Next up, I'm very curious about how y'all typically listen to music when playing RPGs. It seems there's a wide ga...
2021-05-31 15:44:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hooray! It's release day! Even though I've done this [checks notes] five times now, releasing one of these albums is always very exciting for me. Thanks specifically to your generosity, I'm able to dedicate hours and hours and hours to making this music and sharing it with the world. To be clear: if I relied on strea...
2021-05-28 12:40:29 +0000 UTC View PostEvery once in a while, I really like stripping down my denser music into its component parts. The less dense arrangements can often shine a light on cool aspects of a track that get lost in the mix a bit once things get overcrowded. That's definitely the case for "The Old Gods Hunger," whose percussion track alone is so rich ...
2021-05-27 13:18:30 +0000 UTC View PostMesoamerican culture is definitely under-explored in the world of tabletop RPGs. Aztec temples, Incan mountaintops, and great Mayan civilizations are ripe for gaming inspiration, and yet so few RPGs engage with these cultures meaningfully! My bud DM Dave h...
2021-05-27 13:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes pleasant towns are truly just that: pleasant! I find this is rarely the case in RPGs (or in real life, for that matter), but on the off chance it is true, "Andale Has A Little Secret (All Good)" is a totally appropriate score for such a town. Early game villages, short respites in towns that haven'...
2021-05-24 14:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostI was soooo dreading working on this tune when it won the May Track Request Poll (sorry Christian!), but boy, it turned out to be a lot of fun. Here was my strategy:
"Along the Zizira" is all about the present tense: towns and villages with lively cultures that might be a bit off the beaten path. Places where people are born and die and make lives for themselves. A town (perhaps!) where you, fine adventurer, may have grown up. Maybe you're passing by town, or maybe you've encountered an N...
2021-05-18 17:38:08 +0000 UTC View PostI tend to romanticize small river towns. I'm not sure why that is... something about The Mississippi and blues music probably. There's something both sad and romantic about a town whose very draw pulls you in and just as quickly pulls you away from it. By nature, your stay in a river town is likely to be temporary.
<... 2021-05-18 17:29:14 +0000 UTC View PostThere's something incredibly unsettling about being alone at sea. A ship drifting in the fog, miles from any land is such a primo horror setting, and I think that's why there are so many pirate-themed ghost stories in fiction. There's no where to go, unless you feel like the terrors of the deep are more less dangerou...
2021-05-14 14:33:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Got a great little collabo for you today! It started with a simple premise: what if "beholder" but underwater? Enter the Depth Watcher, codename: SEAHOLDER. Brought to life by my wonderful collaborators Paper Forge and 2021-05-14 14:24:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I've released plenty of castle music to help you score your standard medieval fortresses and palaces, but there are so many different flavors of castle! A snowy mountaintop citadel should absolutely sound different than a pirate fortress or renaissance era estate. As a GM, you can really share so much about your sett...
2021-05-10 15:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Explore the centuries-old Tomb of Emun-Rah in this adventure for three to seven characters, optimized for a party of five characters of 3rd level.
An angelic cat has just informed you that marauders have begun to defile a nearby pyramid, and that it up to you to stop them. Will you heed the cat’s warning and ...
2021-05-10 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHarps are great for fantasy and medieval campaigns, but for something a little more "setting agnostic," solo piano often does the trick. Now the actual fortepiano (i.e. a hammered keyboard string instrument with variable loudness) wasn't invented until the 18th century, so if you DO want to be authentic to a...
2021-05-06 16:05:23 +0000 UTC View PostOne of my favorite narrative tricks in longer campaigns is to include a small part of the adventure where the party just ends up going home. Not permanently, of course, but just to say hi to to any non-murdered family members, to explore their old environs, and to raise the stakes for why saving the world is...
2021-05-06 15:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, I'm posting this late so I'm going to leave this poll open for 48 hours instead of the normal 24. Plus, this is also by far the most requests we've ever gotten in a single month. Cool! Lots of competition.
Anyway, same rules as always:
First and foremost: I'm going to post the track request poll tomorrow since I never dropped a reminder to send in requests. With that said, please send in requests for tracks! Same rules as always: no more than 2 requests per patron, and please provide something I can include easily in one of the &nb...
2021-05-03 14:51:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Swashbuckling! Drinking! Booty! As someone who's been running a largely pirate-themed campaign for almost 2 years now, I can say definitively that pirate aesthetics + pirate activities make for A+ optimal RPG sessions. Pirate adventures have everything: epic combat, thrilling intrigue, and plenty of "roleplaying" scenes where...
2021-04-30 00:23:10 +0000 UTC View PostThere's something inherently satisfying about "ghosting" a mission. Pulling off a tricky job fully undetected is (in my experience!) a pretty uncommon occurrence in tabletop RPGs, but when it works, it feels awesome. Especially when avoiding violence is a primary goal, being slow and methodical can be even more exhilarating t...
2021-04-26 18:57:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: If you just want to grab the music, there's a link to my track at the bottom of this post!
This new addition to Venatus Maps's wild-west themed campaign setting brings together some of my favorite creators from the TTRPG scene to bring you a full...
2021-04-26 18:48:11 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, bear with me...
An extremely stylish man with stellar moves does not like your presence in his dancehall of choice. He challenges you to a dance-off... to the death.
My campaigns have definitely gotten weirder over the years, and I could certainly see this being a plot point in one of my campaigns. ...
2021-04-17 15:30:13 +0000 UTC View PostPatron / Discord user CocoaMix has been gunning for "Evil Dapper Gentleman Boss Battle" to win the track request poll repeatedly for the past few months, and I'm thrilled that he was finally able to get his wish. I tend do so many big monster fight combat tracks or dueling armies or vengeful gods or whatever, but sometimes th...
2021-04-17 15:23:18 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so this track is likely not going to see a ton of use in your campaigns because it goes from fairly sedate to outrageously loud and bombastic over the course of 3 minutes. THAT SAID, I think it's cool as hell, so I'm giving it to you anyway. Enjoy!
When would you actually use "Subtle Fluid"? As a theme song, a pum...
2021-04-11 19:27:33 +0000 UTC View Post
