#glowinthedarkrpg
Trying to add a “theme song” entry to my Touchstones section in my hack about using BitD for Mad Max Fallout Gamma World. Opinions (and suggestions, I love going on music hunts) welcome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxoYdNwDeDQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJxb_ftj3g
Can I suggest Miracle of Sound’s Mad Max: Fury Road inspired song:
https://youtu.be/5YtGaba6rR4
The signal to noise ratio on that hashtag is pretty low…
#glowinthedarkrpg?
I found all my posts with it pretty easily, but I guess it weights your own stuff higher?
Jason Lee thanks for linking that! I had heard that before at some point and lost it.
It probably does. All I see that’s relevant is this post; everything else is just posts about stuff that glows in the dark.
#glowinthedarkgame
#glowinthedarkrpg
#glowinthedarkblades
#glowinthedarkhack
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Dang. Yeah, good call. It’s #glowinthedarkrpg now.
This is a very important decision!
I like Dying Earth for this, but— it takes a while to get going. Dreamthieves has an advantage over it there, but it doesn’t feel as thematically linked to me.
I like Invasion AD the best of these. I think there’s also space to explore something lighter- not going full Fallout, but there’s a zaniness to Fallout-Gamma-World that you could play off of. These feel much Mad Max-ier.
So since we’re a few votes in, I’m going to music nerd out some. 🙂
If Glow in the Dark was just going to be a radioactive Western, it’d be Dreamthieves all the way (the Low Country version, not the High Country track. The High Country track’s more space fantasy to me). I see though, from the results, that everyone else agrees that GitD’s not just a post-apoc western.
Night Marauders kicks in the fucking door with that intro, and the lyrics are actually pretty spot on, and IF GitD was only playing tribes of Raiders comprised of the Reaper playbook and you only ever did Assault plans and never did downtime, then yes, 100%, all the way.
Invasion A.D. makes me think I’m watching the movie-of-the-game on a beat-up VHS tape, and the special effects are going to be rubbery and shoddy but goddamn I am going to be entertained. This one cuts closer to that Gamma World DNA that’s lurking in Glow in the Dark.
Dying Earth starts with that glorious retro synth sound, and once it gets going it’s this sloppy sludgy 70s-inspired rock mess that sounds like wastelanders trudging across some blasted landscape to me, but you’re not wrong about it taking a while to get there. It’s also quite clearly Jack Vance, not Mad Max.
So yeah, I’m conflicted and that’s why. 🙂
Can you say, “the theme song is Dying Earth starting at 2 minutes in”?
Sure could lol! I could also just have a “Music” section instead of locking it to just one song.
Other random inspiring tunes:
“World War III” by Dos Gringos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAUSjvZ2-U
“The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac (I know GotG2 got there first): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1iuSmZHcwY
“Ayatolla of Rock’n’Rolla” by Soulfly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLguuDuzKAU
A music section is an excellent idea. I’ve thought about having a ‘Closing Credits’ song list.
Like Adam Koebel said on one of his Office Hours…es, you can get a ton of ideas from music. I say the more the merrier!
Like the songs listed on this post already. I think if you take them all together, you get a real good sonic picture of what Glow in the Dark is about or what I’m trying to portray, but as it’s a mashup of mashups and a game hack, you need a bunch of music too.