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The Undertrash – City of Mist: Local Legends soundtrack

“The Undertrash is a hard place, cold, dark. It can certainly be unforgiving. But it can also be a welcoming place, where the wounded, ignored, and angry can find a sense of community. This cold, hard, dark place is our home, and we are going to have to fight for it. Nothing is free, not even the things that others discard, and the cost to protect our home will be paid in blood.”

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Today’s track is The Undertrash, p...

Temple of the Shifting Echoes – mystical drone ambience

"The stone halls breathe with a low, uneasy hum. Shadows ripple across carved walls as if stirred by unseen hands, and every step is met with an echo that bends and twists in ways the ear cannot follow."

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The third track of this month’s Mesoamerican-inspired temples theme leans into mystical ambience with a droning, uneasy quality. Temple of the Shifting Echoes uses processed flutes whose phrases scatter through strange pitches, creat...

Battle in the Lost Temple - mystical jungle combat

"A humid wind sweeps through the crumbling stone corridors, carrying the thud of distant drums and the hiss of something slithering in the dark. Torches burn low, shadows stretch long, and the ancient idols watch in silence as the intruders make their stand."

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The second track of this month's Mesoamerican-inspired temples theme dives high-tension mystical combat. Battle in the Lost Temple layers wooden percussion with haunting Aztec-style flutes, horn ...

Dreamer’s Ziggurat - mystical temple ambience

"Thick roots cling to the base of ancient stone. This is a place where dreams linger, and where the line between worlds is soft as moss."

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Today’s track is called Dreamer’s Ziggurat, and it’s part of this month’s theme of Mesoamerican-inspired temples, as suggested by Bard tier supporters.

This piece is calm, textural, and mystical, built for sacred jungle sites and half-forgotten spiritual spaces. A solo female vocal line...

Fortune Row - City of Mist: Local Legends

“Hey can you spare a cig–... Ahh, you’ve noticed the cat. Never mind then, it won’t work on you. I don’t mean my magic – oh, that will work, believe me – but the con. Can’t con people like us, they’re too sharp! Too clever. I guess it’s because they’re always on their toes. There was this one aware woman, she was… you know what, let’s go over to the hotel’s bar, buy me a drink and I’ll tell you all about her.”

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Today’s track is ...

Chinatown - City of Mist: Local Legends soundtrack

“The sign on the Chinatown Gate says ‘Ten-thousand spirits, one City’. It’s to remind us we each have our own gods inside us. Some make us courageous. Some make us meek. Some tempt us to be our worst selves. But no matter how different we are, we are a community that holds tight its traditions and its past, with all of its regrets and triumphs.”

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Today’s track is called Chinatown, and it was written for the official2025-07-25 11:27:51 +0000 UTC View Post

The Spirit Engine - haunted industrial choir

"Old machinery, still running. Ghosts flicker in the haze. Voices echo where they shouldn’t."

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This one’s called The Spirit Engine, and it’s inspired by the ghost-haunted industrial city of Duskval from Blades in the Dark. I wanted to blend that haunted, noir tone with gritty synths, strange pulses, and modern drums, layered in with eerie strings and melodic echoey fragments.

It’s a mix of mystery and dread, for when the g...

Frost and Steel - restrained icy combat

"Snow scatters underfoot. Blades scrape. Each movement is careful, cold, deliberate."

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Today’s track is called Frost & Steel, a more restrained take on combat music as part of the Frosty Mountain Peaks theme. This one’s for skirmishes, standoffs, or icy showdowns. The track is all strings, with evolving dramatic chord progressions, icy tremolos, sharp bursts of fast pizzicato, and creeping pitch bends. There’s a good amount of...

Tabletop RPG Music: Volume 23 is Out Now!

Volume 22 (tracks 211–220) takes you deeper into shadowed corridors, arcane temples, windswept horizons and shifting dreamscapes.

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Lanterns in the Snow – peaceful alpine ambience

"Snow falls gently between steep rooftops. Smoke curls from chimneys. The wind still bites, but the streets are quiet, the light is warm, and for now, everything is calm."

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Today’s track is called Lanterns in the Snow, part of this month’s Frosty Mountain Peaks theme, based on your votes in last month’s Patreon poll. This one focuses on the peaceful side of the mountains, a quiet alpine village tucked among the snow-covered cliffs...

Frozen Vigil – textured ambient unease

"High above the treeline, everything is still. Snow drifts across stone. The cold presses in around you. Nothing stirs, yet the grows heavier, thick with a pressure you can’t quite name."

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Today's track is called Frozen Vigil, part of this month’s Frosty Mountain Peaks theme, based on your votes in the Patreon poll last month. This track sits somewhere between atmosphere and suspense, with a quiet, textural sound that gives ...

Broken Reality – glitchy arcane distortion (collab with Borough Bound)

"The sky stutters. Voices echo with no mouths to shape them. Light bends the wrong way. Something went wrong, and now reality isn’t holding together the way it should."

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Today's track is called Broken Reality, and it’s a collaboration with Borough Bound for their current project, The Shattered Realm: Nulvarith. The idea here is that magic’s been pushed too far, and what’s left...

The Maw Above – rising horror ambience

"There’s something above you. Vast, still, and watching. The air feels stretched thin, like it’s being pulled toward something you can’t see. Every step brings you it, something you were never meant to reach."

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Today's track is a creepy one! The main motif uses constantly ascending tones to build pressure, layered with deep pulses, distorted string textures, atonal choirs, and sudden synth hits. It’s inspired by the Doom soundtrack, but filtered through ...

Druid’s Flight – graceful ambient motion

"Wind rushes past as the canopy opens below. Trees blur into rivers, rivers into sky. You’re not running anymore. You’re drifting, lifting, gliding."

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Today's track was actually a suggestion from one of our Bard tier supporters, CJ, whose druid player ends each adventuring day by soaring in eagle form through the sky. I tried to capture the feeling of flight with fast-moving violin ostinatos, soft piano, and layered reverse textures to create a sense of both...

Help Shape Next Month’s Music – Vote Now!

Hi Bards!

Starting next month, I’m trying out a new format, similar to the monthly themes I tried a while back.

Each release will include three to four tracks built around a single setting, each tailored for a different use: combat, suspense, atmosphere, and possibly something else like a tavern, ritual, exploration, or aftermath scene. The goal is to give you a cohesive set of tracks that fit together naturally within one setti...

Mirrors of Mystery – otherworldly ambient

"Reflections shimmer, but don’t match your movements. Sounds bend and stretch, familiar but not quite right. You take a step forward, and it echoes behind you. The mirror breathes."

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Today's track is called Mirrors of Mystery, and it’s built around a really interesting sample library called Mirrors that tries to mimic synth textures using the orchestra, and vice versa. The result...

Temple of the Dread Sun – strange ancient ruin ambience

"Wind slips through the stone passages. Strange flutes echo from somewhere below. The air is still, but not quiet. Something is awake in the dark. Something old. Something wrong."

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Today's track is directly inspired by the Czepeku map Shadowlands Pyramid, which combines Mesoamerican-style temple architecture with the dread of the Shadowfell. It's a weird...

Dusty Horizon – gentle outback western ambience

The sun hangs low over the hills, painting the dust gold. A dry wind rustles the long grass. Somewhere in the distance, a hawk cries. Boots crunch softly on dry earth, and the quiet pluck of strings drifts through the air like smoke from a campfire.

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Today’s track is Dusty Horizon, a subtle and atmospheric piece inspired by the open outback and dusty frontier towns. It features gentle background plucked guitars and mandolins with that classic wild west-style p...

Godsworn March – tactical orchestral suspense

Steel boots echo on stone. Orders are spoken in low, reverent tones. The chant begins, deep and solemn, warriors advance with divine purpose. The air hums with tension. This is not chaos. This is calculated conviction.

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Today’s track is Godsworn March, a tactical combat/suspense piece that blends traditional orchestra, chanting choirs, solo violin, and some unusual synth layers to create a sense of slow-burning intensity. The pace is deliberate: this isn’t a...

Celestia – heavenly ambient soundscape

You rise above the clouds, weightless in a sky of light. Shimmering motes drift on the breeze, and distant voices echo like memories from a dream. Strings reverberate through the ether, oscillating like the pulse of the heavens. You are no longer on the ground. You are elsewhere. Somewhere divine.

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Today's track is Celestia, a serene and otherworldly ambient piece designed to elevate your game sessions to celestial heights. It features flowing synth pad...

You Meet in a Tavern - acoustic background inn music

You gather in a dim, smoky tavern where the scent of ale and roasting meat fills the air. Around a battered oak table, your party assembles, each of you drawn here by whispered rumors of gold, danger, and destiny. The murmur of other patrons fades as your meeting begins.

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Happy to share with you 'You Meet in a Tavern', a typical rustic fantasy track featuring plucked acoustic instruments replicating the sound of a live band. This track is very much designed to b...

Thieves Guild - sly urban suspense

"You descend into the bowels of the city, where the scent of damp stone and old blood clings to the air. Flickering torchlight reveals a low-ceilinged chamber filled with whispered conversations, shifting shadows, and watchful eyes. Ragged banners bearing a serpent entwined around a dagger hang from the walls, and the atmosphere hums with danger, secrecy, and barely restrained violence."

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Today’s track leans into a dusty, acoustic vibe to evoke the atmosphere ...

Tabletop RPG Music: Volume 22 is Out Now!

Volume 22 (tracks 211–220) dives deep into old ruins, mystical deserts, verdant dreamscapes, and the whispers of psionic realms. Whether you're setting the mood for a tense infiltration or a desperate last stand, this volume's got your campaign covered.

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Psionic - dissonant unsettling suspense

"There are no voices, only impulses. Pressure behind the eyes. Thoughts that aren’t yours slither through your mind like oil through cloth. The air shimmers, but there’s no heat. Something is watching. Something inside."

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Today’s track dives deep into the psychic and the surreal, with a track designed to evoke the creeping dread of psionic interference, mental domination, and otherworldly thought. I had illithid lairs and mind-affecting magic in mind while...

To Die a Hero - emotional heroic farewell

"The battlefield is quiet now, save for the ragged breath of the last defender. Blades lie shattered, the banners torn. He kneels, bloodied but unbroken, eyes fixed on the horizon where the sun dies behind smoke. There is no rescue coming. Only resolve. Only honour."

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Today’s track is an emotional farewell to a grand hero, a defiant last stand which begins with slow strings and percussion, rises with heroic brass, and then slows down for a solemn ending. I had...

Vault of the Shattered Prism - haunting resonant suspense

"As you descend into the vault, the air shifts, dry heat giving way to a chill that hums through your bones. Crystalline shards jut from the walls like frozen lightning, casting fractured reflections in the dim light. Somewhere deeper within, a low, resonant tone thrums, like the vault itself is breathing, waiting."

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Today's track is inspired by the Cradle of Quartz dungeon from the second book in the Outlaws of Alkenstar adventure for Pathfinder 2nd edition. I'...

Deserts of Sahir - suspenseful desert dungeon

"The sun beats down, yet the heat feels…wrong. It doesn’t burn, it clings, like memory. Around you, the dunes twist in unnatural patterns, rising and falling like breath. Mirage or not, shapes move on the horizon towards you."

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Today's track is a middle eastern inspired tension track, perfect for dungeon and desert exploration. The track was inspired by a new campaign I'm playing in (we had our session 0 the other day), in which part of the world is based on...

Relentless Attack - intense orchestral combat

"Again and again the greatsword swings down, battering your shield to splinters. With a roar the warrior kicks up, knocking your helmet from your head. The sun's blinding light reflects from the blade of the sword as it rises up for one final strike."

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Today's track is an orchestral combat theme that just gets faster and faster as it goes on. Perfect for when the combat just doesn't let up and the PCs are getting down to low HP numbers.

Art by the awesome ...

Major Update: New Music Filtering & Playlist Tool in Foundry VTT patreon module!

Hey everyone! I’m super excited to share a huge upgrade to the patreon exclusive version of the Foundry VTT module.

With the latest version of the module, you will find a new button waiting to be clicked in the playlists tab:

A fancy new window will appear before you:

2025-03-07 13:13:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Tabletop RPG Music: Volume 21 is Out Now!

Volume 21 (tracks 201 - 210) takes you on a musical journey though tense war camps. into mysterious etheric dimensions, through rustic fields, and into the darkest of dungeons where unborn gods lay in wait...

🎧 Listen Now: Spotify • 2025-03-06 15:07:12 +0000 UTC View Post