Will Savino

Relaxing Piano and Heavy Metal

You guys like opposites? I've got you covered. Two new variants today: a solo piano rendition of "Shelter at Last" and a heavy metal version of "The Cogs." As I spend more time on Music d20, it's inevitable that I'm going to start making tracks that veer farther and farther from the established "fantasy canon" of sounds. I hope you're along for the ride.

"Shelter at Last (Piano)" is mostly straightforward. I thought the original song structure of the lute + psaltery + recorder version o...

The Final Tracks of Season 2!

Hey y'all! I've got two new tracks for you today. To be totally transparent: these were supposed to be released as part of a big collaboration with a bevy of other Patreon creators. However, there have been some scheduling conflicts, and ultimately the release of that project got pushed back until after the release of my new album on Friday. I didn't feel it was fair to y'all for me to release tracks on Spotify before giving them to you here, so I'm just releasing them now!

Fir...

Music d20 Master Post

If you're new to Music d20, or just want to grab everything in one place, this is where you can do so! I'll be updating these links whenever I can, but you can still feel free to just email me to see if there's anything you're missing. Here's how this works: 

• There are .zip files below of all of the standard tracks. If you want the variants and loopable versions, grab them via 2020-05-16 15:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Artist Tier Master Post

This is where you can download .zips of all of my Variant tracks, looping tracks, and minis. The name in the .zip will specify when this file was most recently updated. If you want all of the non-looping standard tracks as well, you can grab them from the Master Post.

The Great Tree Clearing: Collaboration with Neutral Party

I've been itching to do a collaboration with Alex of Neutral Party since I first started Music d20. He's one of the OGs of RPG map makers on Patreon, and his work is always stellar. Luckily, we finally found a time and theme that worked, so today I bring you our collaboration: The Great Tree Clearing! 

Alex's map is perfect for Fey or other woodland encounters, and personally, I can't help but be reminded ...

FREE: The Specialist, Homebrew Class for D&D 5e

Introducing my new homebrew class The Specialist! This is a martial class that can fill many roles in a party, from a ranged damage dealer, to the face, to a debuffer. This is a highly customizable class, able to focus on any Ability Score they choose and selecting from a long list of "Signature Techniques" to give them additional tools in and out of combat. Playing a Specialist means thinking carefully about how best to wield your specific skill set for devastating results, which might mean ...

The Specialist: Homebrew Class, New Track, and Minis from Paper Forge!

Today I bring you something I've been cooking up for a long time: my new homebrew class The Specialist! This is a martial class that can fill many roles in a party, from a ranged damage dealer, to the face, to a debuffer. This is a highly customizable class, able to focus on any Ability Score they choose and selecting from a long list of "Signature Techniques" to give them additional tools in and out of combat. Playing a Specialist means thinking carefully about how best to wield your specifi...

Let's Stay In Touch!

Dang, I don't know about you all, but I'm starting to get pretty lonely in quarantine! I feel like now just might the best time to get the community of Music d20 folks a little tighter. As such, I'm sharing a 24-hour-long invite to the Music d20 discord. Normally, this is only available for the Artist tier and up, but what the hell! We need some new buds in there, so feel free to join up via this link.

Meanwhile, you shou...

Lightning Rail Minus Sci-Fi

I know that synths and weird mechanical wooshes somehow aren't what everyone's looking for from Music d20. I totally get that! I'm a big fan of the strange crunches and sci-fi soundscapes that can elevate a fantasy soundtrack into something more distinct, but a lot of y'all need strictly high fantasy tunes, and I want to help you with that!

This purely orchestral version of my Lightning Rail track should fit that bill perfectly. This is much more Back To The Future and...

Riding the Lightning Rail - Collaboration with Venatus Maps

A few weeks ago, I brought you a brand new collaboration with Venatus Maps, a regional map for his setting The Great Expanse. When I heard he was working on a hybrid map / asset combo for the railroad in the region, I honestly couldn't believe the fortuitous timing. Earlier this week, y'all voted on "Riding the Lightning Ra...

Track Requests: May 2020

It looks like we're finally done with Winter here in Central Michigan, so that can only mean one thing: it's officially been Spring for almost a month and a half! I've actually got a few tracks already in the vault for May, but I'm looking to get a little weird with it this month. Let's push the envelope! What sort of weird tunes are you looking for this month? Vote!

Reminder: you can vote for more than one, so give a nudge to any idea that sounds neat.

April Recap and Track Requests

Hey everyone, I was going to post a new poll today for your May track requests, but I realized I hadn't actually solicited y'all for ideas. If you have any suggestions for new tracks, please drop them in the comments! It's always fun when a patron suggestion ends up winning, because I feel like (ideally) that patrons gets exactly what they want. Anyway, throw those suggestions in the comments.

In other news, April was a big big month over here at Music d20. I released 2020-05-01 21:16:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Grihoo Temple Bonus Tracks!

Hey y'all! I just posted a massive adventure from my friends over at Team Superhydra. If you haven't seen it yet, definitely check it out. Oodles of amazing content, whether you've been following the Titan's Heir questline from the beginning or simply want some dope art, homebrew, music, etc. It includes three t...

Titan's Heir Ch 3. Grihoo | New 3rd-Level Adventure for Fifth Edition

This adventure is designed for three to seven 2nd- to 4th-level characters and is optimized for five characters with an average party level (APL) of 3. Characters outside this level range cannot participate in this adventure. The adventure takes place on the island of The Skeleton Key, first featured in the adventure The Flight of the Predator and then in the follow-up adventure bearing its name. However, it can easily be placed on any remote island ...

Introducing: Music d20 Player

It's finally here! 

After a lot of toying around, I finally have the playback app ready for use! As it stands, Music d20 Player could very well be the only app you app need to tackle all of your in-game RPG music. Here's a quick rundown of how it works:

Currently, Music d20 Player works on PC, Mac, and Linux. Grab the file from the link above, unzip it, install it, and then load up the app from the start menu or finder (or however the hell it works on Linux). When you fire up...

Just The Plucks and Percussion

I admittedly go a bit overboard with my orchestration sometimes. Oddly enough, it seems many of my most popular tracks are the least busy... maybe there's something for me to learn there. With that in mind, I bring you a pared down version of "Streets of Iron and Blood." It retains the general character and structure of the original, but the only melodies and harmonies you hear are those played by my make shift plucky instrument.

I'm sure you know I like to use all sorts of lutes and st...

Dangerous City

Plenty of your time spent in RPG cities consists of walking from shop to shop, talking to quest givers, and inquiring at taverns. However, not all RPG cities are created equally, and some are constant gauntlets of deadly encounters. Maybe it's a city of thieves, or you're deep undercover in enemy territory, or perhaps you're the wanted criminals. In either case, whether you're duking it out in city streets or tensely navigating back alleys, you'll need music that simultaneously screa...

Empty Frontier

My goal for "The Great Expanse" was to make a theme song to fit a Western setting, but one of the hallmarks of Western fiction is the emptiness of the frontier. Yes, there are busy saloons, shootouts, and raging rivers, but a lot of the American West is just... prairies and dunes. For those moments, something that gives an air of Western cinema is great, but you also don't want all the hustle and bustle of my more frenetic music.

This sparser arrangement of "The Great Expanse" is ideal ...

Welcome to The Great Expanse

This week, I've got a super neat collaboration with the fabulous Venatus Maps. He's been working on a Wild West inspired campaign setting, and he tapped to me to make a "theme song" of sorts for his patrons and players. It was a fun challenge to make something that evokes a lot of the tropes of Western scores, but still fits under the larger fantasy umbrella of the rest of my catalog. 

While this track is o...

What do we need more of?

Hey all! Believe it or not, I'm just a few tracks away from finishing up Music d20: Vol. 2. Right now the track list is looking like every Standard track I've released since "Those Who Writhe Below," plus ~5 tracks that I've written but haven't released yet. Generally speaking, I divide these tracks into four categories: Calm, Dungeon, City/Town, and Combat. I think there's a pretty good mix of each of these, and I've tried to account for the fact that games in general feature less dungeoneer...

The Sinister Depths

After posting my track "Honeycoral," patron Вениамин Байков requested a dark and sinister version for dangerous and dreadful deep sea adventures. I thought that was a swell idea, so here's my new variant! Thanks Вениамин!

This version ups the anxiety with some thumping kick drums, some more angular instrumentation, and totally new harmonies. This mostly consists of subtle changes, but I think the net effect is pretty stark. This is perfect for more "dungeon-esque" ...

Aquatic Lairs

While water levels are the bane of my existence in most video games, I think aquatic-themed locales in TTRPGs are often a lot of fun. A little bit magic, imagination, and hand-waving allows for some pretty neat encounters even in DnD (an RPG with like, what, 3 paragraphs on how aquatic combat works?). Lots of RPGs have PC builds, creature stats, and environmental lore all about underwater adventuring, and if you're running an aquatic campaign, you'll need music to score it.

"Honeycoral"...

Quick update!

Hey all! Three quick pieces of news:

First of all, my release schedule for this month might end up being a bit lopsided. Almost all of my planned tracks are part of collaborations that depend on the timing of the folks I work with. You'll still be getting a lot of music this month (maybe more than ever???), but it just might be distributed weirdly throughout the month. 

Secondly, I've updated my patron tiers. They now have fancy titles (Enthusiast, Artist, Virtuoso, and Maest...

New Spotify Playlist: DnD Eastern

Here's another new Spotify playlist to fill your RPG session audio needs: DnD Eastern! If you have a martial arts dojo, a cherry blossom festival, or a pagoda dungeon, the typical fantasy playlists just aren't going to cut it. This playlist was made with those East Asian "inspired" regions and encounters in mind. Still, "East Asia" isn't a monolith, and there are wild...