Hi folks! A year ago I started putting together a Spotify Playlist series for D&D sessions. In the meantime there are 30 playlists that I’d like to share with you. They are constantly updated and refined, and there will be more in the future.

Overground Exploration

• Ambient Exploration – Abstract and blurry sound textures for calm, relaxing, neutral mood exploration
• Fantasy Exploration – The positive, orchestral side of exploration focusing on the macro of beautiful landscapes
• Mystic Exploration – Exploration with a (mostly) neutral sense of uncertainty, focus on overground investigation
• Mountains – Underscore music with subtle sense of majestic and epic
• Forest – Positive, slightly magical, organic tone
• Ice & Snow – Calm, partially tense, relentless
• Night Atmosphere – Very calm and relaxing

Towns/ Village/ Camp/ Preparation

• Peaceful Atmosphere – Positive, calm, soothing
• Medieval Town – Medieval inspired fantasy music, rather upbeat, busy, sublime
• Medieval Village – More calm than Medieval Town
• Medieval Tavern – A mix of versatile tavern music
• Majestic Atmosphere – Big, epic, positive
• Subtle & Calm Atmospheres – Unobtrusive medieval instrumental music for background
• Magical & Playful – Mostly taken from orchestral soundtracks, overall positive

Tense Exploration

• Desolation – Calm, empty, dismal, slightly hopeless
• Ambivalent – Undefined, slightly contradictory mood, not hinting in any direction; fine line between good and evil; mostly Ambient music
• Slight Tension – Uneasy, ambiguous, something may be lurking. Not yet dungeon music.
• Dungeon Atmosphere – Dark exploration setting for man made structures; Mostly orchestral textures with tense and unsettling mood
• Cave Atmosphere – Organic noise textures with a tiny glimpse of beauty for natural underground caves, caverns or abandoned mines
• Underground Tombs – Eerie, hard to grasp otherworldly textures and haunting choirs. Works best for anything with ghosts or undead.
• Horror – Dark, intense, creepy, straight out nightmarish. Can be used for imminent tough and eerie encounters, and underground battle

Action/ Combat

• Subtle Action – Not yet battle, but something is happening; “be careful” kind of mood
• Pagan – Nordic/ Viking inspired
• Combat: Skirmish – Small scale encounter
• Combat: Tough – For seemingly impossible encounters
• Combat: Epic – If it needs to go big, epic and loud
• Combat: Battle – Epic, big scale; mood: mixed brave and dramatic
• Combat: Humans – Cold, relentless, dangerous, partially hateful
• Combat: Creatures – Repulsive, unknown, unpredictable
• Combat: Tribal – Dark, unpredictable

Hope you like them! Feedback and suggestions are welcome 🙂

Cheers