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    Default Music for my 5e Spelljammer ripoff?

    I am DMing a space campaign on Friday and I need some nice classical or video game songs that will work well in this setting of the vastness of space.
    I am already using Gustav Holt's The Planets so please don't suggest that.
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    YOu can ty the music from the show Exosquad and the theme from the movie Independence Day.
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    spelljammer is basically age of sail in space (the idea that it's science fiction is a common misconception... it's just fantasy in SPAAAAAAAACE!!!!! no seriously, asteroids are islands, planets are continents, wildspace is the water near land, the phlogiston is the deep ocean, complete with currents and everything... it's seriously just age of sail dressed up in a funny costume). if you're actually copying it that closely, that should expand your music selections quite well. for example, you could use pirates of the caribbean.

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    I'm sure you could get some decent utility out of one of the Star Treks' soundtracks. Most of it is ambient enough to not serve as a distraction, but with enough variations on a few melodies that you could theoretically assign theme songs to certain characters.
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    EvE online's soundtrack? It's fantastic if you need ambient in SPAAAACE.
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    The Blue Danube but only when they are approaching a space station type thing... It's a classic (literally)
    Oh and the space station should look like a d20 floating in space.


    The Blue Danube https://open.spotify.com/track/46s8zua6qH4NWJuMzMU807
    or there is this spotify scifi films, movies, and games
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    Its not realy classical (barring some orchestral openings) but some of Coheed and cambria's songs are very evocative of space travel. I'd especially reccomend in keeping secrets of silent earth and gravity's union. You might also want to look into classic sea shanties; they work not just as ambience but also could be used in game as the ship's crew singing to pass the time during a voyage and a interesting role-play prompt.
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    [QUOTE=8wGremlin;22402534]
    Oh and the space station should look like a d20 floating in space.


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    pretty much anything by Apocalyptica, especially their instrumental stuff. And if it were me, I wouldn't be able to resist using Dropkick Murphy's "Hang 'Em High" for one of the epic fights
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    Ayreon's "The Universal Migrator, Part Two: Flight of the Migrator" and The Sword's "Warp Riders", and Arcadea's "Gas Giant" all come to mind. but especially the first two

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    There's the album Other Worlds by Really Slow Motion (check out Spotify)- some of the songs there can be used as general D&D music, but a lot of it definitely has a sci fi bent to it.

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    Fresh Aire V (Mannheim Steamroller) was written to a dream of sailing to the moon. An odd mix of astral and nautical. The more choral pieces work well. The upbeat synth, not so much.

    Between 'Trek, Babylon 5, and the extended Star Wars media, you should be able to find some good pieces that aren't the imperial March.

    Dazed and Confused - the live version from Led Zeppelin's Song Remains the Same has a "guitar solo" in the middle (starts about 9 minutes in) that is rambly, echoey, and trippy as hell. Which happens when you use a bow. When I think"Fantasy space" (or Astral Plane), that's the sound I think of.

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    while we are on the subject of Spelljammer, does anyone know where I can find floor plans for the spelljammer ships?

    I'm not running a spelljammer campaign, but I kinda want to run a semi-space horror session or two for Halloween involving a crashed ship my PCs have to investigate and their otherworldly occupants.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gryndle View Post
    while we are on the subject of Spelljammer, does anyone know where I can find floor plans for the spelljammer ships?

    I'm not running a spelljammer campaign, but I kinda want to run a semi-space horror session or two for Halloween involving a crashed ship my PCs have to investigate and their otherworldly occupants.
    http://www.spelljammer.org/ships/deckplans/ These look right to me, but I've never read the original books so I wouldn't know.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDONP View Post
    http://www.spelljammer.org/ships/deckplans/ These look right to me, but I've never read the original books so I wouldn't know.
    that is perfect, thanks!
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