What non-WoW music do you listen to when roleplaying your character?

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Brilliant as WoW’s music is, we all like a bit of diversity. Maybe you’re like me and also enjoy incorporating tracks from other media to immerse yourself in RP? At the risk of being cliche, I like to use many Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and other such tracks with general Asian elements from other games for my Pandaren. Anything in general that helps put me back in that Mists of Pandaria state of mind I miss so much.

Here’s a small few from other games I personally like to listen to:

• Total War: Three Kingdoms - The Guiding Path

• Minecraft: Chinese Mythology - Hanging Monastery

• Starbound - The Deep (BIG thanks to Taran for showing me this track!)

I have more of these if anyone shares interest in my taste, and of course I’d cherish the opportunity to expand on my own list with your suggestions!

What are some of your favorite tracks you listen to that really help put you in the state of mind for roleplaying your character? Maybe it’s something fitting of their race and/or culture? Something to do with who they are as a person? Something that just emits the emotion you associate them with? Let’s hear it, and tell us why you like it!

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For Lahil I always listen to surf rock considering he’s a surfer dude

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Music changes depending on where I’m RPing, I really like this track when in Orgrimmar in the Cleft of Shadows.

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This was only released recently but it’s been nice to listen to honestly - some neat background music.

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I like it! Really gives off a mysterious vibe.

Holy crap! I heard about this project, but I had no idea it was so involved! :heart_eyes:

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I really enjoy listening to Aviators when I’m playing games.

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I’m kidding.

Honestly it depends on the character and scene. I like a lot of the fantasy aesthetic, and honestly my favorite for tavern RP (haven’t done in a while) is a playlist I can’t find anymore on youtube, but randomly “Rains of Castamere” cut into the mix and added a foreboding vibe to the tavern which I could dig.

Here is my best replacement.

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I’m not involved myself but I’m in their public discord and yeah they’re a really passionate group of modders. It’s slow progress but they seem determined to rebuild all of Tamriel in the Skyrim engine, to the same quality of Skyrim itself. Basically making a new game each province, which is super exciting. Last I heard Cyrodiil and Roscrea are closest to being done, with Roscrea in particular not too far off.

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Huh, this track really reminded me of Muse in a strange way.

Aww, you were? :slightly_frowning_face: I tease. Good stuff! Especially for a social atmosphere.

That’s impressive! I used to be an Elder scrolls junkie. Strangely, I’ve never touched ESO. Is there more lore to work with on Roscrea?

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I’ve been super into ESO recently, although sorta played single player. It’s a good game. As for Roscrea, no there’s actually fairly limited in game lore but they’ve used it to make a functioning island society about three times the size of Solstheim if I recall - it’s the smallest of the Beyond Skyrim releases.

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I’ve got several songs that absolutely fit Myst. I absolutely love finding songs to fit RP, music speaks volumes to me in any story, and my mind can go on adventures just listening to some of these songs.

A fun one, though the lyrics are not as accurate. I definitely modeled part of her story after Bonnie and Clyde and the Barrow Gang. Tei and Vor and the Ghostland Gang:

Myst’s most lucrative heist, the Roseflame heist where she went all out even agreeing to marry the nobleman and at the very last second, stabbed him through the heart, except the nobleman had protections in place, and she was forced to flee:

When Myst broke into a stranger’s house after the Roseflame heist, she found a stranger; Aelsa’Mori Mystfire. It was tense for a moment, but she ended up killing Aelsa’Mori, and after she lay dead on her own floor she took her name for herself, hence why my character’s name is “Mystfire”, a thief with a stolen name:

Trapped in a faraway land, with strangers who showed her mercy, she began to study the ways of the monk, and learn how to weave mist for healing and damage:

After her training, she rejoined the Horde around the time of Legion when the Burning Legion attacked the Peak of Serenity, joined an elite Horde military unit under a false name, and fought in the Fourth war until her apparent death from her wounds:

Two songs for this last one, it turns out her death was a ruse, a blackmail by the one and only villain, the Shadow Father. To force her to do his bidding, by holding her daughter’s life in the balance. So she reappeared, and plotted to get her daughter ourt of harm’s way, and then kill the Shadow Father once and for all.


And that’s the story so far. . .

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I listen to the ebb and flow of my rp interactions, varied ambiance tracks to help immerse myself into the scene in which my character find himself, and Hoobastank.

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because I am a person of refined taste:

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…I might have slightly heterodox tastes.

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Jacquell is a bartender in Boralus, so I am big on tavern ambiences, medieval music, old folk songs, and sea shanties. Upon researching sea shanties, I became obsessed! When roleplaying, at the bar at least, I love listening to any playlist on my advertisement post here. ★ {A} Jac's Bartending

I also made a YouTube channel for this character. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3FGhJcsCv03s5qpaZe9wfw/playlists

I sometimes listen to Lord of the Rings elven music when roleplaying one of my kaldorei. Besides that, I do not typically listen to music on any of my other characters.

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You might like this song by Aviators:

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I listen to this when I need to focus my hate.

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