DM idea: ask your players to submit a theme song for their character.
Make it optional. We live in the digital age where music is portable, and if you're a roll20 user like me and have to redo all your music anyway, this is the perfect opportunity to get your players to do it for you. If they submit something that doesn't jive with the mood of the game, you don't have to play it ever, and I recommend limiting them to instrumentals.
Cool, now you have a theme song for each character! Now you have cool theme music to play when the party splits up, or to note that it is one particular character's time to shine. Or when that character dies. Or if you just like the song.
I never used to use music in my games, and I've been slowly incorporating it because roll20 made it easy, and now that they made me redo it (not their fault, a partner company collapsed) I've realized what a gift that was to my game. I'll be using music in my IRL games from now on, too.
Posted Mar 7, 2019, 10:08 PM UTC
We use ambient or themed music for our campaign through apps or Spotify. It adds a TON to the game, and definitely helps set tone and mood. DMs should always consider adding music into the mix of possible.
As for character themed music, I actually thought about this the other day. I think it's a good idea, and can let people get another sense of everyone's character, which is always good
My Warlock's theme would be Black Tongue by Mastodon :)