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1:50 AM

Someone give me fast numbers on this. Fast, doesn't need to be accurate. How long in real-time is a table of 6 players gonna take a full round of turns?

Not counting the time a DM takes to act out the enemies.

MikeQ

1.0 dog year

Miniman

@Axoren 6 minutes.

MikeQ

Depends what game system and what level of play

Axoren

@Miniman Thanks. @MikeQ Why?

5e.

I'm planning out soundtrack for the game.

I'm planning a high-level boss gauntlet for my table.

Miniman

@Axoren It'll be faster for some turns, slower for others, but in terms of budgeting time, I'd go with 1 minute per turn.

Axoren

1:53 AM

So, I want to make sure I have enough music for each fight.

MikeQ

The more complex the gameplay, the longer time between turns. It's not unheard of for a 5-player group to take 30+ minutes per round.

Axoren

That won't happen at our table. If it happened, everyone would take a lunch break and whoever's turn it was would just do something

Not to say that everyone at my table is master tacticians, but we are all fairly snappy with decisions

MikeQ

Sure, ideally it would move at a faster pace. But delays can happen, or people can be slow, or may need to look up rules, and so on

Axoren

1 minute per turn sounds accurate

My plan is that I just need enough music such that I can scramble-loop it and it won't get repetitive.

So, I'm expecting like two to three plays of the same song per combat

I try to have the music be anti-thematic to the setting, so that it contracts with the setting, but matches the action and intensity. The players really like it.

Miniman

@MikeQ Well, yeah. But by the same token, in 5e, there will be turns where someone just says "I attack" and it's over in seconds.

(Depending on party composition, this can easily be most turns.)

Axoren

2:03 AM

Early levels, combats are jazz and bluegrass until they reach later levels where the stakes are higher and things start getting choir vocals and boss-music. But then beyond that tier, I start playing electric guitar (the rockstar levels), then space battle type music (larger than life stakes), then breakbeat (a return to the rockstar levels again, but extra complexity).

BESW

I find that video game soundtracks are good for looping, since they're designed to not get repetitive.

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(But it's best to find games nobody in the group has played.)

Axoren

I'm planning to go through the whole gamut of music genres so that this one-shot feel like an entire journey, and see if they catch onto it.

Nothing says early level shenanigans like Jazz. Especially when everyone's clumsy and squishy.

I just checked my list of songs and yeah, a bunch of them are video game music to titles I haven't played.

BESW

I always felt jazz was one of the most complex and difficult kinds of music to master.

Axoren

They do tend to work REALLY well

To play? 100%. It's very improvisational. When I was learning piano, my teacher told me that writing jazz songs is like letting your fingers write the song before your pen does.

And I could not get into the head space of jazz musicians and play jazz on piano. It's so all over the place

Just doing the really quick rhythms was something you can't just muscle through

But that's almost why it's perfect for early levels.

Everything is wild because everyone's playing new characters and trying to figure stuff out

Crazy things are attempted and nothing is consistent

Shalvenay

2:20 AM

hey there @IgneusJotunn

IgneusJotunn

Hey, how are things?

Shalvenay

alright here, fairly quiet on my end

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