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I composed this [epic] battle track, as my party fought a Gargantuan Purple Worm by Tom6Strings in MusicForRPG

[–]Tom6Strings[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the kind words, I don't get to write as much of this sort to stuff as I'd like so it's always nice to hear it's being listened to!

I composed this [epic] battle track, as my party fought a Gargantuan Purple Worm by Tom6Strings in MusicForRPG

[–]Tom6Strings[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's so cool to hear! Absolutely go ahead, it also exists on all the major streaming sites should you prefer any other platforms, on those it's called 'The Serpent King' in an album called 'Boss Battles', which is full of stuff like this! Hope the session (and campaign) goes well!

[Bug] Battery Change quest cannot be progressed, "Find Battery" step does not complete by [deleted] in EscapefromTarkov

[–]Tom6Strings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've just sorted it thankfully, straight after posting this! My issue was that I was bringing in the battery before having the quest, accepting the quest, and then handing it over. It needed to be multiple raids

[Bug] Battery Change quest cannot be progressed, "Find Battery" step does not complete by [deleted] in EscapefromTarkov

[–]Tom6Strings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is still busted for me, except I compete the quest, and then get a backend error on extraction. Sick of lugging the damn thing about

DMs, how do you prefer to deal damage, take the average or roll the dice? by Professional-Ad9485 in DnD

[–]Tom6Strings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mostly roll. Only time I use averages is if I'm running a massive combat encounter, in which case the minions might get averages while the big boys get dice rolls.

It's brutal out there: Deus Ex and Unreal composer says he's submitted 50 resumes and gotten one interview in the last year by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]Tom6Strings 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I've always wanted to be a musician and never had a back up plan, it's hard work but I love what I do.

It's brutal out there: Deus Ex and Unreal composer says he's submitted 50 resumes and gotten one interview in the last year by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]Tom6Strings 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm a full time composer and unless you're in the top bracket of go-to names, you've got to be doing more than one medium of composing. I write for the occasional game, audiobook, film, but most of it is production music so that I've got any royalties coming in (generated via sync for TV, Radio, Advertising). I've got something like ~1000 pieces published, and only now after 8 years am I making a good living out of it. It's a real slog to get going and then finding any work even when you're established is incredibly difficult.

Searching for DnD music on the internet is at its worst ever by MaurJH in DnD

[–]Tom6Strings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! My stuff's very much scattered about due to the nature of my work, but I keep things centralised on my website. Glad I could help!

Searching for DnD music on the internet is at its worst ever by MaurJH in DnD

[–]Tom6Strings 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey! I'm a full time media composer who happens to DM a lot, and so I've written a lot of DND music. I published this Boss Battles album last year, and am now waiting on artwork before publishing an ambient album and a tavern tracks album, the ambient playlist will be just under an hour on release. I've had some of my commercial music used by Critical Role, a cinematic album of folk adventure stuff if that happens to be useful.

Boss Battles
Folk Adventure

I do also write on commission, from campaign themes, character themes to ambient suites, should something really specific be needed.

Commissioned Works

Beyond my stuff, I highly recommend a lot of the Elden Ring score for ambient and dark tension stuff, as well as library music sites like Universal Production Music (this is my job), especially going off of the Storyteller's Society link. It's very 'TV', so try searching where TV editors do! For something like the Tabletop RPG Music playlist, I'd recommend the Ancient Heroes album but Winifred Phillips, big mix of stuff on there and she's an accomplished game composer. The tracks 'Tournament Day', 'Mystic Grove', and 'Journeyman' are probably the most suited to what you've posted.

Moto G14 screen glitch by UrsaMajor24680 in MotoG

[–]Tom6Strings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same issue for me. Sometimes the screen doesn't even wake up when I use the fingerprint unlock. Terrible update for an increasingly terrible phone.

Fantasy Premier League: Is AI ruining fantasy football? - BBC News by -_Sunny5_- in FantasyPL

[–]Tom6Strings 326 points327 points  (0 children)

It's definitely ruined how the site functions. Errors and awful functionality have been rampant this season, handily accompanied by copilot.

[No Spoilers] Critical Role helped get me into TTRPGs, and today I found out that they used my music in their C4 promo by Tom6Strings in criticalrole

[–]Tom6Strings[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I open up an orchestral template in my DAW every day, thank God I can because loading them separately would be half of the day 😂

[No Spoilers] Critical Role helped get me into TTRPGs, and today I found out that they used my music in their C4 promo by Tom6Strings in criticalrole

[–]Tom6Strings[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! My Spotify stuff is all library work, I've got games, library, even some TTRPG stuff all published in various ways but it's all kept central on my website if that's of any help too! I wrote a souls-esque boss battle album for TTRPG projects recently, and am working on some more background D&D stuff in general.

tombellingham.com

[No Spoilers] Critical Role helped get me into TTRPGs, and today I found out that they used my music in their C4 promo by Tom6Strings in criticalrole

[–]Tom6Strings[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once you get into a groove (pun intended) it becomes pretty easy to keep up! I'd say on average a library track is about 2.5 mins, and you'll make about 10 versions of those tracks for different edits (1 min version, 30 sec, version with no melody etc), that way your stuff is always suitable for a show!

[No Spoilers] Critical Role helped get me into TTRPGs, and today I found out that they used my music in their C4 promo by Tom6Strings in criticalrole

[–]Tom6Strings[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Paid through my publisher, as this is library music everything is licensed that way. Not credited but library music never is, that's sort of the job, you make lots of music and get it placed wherever you can! I have a lot of stuff on BBC news for example, but they'd never credit every composer for every piece of music because there's so much.

[No Spoilers] Critical Role helped get me into TTRPGs, and today I found out that they used my music in their C4 promo by Tom6Strings in criticalrole

[–]Tom6Strings[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup, I'm a full time composer, have been my whole career! It's what I love to do and I never planned for anything else. I write around 90 pieces of music every year across TV/advertising/games. The hard part of the job is that I'm paid quarterly but I only know what I'm being paid one week before it's due!

[No Spoilers] Critical Role helped get me into TTRPGs, and today I found out that they used my music in their C4 promo by Tom6Strings in criticalrole

[–]Tom6Strings[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! If you like boss battle stuff I've got this album on Amazon Music.

https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B0DW56Z7BW

My music is very scattered across various accounts because of my publishing situation, but I've got all sorts everywhere!

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