Will Savino

All Hope is Lost

Note: Please send in track requests for the July track request poll! Limit one per patron. If you submit more than one, I'm just going to take whichever you write ...

Minis: Vol. 2

I've got more minis for you today! First up, a note: last time I uploaded some minis, I did not include id3 tags in the "Comments" section, which may have interfered with ...

Puzzle Time

A well-timed puzzle can really break up the intensity of many modern TTRPG sessions. Even if it's not something as obvious as a sliding tile puzzle or a "which poison do I drink" sort of affair, a ...

The Golden Idol | Collaboration with the Goblin Explorer

Hey folks! Today I've got another collaboration with Matt aka The Goblin Explorer. He brings you a stellar map insp...

The King Arrives

Progressing from low-tier adventures to mid-tier can be so exciting in a game like D&D. First you're slaying rats in basements and sewers, and then you're taking on quests from the royal adviso...

Neutral Fantasy Music

I think most of you know by now that the majority of my music is... not that subtle. When I'm making a pirat...

Minis: Vol. 1

tl;dr: I'm going to start releasing the occasional bundle of 1 minute-long tracks designed to be looped. This first bundle is available to everyone, but hereafter the bundles are g...

Track Requests: June 2021

Man, you guys just keep submitting more track requests. I love it! When I started doing these in early 2020, I would have to fill out these polls with random ideas I had, because otherwise there'd ...

Quick Update + Poll

Hey all! First and foremost: please send in track requests! Same rules as always: limit 2 per patron, and please write it in a way that I can share in tomorrow's track request poll...

Music d20: Vol. 5

Hooray! It's release day! Even though I've done this [checks notes] five times now, releasing one of these albums is always very exciting for me. Thanks specifically to your generosity, I'...

Aztec Stems

Every once in a while, I really like stripping down my denser music into its component parts. The less dense arrangements can often shine a light on cool aspects of a track that get lost in the mix...

Ritual Sacrifice

Mesoamerican culture is definitely under-explored in the world of tabletop RPGs. Aztec temples, Incan mountaintops, and great Mayan civilizations are ripe for gaming inspiration, and yet so few RPG...

Typical Town, And Nothing Feels Terribly Wrong

Sometimes pleasant towns are truly just that: pleasant! I find this is rarely the case in RPGs (or in real life, for that matter), but on the off chance it is true, "Andale Has A ...

Typical Town, But Something Feels Terribly Wrong

I was soooo dreading working on this tune when it won the May Track Request Poll (sorry Christian!), but boy, it turned out to be a lot of fun. Here was my strategy:

• 1. Make absolutely ...
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Remembering Home...

"Along the Zizira" is all about the present tense: towns and villages with lively cultures that might be a bit off the beaten path. Places where people are born and die and make lives for themselve...

Lively Riverbanks

I tend to romanticize small river towns. I'm not sure why that is... something about The Mississippi and blues music probably. There's something both sad and romantic about a town whose very draw p...

Sea Ghosts

There's something incredibly unsettling about being alone at sea. A ship drifting in the fog, miles from any land is such a primo horror setting, and I think that's why there are so many pirate-the...

The Depth Watcher | Collaboration with Paper Forge and IADnDMN

Got a great little collabo for you today! It started with a simple premise: what if "beholder" but underwater? Enter the Depth Watcher, codename: SEAHOLDER. Brought to life by my wonderful...

Desert Palace Vibes

I've released plenty of castle music to help you score your standard medieval fortresses and palaces, but there are so many different flavors of castle! A snowy mountaintop citadel should ...

Marauders of the Lost Tomb | A D&D 5e Adventure

Explore the centuries-old Tomb of Emun-Rah in this adventure for three to seven characters, optimized for a party of five characters of 3rd level.

An angelic cat has just informed yo...

Peaceful Piano Musings

Harps are great for fantasy and medieval campaigns, but for something a little more "setting agnostic," solo piano often does the trick. Now the actual fortepiano (i.e. a hammered keyboard...

Home

One of my favorite narrative tricks in longer campaigns is to include a small part of the adventure where the party just ends up going home. Not permanently, of course, but just to say hi ...

Track Requests: May 2021

Hey y'all, I'm posting this late so I'm going to leave this poll open for 48 hours instead of the normal 24. Plus, this is also by far the most requests we've ever gotten in a single month. Cool! L...

May Updates

First and foremost: I'm going to post the track request poll tomorrow since I never dropped a reminder to send in requests. With that said, please send in requests for tra...

New Spotify Playlist: DnD Pirates

Swashbuckling! Drinking! Booty! As someone who's been running a largely pirate-themed campaign for almost 2 years now, I can say definitively that pirate aesthetics + pirate activities make for A+ ...

Let's Take the Stealthy Approach

There's something inherently satisfying about "ghosting" a mission. Pulling off a tricky job fully undetected is (in my experience!) a pretty uncommon occurrence in tabletop RPGs, but when it works...

Rail Baron Robbery | A Great Expanse Adventure

Note: If you just want to grab the music, there's a link to my track at the bottom of this post!

Welcome back to the Great Expanse!

This new addition to Vena...

Dapper Disco Gentleman

Okay, bear with me...

An extremely stylish man with stellar moves does not like your presence in his dancehall of choice. He challenges you to a dance-off... to the death.

My c...

Evil Dapper Gentleman Boss Battle

Patron / Discord user CocoaMix has been gunning for "Evil Dapper Gentleman Boss Battle" to win the track request poll repeatedly for the past few months, and I'm thrilled that he was finally able t...

Nanofluidics THEME SONG

Okay, so this track is likely not going to see a ton of use in your campaigns because it goes from fairly sedate to outrageously loud and bombastic over the course of 3 minutes. THAT SAID, I think ...