What is some good background or inspirational music for *D&D games?
As with books and music, the total list of possible musical selections is vastly larger than will fit in this document. What follows is a selection of the most commonly-suggested answers to this question, as well as some other possibilities, included to round out the list. Note that, while fantasy movies or classical music would seem to be the “most appropriate” areas to look in, music can often cross “genre” boundaries in ways books or movies cannot; thus, while the following selections do include a significant number of suggestions culled from fantasy movies and classical composers, there are also a number of rock musicians, science fiction movies, and so forth represented. For the music purists among us, please note that I use “classical” here not as a technical musical term, but rather in the music-store sense of a catch-all term for medieval, renaissance, baroque, rococco, classical, romantic, modern classical, etc. music. For those albums which have not generally been recorded so
