Dungeons & DJs: four tracks from Sonic Legends’ Erika Lieberman
DriveThruRPG recently added four Sonic Legends tracks to its catalog gaming soundtrack MP3s. These four tracks, all by Erika Lieberman, do a great job of delivering what the names imply:
- Desert Battle. My favorite of the four (because it meets an immediate need in my campaign), this track moves from haunting winds and exotic melodies to the clash of steel and the shouts of combatants, then settles down again at the end.
- Prosperous Tavern. In this track, get the kind of background noise that might characterize a prosperous tavern. For about the first half or so of the track, you have music playing in the background, convincingly integrated into the crowd noises so that you feel there must be bards or musicians performing at the tavern itself.
- Forest Journey. Chirping birds and peaceful melodies characterize this audio track, which DMs could use play quite effectively under a period of rest, down time, or peaceful travel. This track would not work well as background music for a battle.
- Vampire Castle. Although it’s a wonderful track, “Vampire Castle” is the weakest entry in this group of four, if only because there are plenty of other spooky ambient tracks available at lower prices.
All four tracks provide excellent atmosphere, and the titles fit the contents perfectly. However, I must also mention two drawbacks that affect all four tracks. First, the ID3 tags were nonexistent when the products were delivered to me from DriveThruRPG. I don’t know if this is because of problems with DTRPG’s “watermarking” or because of problems with the original files themselves. If DTRPG’s automated process emptied the original ID3 tags, that’s on the vendor, but if the originals had no ID3 tags, that’s on the publisher. Second, these tracks are priced at $2.99 each, which is really rather high for such a product. Compare “Prosperous Tavern” at $2.99 to V Shane’s “Rumors Inn” at $0.50, or “Vampire Castle” to individual tracks off Nox Arcana’s Transylvania at $1.00 each.
Check out my full review of each track at DriveThruRPG, or learn more about Sonic Legends at the company’s own web site.
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