Very well developed and creative characterization. A definite must-have for those into more modern games. Not safe for work or with those who are easily offended, but this information is made quite clear in the product description.

Definitely a tune appropriate for events leading up to a larger, climactic event. Nice Celtic tone. The woodwinds in the background added a great deal of personality to this piece, especially when paired with the haunting vocals.

I’d say this track definitely has more of the “happily” than “depressed” in it. It’s very bouncy, almost bubbly. Even the slower interlude in the middle feels more peaceful than depressed. It’s not a bad choice to loop this for fifteen minutes or so when you have the after-lunch sleepies just to pep up a little bit. For use at the gaming table, you’ll want a scene in your story where everything is pretty much happy-go-lucky. My only serious complaint about the track is that it doesn’t loop well at all, both because of the slide-in/slide-out and a couple of seconds of silence at the end. An updated version with better population of the ID3 tags would be nice to. Although by my usual calculus this track ought probably to receive three stars, I went ahead with four just because the track makes me feel good.

This piece might serve well to score a modern or sci-fi role-playing scene where there isn’t really any immediate danger, but you still want to infuse a bit of intensity and maybe a bit of urgency. It doesn’t quite have the feel of a “race against time,” but it does give you the sense that things are moving along at a decent clip. On the down side, the low-pitched, indistinct vocals—almost a growl—at the beginning of the track seem distracting to me, there’s an electronic pulse throughout much of the piece that’s a bit too intense, and the track doesn’t loop well at all. This offering predates some of the ID3 tag improvements Fishwife Games employed later on. For both quality and usefulness, this track falls somewhere in the middle range of Fishwife Games’s musical offerings.

This track has enough variety to avoid tedium, but not so much that the changes are distracting. For the most part, it’s fairly minimalist in instrumentation, and—no doubt I’m influenced by the title here—puts me in mind of an alien world where advanced technology and tribal societal structures work hand in hand. The track doesn’t seem to be designed for looping, but it does begin and end gracefully enough that looping it won’t be disruptive. The ID3 tags need to be cleaned up; only the title field is populated, and it shouldn’t have all those underscores in it. Otherwise, this piece is a good addition to your musical library for scoring sci-fi role-playing scenes, especially when the PCs are out of their element.

I’m not really sure what it is about this track, but it just doesn’t “work” for me. There’s nothing especially bad about the piece, but nothing especially great about it, either. It’s solidly midrange in quality and effectiveness. It’s one of Fishwife Games’s longer pieces, which is nice, and its loops well if you trim off the second or two of silence at the end (though this is something the end user shouldn’t have to do). It does embody the feel of 70s/80s crime movies, so from that point of view it hits the mark. I think maybe my tepid reaction to the track stems from the fact that the name and artwork imply gunplay, but the music doesn’t. (The ID3 tags need cleanup, too, but I don’t think that perfect ID3 tags would make me like this track better.)

This is a smooth, nonintrusive track that could play very well under a variety of role-playing scenes in any setting from about the 1970s onward, into the distant future. I’d recommend using it for relatively calm scenes when the PCs are in non-threatening situations. It would be good backing for montage moments, travel scenes, or extended periods of investigation in libraries, government offices, and so on—scenes that advance the plot but don’t involve combat, hazards, or other obvious dangers. The ID tags need some cleanup (Fishwife Games has been doing a better job with these in more recent releases), and the track doesn’t loop as well as I’d like, but otherwise it’s a very fine piece of RPG background music.

Parts of this track are really catchy, memorable, and enjoyable … but other parts are just weird and distracting. The basic riffs do a good job of creating an energetic, suspenseful atmosphere, but starting around 2:15 there are odd sound effects that make me think of giant mutant pigeons cooing. This really brings the track down for me; I like everything else about the track, but that center section can’t be ignored. (The ID3 tags are also “messy,” with underscores in the track name and such, but the publisher has being doing a better job with the tags in more recent releases.)

This saxophone-dominated track isn’t quite what I expected. It’s sort of a fusion of jazz, bluegrass, and funk—which actually works out okay musically, but it’s hard for me to picture just what “porch” fits this music best. The tune is catchy and yet reasonably unintrusive, but its setting eludes me. (The ID3 tags also need cleanup, an issue the publisher has addressed well in more recent releases.)

The energy and edge to this track make it a great choice for scoring any kind of action scene in a modern, near-future, or post-apocalyptic setting. The track is exciting and catchy, but not intrusive, and it loops perfectly—just what an RPG soundscape needs to be. The ID3 tags are populated more helpfully than Woodrum’s earlier pieces, though I would still suggest populating the album name tag (perhaps with “Fishwife Games”—at least that’s what I do to group Woodrum’s pieces together in my iTunes library) and I’d still love to have album artwork embedded in the file. Everything else about this piece is top-notch.

I really like this track, so much so that I can leave it loop for hours and not get tired of it. It’s got a great balance of mystery and energy. The techno/electronic instrumentation does limit the applicability at the gaming table to sci-fii, near future, and that sort of thing; it might even work with an occult-themed or otherwise esoteric superhero scenario. I don’t recommend trying to shoehorn it into other, unintended genres like fantasy. My only complaint about this product is the population of the ID3 tags (the title shouldn’t have underscores and doesn’t need to include anything but the title; “Fishwife Games” is not a musical genre; an album name is needed, and album art would be nice).

An indispensable and comprehensive list of the many denizens of both the respected and more dissolute fantasy drinking establishments. However, the list is disappointingly bland in comparison to the contents of others in the "100" series from Fishwife Games and, at times, would benefit from a few more "slobbering thug" and "smelly drifter" types.

A useful piece that would have been improved by a few more verbs, adjectives and other original segues into plot turns

Just what the herbalist recommended for a case of dungeon master's block.

Very nice and spherical music - i used it with success on a long range space journey aboard a jumpship. It fitted the mood perfectly

This track is eerie and even just a bit weird, but in a good way. At first I didn’t really care for it, but it’s strangely addictive. As indicated in the product description, it would work best with a modern, near future, or sci-fi setting; it may be just a bit too high-tech for straight horror, but would fit right in with something like Delta Green or CthulhuTech. The piece loops well (though not seamlessly). The ID3 tags need to be populated more helpfully (an album name would be useful, album art would be nice, the track name shouldn’t have all those underscores in it, and “Fishwife Games” is not a musical genre).