u/Quackersslikesanime

Hi! First time DM here, looking for background music for my campaign. The campaign takes place in a desert, a pyramid, and a mysterious house. The monsters are mostly undead. I am looking for 2 songs for each of these settings: Calm (roleplay, out of battle), Battle, mysterious/spooky, and dramatic (one tense, very dramatic). Those are the situations. Sound effects are also useful for each of these. I'm mostly looking for video games music. Almost entirely hollow knight and maybe some Toby Fox too. I already know most of these, but it's always easier if I know where to start. Also I need some other props and ways to set the mood. Right now I only have a chess board and some violence.Thanks and good luck!

Edit: Sorry, when I said was mostly looking for video games music, I meant I was only looking for video game music lol. I will try other things out though.

Hi! I just started my first campaign as a DM having never played DnD before. Right now there is a major NPC/Villain that needs stats. The campaign takes place in a desert with large, Giza-style pyramid and a house. Long story short, the party went to the house, met this NPC, and discovered that he is insane. He says he has been in the desert for a long time with no memory of how he got there. He is obsessed with a strange book that puts an unbreakable lock spell on the door. He turns out to be evil, having tied someone up in the basement luring one character in and locking the others out. The book possesses one of the people outside, dragging them into the house and making them fight the other player. After the fight the possessed one breaks free, gaining residual book powers, but the NPC escapes. Later, they find out he was following them Gollum-style, and then he defeats some of there enemies. After that, they can't shake him, so he follows them around the pyramid. Eventually there is a mini-boss (a wight vs. 4 level 3 players. Feedback on that would also be useful since I haven't gotten even close to there yet.) which ultimately ends up with the evil book being stolen and the NPC becoming their guide through the pyramid as he hunts for the book. I have no clue when this will happen, but eventually he'll find the book and turn on the party. I don't really know how boss fights work so I'm just looking for stats and I'm gonna treat it like a normal fight. If it helps, some of the other enemies are reflavored zombies, ghouls, and wights, and possibly even a revenant (I got these from another reddit question I had, so feel free to look at that). I think that the final boss is going to be some sort of undead pharaoh. The magic book, gives spells such as wall of force, imprisonment, arcane lock, geas, modify memory, erupting earth, thorn growth, among others that follow a similar controlling vibe. I don't know if those help with the aesthetic or not but try your best and good luck! Thank you!

I just started doing my first campaign (having 0 DnD experience) and have been kind of improvising stats. Essentially the party is in a desert. The current villain has a book that possesses people (themself included). The basic monsters are "husks" that are basically half-dead desert zombies that have been consumed by the book and tortured. They're not actually zombies and they can be revived if the ritual has not been completed yet. Anyway, I just need stats that somewhat fit this situation. (Sorry if this was a bad post, it's my first time on Reddit)