Re: I'm still back and now a question about music

:         I'm working on some campaign background and two things came up.
:
:         The first is bathing.  Obviously the races with smooth skin and
not too
: much hair (humans, elves, dwarves, hobbits, gnomes, giff, etc) all bathe
: and like it.  However it occurred to me that the other races probably
: wouldn't want to bathe to get clean.
:         The really hairy races, hadozee and grommams probably wouldn't
want to
: bathe more than once every two weeks or so just because it would take so
: long to get their fur dry.  However, like dogs, cats, etc, they'd
probably
: want to brush their fur at least once a day.
:         The insectoid races, thri-kreen, rastipedes, and xixchil, would
probably
: prefer to be wiped off with a sponge or damp cloth and get their
: exoskeletons waxed.
:         But what do the scaley folks do?  Everyone knows that the
lizardmen swim,
: and the hurwaeti are also semi-aquatic, but what about the dracons?
:         Just a thought, and I'm wondering what anyone else thinks.

My personal favorite way is a _Cleaning Cantrip_.  :-)

:         The more important question I have is: what music instruments,
and style
: of music, do you think the various races would enjoy?  Most people I've
: spoken to tend to think of the elves as preferring woodwind instruments
and
: perhaps some strings, the dwarves as being into percussion instruments
: (drumming and chanting), etc.
:         I tend to think that the giff would have pretty simple taste in
music,
: tending towards drums and probably brass instruments with marches and
such
: like being their preferred music.  I can see the hadozee and grommams
being
: into woodwinds and flutes.  And there I come to something of a stop.  I'm
: not a music expert at all, and I'm wondering what the you people think.
: Especially on the subject of the insectoid races.  I had a semi-crazy
: thought of the thri-kreen being into bagpipe style instruments, and I'm
not
: sure if that works at all....

We humans will listen to anything that makes noise (I just heard of a New
Zealander who released an album entitled Suburbia I or something like it.
It's an hour and a half of lawn mower.), so I figure most of the other
races will be pretty much like that, with a few exceptions. I see the elves
using light airy simple wooden instruments like a panflute or ocarina, or
simple stringed instruments. But the music they make with them would seem
impossible from such simple instruments. I see the dwarves as using horns
and drums. Their music would be like marches and chants, even the
non-battle songs (if there are any!). Woodland creatures would enjoy
variations of the same music and instruments as the elves. Grommam and
hadozee? Probably most anything, with a leaning toward acoustic strings.
Giff would like the deep horns and bass drums, with lots of cymbal clashes
and a cannon or two (of course) in a marching band. I think the insectoid
races would like strings with bows, like bass, viola and violin (or their
historic predecessors).

:                 Brad, still weird after all this time

I like weird. Wanna come play in my campaign?

Jim.