Sound Sets recommendations for Halloween

So this Halloween, I am going to run a short adventure for my group. I am looking for some help with finding proper Sound Sets for it. And maybe not only for it.

Can you recommend the list of sound sets that give a good feel of a scary mood for Halloween? I will derive some custom set for my adventure from them, but searching through hundreds of them nowadays is sooooo painful.

To be exact (because perhaps this will help faster), I want to put my players to the scary foggy forest in which they are being taken to the plane of death (in Dragonlance this will be River of Souls). So I need a scary forest, add some river and some sounds for distant ghosts, banshees, skeleton bones, and zombies perhaps. They will fight the great ancient made of skeletons and undead bodies, who is a guardian of the river. He uses chains for the attack, so some chain attacks would be also nice.

Ideas? What sound set should I use as the base for my custom setup?

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I have ended up with Forest (creepy) sound set mood for starters and added tons of different things from here and there… I am pretty happy with the results. I can share my set as the community one in fact. :slight_smile:

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Heya @ivellios_mirimafea :slight_smile:

More ideas from me. Just in case I find something you haven’t unearthed yet.

I really like the ambiance and music in the “River crossroads” MOOD in the SOUNDSET “Old Svalich Road”

The “River travel on the Styx” in “Exploring avernus” is really nice for a “River of Souls”.

I’m sure you had no problems finding all the monsters(?).

You found the “Spiked chain attack” ONESHOT in the SOUNDSET "Escape from Old Korvosa, right?

Anyone, else? :fire: :crossed_swords:

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“River travel on the Styx” – that sounds (heheh) exactly like something I needed - will look into this.

Also, “Spiked chain attack” - no I haven’t :smiley:

Ohhh you just enriched my sound set by far! Thank you!

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We also just recently release Banshee Battle, which as well as the Banshee includes a really haunting forest, with faint other worldly singing. It also might work really well for the River of souls. Especially if you added in some of the sounds Ben mentioned above

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Thanks guys! I have adjusted my sound set and now it is really sCaRRRy! :ghost:

I have sent it for community publish - I want to share this with others. Maybe they will find it useful. I plan to publish also my short scary scenario I created for this Halloween, so I will link to it, once it’s up. Not this year, but perhaps next someone will take advantage of this (I will put Syrinscape recommendation into the scenario PDF as well).

Happy haunting! :jack_o_lantern:

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This is cool stuff. SUCH great sound design = well done! :slight_smile: :fire: :pizza: :trophy:

So what is it for? A home brew of yours?

Shal I relabel for the community as “Spooky scenes” or “Halloween OneShot Inspiration” or something like that?

Thanks, but I canceled the submission.
I will re-submit this once my adventure is up on DMs Guild, so it can be used together.

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Easy.

Let us know when you are ready. :slight_smile:

@Steve will be the one to take care of you.