Perhaps more than Kobold, Gnoll is the Heimat Der Katastrophe project I see folks enthuse over most. This is their second album, Music for Dungeons (originally 2018, LP version 2023). Of the RPG-related dungeonsynth I’ve listened to, Gnoll seems to hew closest to the genre’s black metal roots and mixes in touches of more traditional ambient and cinematic music. I kind of bounced of the first one, Citadel of Evil, but this one gets a lot of play.

It’s basically two long tracks, one per side, and it was written to accompany Dungeoneer’s solo game Dungeons (hence the title), which I am unfortunately unfamiliar with — I believe the Peter Pagano album art draws from the game’s art. However, there is a delightful treat: Dungeons & Caverns, a booklet/module for designing dungeons, by none other than Spaghetti Quester. The generator is really more of a prompt-giver, codifying six dungeon types and offering six variants of each, arranged in nesting tables. The real treat is the collection of example dungeons, fully annotated and in color! Twelve of them! They’re great fun and I would totally use them in a game.