Transport your players to The Vampire's Lakeside Lair

Bardic Tools is the most intuitive, easy-to-use soundboard for TTRPGs.
Because great sound should be a cantrip, not a ritual spell.

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Snowy's Maps

An icon depicting the logo for Snowy's Maps

We are beyond excited to reveal that Bardic Tools is collaborating with the brilliant mapmaker and adventure crafter Snowy's Maps!

Snowy creates beautifully illustrated battlemaps and ready-to-play one-shots for D&D and Pathfinder, designed to drop seamlessly into your campaign or kick off a session with minimal prep. And here at Bardic Tools, we love tools that make games better, easier.

Their latest release takes us into the cold, dark heart of a cave beside a still, moonlit lake—home to a cunning vampire and their terrifying brood. We’re delighted to partner with Snowy to bring this atmospheric lair to life!

We’ve crafted not one, but two full soundscapes, complete with dripping water, unnerving echoes, and plenty more extremely disagreeable sounds, to help you fully immerse your players in this frankly horrible subterranean domain.

In fact, we found this warning scribbled on a piece of parchment, inside the severed hand of the explorer we sent to make the map:

Deep in the cave where no light crawls,

The silence hums through hollow halls.

The vampire feasts on fear and pain,

While souls scream on in endless chain.

As such, we at Bardic Tools do not recommend you visit this place. It's a bad place.

But, if you insist on going, do it in style, with the resources below!

See It In Action!

Here is a little taster for The Vampire's Lakeside Lair, a set of tense, mysterious tracks for those brave souls that dare enter this accursed place.

Drag, drop, play, stop, and rename to your heart's content!

Click "Play Scene" to get started.

Features

Craft Epic Scenes in Seconds

The final fight with the BBEG. The party's epic victory. The death of a comrade. Epic moments deserve great sound.

Instead of scouring the internet, compose a scene in seconds with our library of hundreds of sounds by brilliant composers like Alexander Nakarada and Scott Buckley.

... or Use a Prebuilt One!

From a haunted mansion to a fierie forest, we have created ready-to-use, epic soundscapes to cut down on your prep time.

We add more soundscapes all the time, so make sure to check often! Crafted a great scene and want to share it? Let us know at support@bardic.tools!

Bring Your Own Sound

But what if you already have your own library of sounds?

What if you want your owlbears to sound just so?

No problem! Just create an Empty Scene, and upload your own sound!

And So Much More!

Those were only the features we have videos for! Check out our:

  • Butter-smooth cross-fading
  • Drag-and-drop interface
  • Autosave
  • Rename everything
  • A public roadmap
  • Did I mention cross-fading?

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Bardic Tools a subscription?

Bardic Tools is developed by one person (Hi, my name is Borja, nice to meet you!), in the time I can squeeze after a very busy day job.

While my dream would be to do Bardic Tools full time, I'm not quite there yet. For now, I can only support a small, paying userbase, until I can afford to cut the hours at my day job.

That said! I understand that not everybody will be in a position to pay for Bardic Tools. If you're really interested, but really can't afford it, send me an email, at borja@bardic.tools! I'm sure we can work something out, especially if you're willing to give me feedback to make it better!

Borja Lorente, the creator of the site, eating ramen
What platforms are supported in Bardic Tools?

Bardic Tools is meant to be a Desktop application primarily. We test it routinely in Chrome and Firefox, and have reasonable confidence that it works on Safari Desktop.

It is a web application, so it should work on mobile, but we make no guarantees on the matter. Specifically, we know a lot of the app's functionality is not present on iOS browsers.

I'm a content creator. Can I use these sounds in my stream/videos?

Yes! Well, mostly.

Most sounds in Bardic Tools are licensed under the Bardic Tools License, CC BY 4.0, or other licenses friendly to content creators. Just make sure you give proper attribution to the author of each sound.

You can find the attribution for each sound next to its title in the Library, or in soundcards.

Here is a list of licenses that explicitly don't allow you to reproduce the songs in public settings such as a YouTube video or a Twitch stream:

We have special tools to help you with licensing. Get in touch at support@bardic.tools, and we'll be happy to help!

I play over Discord. Can I use Bardic Tools?

Yes! You have a couple of options.

We recommend using Kenku FM, the best soltution for Discord Audio. It integrates with Discord and allows you to stream audio from a Bardic Tools tab.

Alternatively, you can screen share the browser tab where you have Bardic Tools open, which will broadcast the sound to your players.

Here's a video explaining how to do it (we're working on a more detailed guide of our own).

I play over a VTT. Can I use Bardic Tools?
Unfortunately, the best solution we have for now is to ask you to use Discord to stream the Bardic Tools browser tab, as detailed above.

Is this a dealbreaker for you? Email us at support@bardic.tools with your interest! If many people want this, we'll find a better solution!
What if I buy Bardic Tools and I don't like it?

No problem! If you try out Bardic Tools and don't like it, email us at support@bardic.tools and we'll issue a full refund for the last period you bought, no questions asked.

Well, that's not entirely true. We reserve the right to ask you how we could improve it to suit your needs better, but we'll refund you either way!

When will Bardic Tools leave Early Access?

As soon as I'm happy to call it the best TTRPG soundboard out there.

For that, I need to implement many features that users in the Discord server have requested, as well as making The Library to be much bigger.

If you'd like to see exactly what I'm working on, you can always check The Roadmap. If you'd like to suggest a feature, you can do so anonymously here.

Can I use Bardic Tools on my phone?

Unfortunately, I don't recommend it.

While you can technically open Bardic Tools on any device with a web browser, the phone experience is not polished yet.

If you're interested in using Bardic Tools on your phone, please let me know on our Discord or by sending an email to support@bardic.tools.