New SoundPad: DM Tools (Patreon)

Edit: I've replaced the attached backgrounds.zip file with an .ogg version as it supports looping better than .mp3. See the 1/28 post for more info. - Tim

Greetings Patrons,

The first SoundPad of 2021 is in the books.

I had this idea floating around for the better part of a year. I wanted to create a set of grab-and-go sounds for time crunched story tellers. To do this, I needed to create an extremely slimmed-down set of sounds that represented a decent cross section of the types of D&D stories we tell around the table. 

DM Tools is divided into 3 sections:

Backgrounds:

I chose 8 iconic fantasy locations that would hopefully get the most use.  Tavern, Village, City, Dungeon, Castle, Forest, Desert and Jungle.

Each of these sounds was created from sounds from their respective SoundPads, so that's where to go if you want to go deeper. These backgrounds are pre-baked loops that are designed for speed and easy access. They are the only sounds  in DM Tools that loop.

Events:

The Events section are designed to be audio punctuation for your story. These can mimic real-world actions (dice rolls) or in-game actions like skill checks. They can also be used as audio clues for your players. Use Point of Interest a few times while announcing what it is, and after that, your players will know what that sound means. Ditto Secret Nearby.

Event sounds are all one-shots. None of them are looped or are frequency controllable as that wouldn't make sense anyway.

Moods:

Moods are musical tracks. They are short, one-shots in the style of film/tv cues. They are designed to be played as exposition for a scene. They are not musical beds, they are simply meant to establish the mood. Hence the name!

Unlike the other music tracks on SoundPads, every one of these tracks can actually be played on top of each other (but don't do that!). The reason is, that you can manually fade from one to another if you needed to. Each of these tracks is written in the same musical key, so you could, for instance, play the Mystery track and then punctuate it with Surprised. You might need to manually stop the first track, but none of them are too long. You should get the hang of it. 

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I've attached higher quality versions of all 40 tracks below for patrons.  (the 3 and 4 part sounds have been trimmed to just one single sound for convenience).

Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.

Best,

Tim

DM Tools SoundPad