We talk a lot about video games on this site, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have plenty of love and respect for the world of tabletop gaming. There’s nothing like sitting around a battle map with some friends and going on an adventure together, and if you can make it easier to get lost in that world, all the better.
If you’re a GM looking to run a great game, audio is a major tool in your repertoire. Music that fits the scene can add a ton to making the experience feel immersive and cinematic. It’s often a bit of an awkward one, though. Finding the tracks you want to use, ordering them properly, trying to figure out when to switch tracks, fixing the volume so you don’t burn out your players’ eardrums, and trying to avoid weird, abrupt transitions.
This is hard enough with VTTs that offer audio, but it’s even trickier if you’re playing in person. When you have to keep track of everything else in the game world, you don’t want to have to stress over your audio either.
Enter Tabletop Tunes.
Music For Your Adventures
This TTPRG-centred music app aims to make it as easy as possible to populate your world with thematic tracks and keep your adventure’s background audio going with no interruptions, weird transitions, or disappointing conclusions.
There are tracks from different parts of the world, based on location. If you want some town music while the party goes shopping? Check the Town Section. Are they walking through a deep woodland? Forest is what you need.
Dynamic Fights
Our favorite bit is the battle music section. This has combat music tracks, arranged by level of enemy. If you’re trying to beat up rats in someone’s cellar? You can pick the Mild combat music.
Off to kill a dragon? You need the boss music.
It’s not just a regular track, too. Each one comes with an intensity slider that you can turn up as things heat up. So if it turns out the rats have got hands, you’re ready.
Then, once combat draws to a close, you have several ending options that finish up the battle music thematically, rather than just awkwardly and anticlimatically switching tracks. There’s one for a glorious victory, one for a crushing defeat, and one for if the party flees from the rat cellar.
This all makes running combat super smooth, audio-wise anyway. It can’t help you organize turn order or keep track of stat blocks.
Ambient Atmospheres
The audio available isn’t just limited to music, either. If you want weather effects, animal sounds, the crackling of a campfire, swings and roars in battle. It’s all at your fingertips, and remarkably easy to use, even on the spot.
There’s another feature, the Magic Soundtrack Assistant that lets you enter a storyline prompt, and it will put together a soundtrack for you.
The app’s music is fully created by a real person, and not through GenAI. The Soundtrack Assistant uses AI to understand and process the prompts, but the tracks are all from the mind of a human composer.
It’s currently quite medieval-themed, but more content is on the way, with different genres like SciFi and Horror coming soon. There are also plans for VTT and Discord integration for online games.
Tabletop Tunes is set to be available via both mobile and web app in your browser. If you’re interested in trying out a sample of Tabletop Tunes for free, you can check it out by clicking here, which comes with a few tracks to test. The service is currently subscription-based, though a hybrid pricing model allowing for One Time purchases will be released very soon.
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