Bardic Tools Update - January 2025 Hey! Borja here. I hope you've had a great start to 2025. It's been an... interesting couple of months, hasn't it? In this email: * How is The Library doing? (spoilers: Very well 🚀 ) * New scenes by an awesome community member. * The most requested feature is
Unfortunate News for Bardic Tools Hello folks! I have unfortunate news. As you may know, a lot of the sound effects from The Library come from Pixabay, a repository of sounds. It has recently come to my attention that Bardic Tools may be in breach of their Licensing agreement. I thought I understood the licensing
New Calculator! Skill Check DC Creator Hey! Borja here. Thank you for signing up to learn about new DM tools! Just an FYI, I've just released a new calculator: A Skill Check DC Creator. As a DM, I want to present challenges to my players. I want control over how much or how little
Bardic Tools Update - November 2024 Borja here. Another month, another batch of really cool stuff to share with you! I've added amazing new features (thank you everyone in the Discord for your inspiration bardic.tools/discord!), and I'm so happy to announce our first partnership with a D&D publisher!
The Bloodwood Beckons: A Chilling Collaboration with Crow and Crown We are beyond excited to share some epic news: Bardic Tools is teaming up with the talented storytellers at Crow and Crown, creators of premium 5e adventures, to bring their immersive campaign, Bloodwood, to life like never before! The Bloodwood Comes Alive In this collaboration, we’ve crafted five fully
How To Redeem A Bardic Tools Gift Card Congratulations! Someone just gifted you a subscription to Bardic Tools. Perhaps one of your players is expressing their gratitude. Perhaps your DM is sending you a signal to maybe try your hand at it. Whatever it is, you are now seeing a screen like this: What do you with it?
Bardic Tools Update - October 2024 Hey folks! Borja here. It's been a full few months of exciting developments in Bardic Tools. With the feedback from our wonderful Discord (https://bardic.tools/discord), Bardic Tools is really shaping up to be the sleekest, easiest to use TTRPG soundboard out there. So, what's
Sound For DMs 102 - Find Music That Doesn't Suck Hi! I'm Borja, I've been DMing for 4 years, and in this series of articles I want to share the keys that have leveled up how I use sound in my games. If you're a DM and are not sure how to introduce sound
Sound For DMs 101 - RPG Sound is Like Being a Master Chef Contestant Hi! I'm Borja, I've been DMing for 4 years, and in this series of articles I want to share the keys that have leveled up the sound in my games. If you're a DM and are not sure how to introduce sound into your
New Composers! New Scenes! New Features! Oh, my! Hello! It's been a busy few days! Unfortunately, this week I've started at my new full time job, so I haven't had as much time as I'd like to work on Bardic Tools. But don't despair! I still have a
Your Boss Fights Are Tiny Stories This is going to be a living article. I will keep adding to it and refining it as I develop this idea further. I love "The Monsters Know What They're Doing", by Keith Ammann. I love it because it gives a relatively static piece of text
I Put a Bloodborne Fight in My Curse of Strahd Campaign Don't worry, everybody survived... at least eventually. Let me explain. While DMing our Curse of Strahd campaign I discovered that nothing evokes real, actual horror like a fight with a boss that (1) you don't think you can escape, and (2) you're pretty sure
Featured Introducing "The Library": My new favourite feature! Hey folks! It's been a while since the last update from Bardic Tools. I've been busy with many things (hello, FreeRPG day!), but I just finished the most exciting feature I've added to Bardic Tools so far, and I want to tell you about
