RPG Sounds: Fantasy 4+

100% recommended. This app has been one of the cornerstones of my Dungeon Master arsenal for years.

It comes preloaded with a good number of sound effects, music, and ambient noises that can all be layered on top of each other, and each layer has its own volume control. As if that weren’t good enough, you can easily upload your own audio files which can be played as a separate layer in the app. This allows for limitless potential in terms of what sort of mood you want to set at the table with your background music.

The developer is extremely helpful and open to feedback. It’s definitely apparent that they genuinely want this to be as good as possible and for your game experience to be elevated by it. Thanks, Dan!

I’ve had this app for about 10 months on my iPhone and have used it A LOT while DMing a campaign with my friends. I love the variety of sounds and the ability of use my own music is nice too, I haven’t upgraded to pro yet (will explain why below) but love the set of features listed. I just wish there was better iPad Pro support.

I just recently got a 10.5” iPad Pro and thought this would be a great chance to upgrade to pro. That way I could use RPG Fantasy as the slide over app, allowing me to quickly change the ambiance and then hide the app so I can use other DM apps in landscape split view. Unfortunately, I discovered this app only supports portrait mode. No landscape, no split view, no slide over. Because of this, I don’t think I’ll upgrade to pro. Even with how great this was on iPhone, I don’t want to use more than one device behind my DM screen–just a matter of personal preference.

I know programming takes time and money, and iPad Pro users are probably a small/almost nonexistent user base. Thus, these features are not priority. If landscape/split view/slide over features were added this app would be PERFECT for all use cases, and purchasing pro version would be definitely recommended.

Im starting to DM and i noticed during other games that even a simple background sound will add a depth to the sessions. This does pretty much exactly what i need it to. You can have a background sound say a quiet forest overlaying a gentle rain, then you can through in the hooting of an owl. Its really nice.

Now time for the reason why it only got 3 stars. Some of the sounds that are included are looped at bad intervals. The beat will be off transitioning from the end of the sound to the beginning. Im not particularly gifted in music but that little bit of OCD i have in the back of my mind finds the poor transitioning really annoying. This doesnt happen with all the included music and ambiance but enough to be noticable.

I know i can fix this problem just by loading some stuff from outside the app but im lazy and its little things like these that take the shine off an otherwise stellar product.