I've been using PocketBard + Kenku FM + Discord to share audio for my games. I realize WotC isn't in the soundtrack business, but that's OK. Outsource it.
Soundtracks add a significant element to the experience. They carry the ambiance while the players' silently think how their characters would respond. And it's a lot easier to pretend you're at a carnival and get hyped up if you have the music and noise all around you to set the ambiance... versus some players chatting in an otherwise silent room.
There have been many D&D video games over the years, so surely some of those assets could be brought in with minimal licensing issues. And by adding audio to your marketplace, you unlock an entirely new market segment for content creators. For example, Tim Roven of Tabletop Audio. He has a lot of free soundtracks as well as Patreon-only tracks. He could release all of them through your marketplace to make them more accessible by integrating them with your VTT. His free works could remain free, and his Patreon-only tracks could be individual purchases or bundles. It wouldn't interrupt his current operations, he and DDB may both make some money off of it, and DDB would be able to offer a better, more polished product to players unable to jump through all the hoops it takes to get streaming music over Discord. (Though Avrae's API could be extended to enable Discord to control a VTT session's audio.)
I've been using PocketBard + Kenku FM + Discord to share audio for my games. I realize WotC isn't in the soundtrack business, but that's OK. Outsource it.
Soundtracks add a significant element to the experience. They carry the ambiance while the players' silently think how their characters would respond. And it's a lot easier to pretend you're at a carnival and get hyped up if you have the music and noise all around you to set the ambiance... versus some players chatting in an otherwise silent room.
There have been many D&D video games over the years, so surely some of those assets could be brought in with minimal licensing issues. And by adding audio to your marketplace, you unlock an entirely new market segment for content creators. For example, Tim Roven of Tabletop Audio. He has a lot of free soundtracks as well as Patreon-only tracks. He could release all of them through your marketplace to make them more accessible by integrating them with your VTT. His free works could remain free, and his Patreon-only tracks could be individual purchases or bundles. It wouldn't interrupt his current operations, he and DDB may both make some money off of it, and DDB would be able to offer a better, more polished product to players unable to jump through all the hoops it takes to get streaming music over Discord. (Though Avrae's API could be extended to enable Discord to control a VTT session's audio.)
Please consider it.
For starters, this isn't the feedback area of the forum.
Secondly, feedback for Maps VTT should go through the feedback tab in Maps itself, not the forums.
Thirdly, Maps doesn't have any kind of audio at all, so I'm not sure soundtracks are anywhere in sight, let alone outsourcing them.
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