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Phanary is a lightning-fast, free, online app for desktop and mobile that excels at finding and playing atmospheric music and sound effects for games like D&D and Pathfinder. Phanary is meant to be used in a Game Master's preparation and improvisation, and to be quick and streamlined enough to smoothly handle the party going somewhere unexpected.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptBSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Update July 2021

Phanary has been replaced by TurboBard (Live site). The code and README in this repository should be considered invalid and outdated.

Phanary

Phanary is a lightning-fast fantasy RPG audio solution. Running completely in-browser, it's a free app for desktop and mobile that excels at finding and playing atmospheric music and sound effects for games like D&D and Pathfinder. Phanary is meant to be used in a Game Master's preparation and improvisation, and to be quick and streamlined enough to smoothly handle the party going somewhere unexpected.

Features

With the focus on speed and usability, Phanary offers features like:

  • Atmospheres: intuitively group sounds and music into soundscapes, then fade between them with the click of a button
  • One-shots: manually fire a cinematic suspense tone after a plot twist, or set the sound of pouring ale to play every 15 to 30 seconds
  • Auto-play: with results that update as-you-type, assemble and play a convincing soundscape in seconds
  • Customization: change one-shots frequencies, tweak track volumes, rename atmospheres, and recreate specific settings from your campaign through rich sound layering

Contribute

For details about environment setup, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Support

Please don't hesitate to let us know if you have any issues at: phanarydev@gmail.com

License

Copyright (c) 2017 Ben Codrington

The project code is licensed under the 3-Clause BSD License.