Sounds & licensing

Where the library comes from and what you may do with it.

Play Thaumaturgy at your table, record your sessions, stream them. Everything you play through the app — an environment, a board, the music under a scene — is yours to use in that recording or that stream, with no attribution line to remember, no non-commercial limit, and nothing to ask us for. It is worth saying plainly, because plenty of audio libraries do not allow it. Reusing a clip outside Thaumaturgy is a separate question, and the rest of this page is about that.

What you may not do is take the library itself. Extracting the audio files to redistribute, package, resell or build another sound library out of them is not allowed, whatever the underlying recordings are licensed as — the Terms say it in those words. Playing a sound here, in your game, on your stream: yes. Lifting the files out: no.

The recordings are public domain (CC0), and they are not ours. Reuse those for anything, no credit needed, not even ours. Nothing in Thaumaturgy requires attribution. Every sound’s source is listed on this page; if you want a clip for your own project, take it from its source under that license rather than out of the app.

The sounds and music made for Thaumaturgy are ours. A few effects were made for the app rather than recorded — generated, then chosen by ear — and are listed below as Generated for Thaumaturgy; play them here freely, but they are not offered for reuse elsewhere. The 250 music tracks are ours too, and the same applies: play them here, including in a session you record or stream, but they are not offered for reuse elsewhere either.

Sources

• Kenney.nl — the core one-shot pads (combat, doors, books, magic, signals). CC0.
• Freesound.org — cave, dungeon, prison, outdoor and weather recordings by corkob, Electroviolence, rucisko, bassimat, Kinoton, pointlessperson1, Flamiffer and others. All CC0.
• Made for Thaumaturgy — a small number of effects we generated ourselves where no suitable public-domain recording existed: some bells, a few doors, footsteps on particular surfaces. Listed below.

Clips are loudness-normalized, trimmed, and encoded as Ogg Vorbis. Beds are crossfaded into seamless loops.

Clips we made ourselves

794 clips were made for Thaumaturgy rather than recorded, where no suitable public-domain recording existed. They carry no outside credit because there is no outside author; they are not offered for reuse elsewhere.

The world library

The built-in environments outside the dungeon — water, sea, mountains, ice, desert, lava, the planes, forest, camp, town, castle, the underdark and weather — are built from CC0 recordings on Freesound. Every one is listed here with its recordist; if you think a clip doesn't belong, say so through the feedback form.

Your own tracks

The Your own sounds section at the bottom of the Play screen takes any MP3, OGG, WAV or FLAC from your device. Short ones can go on a board or into an environment layer; longer ones play as a background track. You get 250 MB.

Signed out, they stay in this browser and nothing is sent to us. Signed in, a copy is kept in your account so they reach your other devices — private, not listed anywhere, and fetchable by nobody but you. While a broadcast is live, the people holding your code hear whatever you play, your own sounds included; a sound you never play is never sent to anyone, and when the broadcast ends there is no way for anybody to fetch the file again. The privacy page says it in full.

Requests

Missing a sound or a whole environment? The library grows by request — send a sound request and say what scene you're trying to build.

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Updated 7 November 2026