Terms of Use & Licensing

The short version

Play it anywhere, free. Home games, live streams, recorded videos and podcasts, games you charge money for, conventions and shop events — all covered, with a free account or none at all. All we ask is a credit where you can reasonably give one: “Audio: DnD Soundboard (dndsoundboard.com)” in a description, on a slide, or in your show notes.

Adventurer removes the credit requirement and adds the live shared room and the full Spellbook. It is a subscription to capabilities — not a licence you have to buy in order to use what you already have.

What everyone may do

Play any scene's music, ambience and sound effects at your table, private or public.
Broadcast and record it: Twitch, YouTube, podcasts, actual-play productions, VOD.
Run monetised or paid games, professional DM-ing, ticketed events and in-store play.
Build custom scenes, upload your own audio, and share a scene link with your players.
Credit us where it is reasonable to do so. If a format genuinely has nowhere to put a credit, that is fine.

What nobody may do

Redistribute, resell, or re-upload the audio files themselves, or bundle them into another product, asset pack or soundboard.
Publish the audio as a standalone release — a music album, a sample pack, or an ambience track on a streaming service.
Use the audio to train a machine-learning model.
Scrape or bulk-download the library.

The line is simple: the sound may accompany your work, in any setting, paid or free. It may not become someone else's product.

Adventurer (attribution-free)

The same rights as above, with no credit requirement anywhere.
Host a live shared room your players join by link, with no account of their own.
The complete Spellbook — every spell and combat sound.

See pricing. Cancel any time from “Manage subscription” in the footer; the rights above continue to apply to you as a free user.

Boards you publish stay yours

Everything you publish stays yours. By publishing a board you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store it, play it to visitors, show it in the gallery and on your creator page, and let other people adopt it — for as long as it is published, and afterwards only to the extent needed so that people who already adopted it keep working copies. You can unpublish at any time; unpublishing removes the board from the gallery and stops new adoptions, and does not reach into libraries that already have it.

What we will not do with your uploads: we will not add them to the DnD Soundboard library, sell them, licence them to anyone else, or use them to train a machine-learning model. That last one is not boilerplate — it is the same commitment we ask of you below.

Pictures for your scenes: a picture you upload for one of your own scenes must be yours to use. It is shown to you in the app, it is not copied into rooms, boards or other people’s libraries, and we may remove one that breaks the rules below. Uploading a picture is free on every plan.

What you may not publish

Infringing audio, or audio you do not have the right to share. Sexual content. Content sexualising minors — zero tolerance, removed immediately and reported to the authorities. Hate or harassment. Illegal content. Impersonation of a person, a brand, or of us. Malware, phishing or spam.

And recordings of identifiable people made without their consent. On a tabletop soundboard the most likely version of this is a session recording with your players’ voices in it. Their voices are theirs; publishing a board containing them needs their agreement.

If we are hosting something that is yours

Email contact@dndsoundboard.com. A notice should identify the work, identify the material on our site precisely enough for us to find it (the board link is ideal), give us a way to contact you, and state that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised and that the information is accurate. On receipt we disable access expeditiously. If your board was removed and you believe that was wrong, reply to the removal email — that is a counter-notice, and we will tell you what happens next.

The in-app report button is not a formal notice. It goes to the same people and it is faster for most problems, but a rights claim is better served by the address above.

Repeat infringers

Three upheld copyright notices in twelve months removes your ability to publish. Boards already published are delisted, your handle is retired and not reissued, and people who already adopted your boards keep their copies. The rest of your account — your scenes, your uploads, your subscription — is untouched: not being able to publish and not being able to use the product are different things. Notices you successfully counter-notice do not count.

What we may do

We may take a board out of the gallery pending review, including automatically when enough people report it. Delisting is not deletion: the link keeps working and copies people already took are unaffected. We will tell you why, and you can reply to that email to appeal. Blocking a board — the one action that stops its page — is a decision a person makes, never an automatic one.

The referral program

Invite people with your own link or code. A referral counts when a friend you brought in has paid at least €14.97 for Adventurer and then 30 days have passed without a refund or a chargeback (see “When a referral counts”). When 3 of your referrals have counted, you get a year of Adventurer free, and every referral that counts after that earns you €10 of credit. The friends you bring in get an extra month free (see “What your friend gets”). Joining is free, from “Referral program” in your account menu, and joining means accepting this section (version 2026-10-01).

Who can take part

Anyone aged 18 or over with a DnD Soundboard account whose email address is verified and which is in good standing: not suspended, and not in breach of these terms. You confirm your age when you join. One membership per person.
To be paid out you also need a Stripe account in your own name that passes Stripe’s checks (see payouts).
You can leave at any time, from the referral program page. After you leave, your link records no new friends; friends who already signed up through it can still count, and your credit stays yours for a free year or a payout. You can join again later, with the same code, by accepting the version of this section that applies then.
We may open the program to some members before others, and pause it, as described under changes below.

Which sign-ups are yours

Your link is dndsoundboard.com/r/ followed by your code. The code works on its own too: your friend can type it when they sign up, or enter it on the payment page when they subscribe (“Add promotion code”).
Codes of your own. Besides the code we give you when you join, you can create up to 3 codes of your own at a time, and 10 in all (codes we turn down do not count): 4 to 20 letters and digits, starting with a letter. Each one works exactly like the code we give you: as a link, at sign-up and on the payment page, unless the payment page already has a code by that name. Characters that look alike count as one (0 and O; 1, I and L), so a code that differs from another only in those is already taken. A new code works at once, unless we are checking new codes by hand at the time; then it works once a person has approved it, and the referral program page shows which. We may stop new codes from being created; codes you already have keep working.
Names that are not yours. A code must not use the name of another person, creator, brand or product without their permission, and must not look like ours. We may turn such a code down or retire it, or move it to the member it names; friends it already brought in stay yours. You can retire a code of your own at any time, after which it works for nobody new. Apart from moving a code as described here, we never give your code, or one you retired, to anyone else while your account exists, and after it is deleted only once the code has been out of use for 13 months.
Remembering your invite. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the places that follow their cookie rules, and whenever we cannot tell where a visitor is, we ask first: the page offers to remember your invite, and only if your friend chooses “Remember invite” does their browser keep it, for 60 days. Elsewhere, when someone who is not signed in opens your link, their browser remembers it for 60 days. Either way they can make it forget the invite at any time.
First touch wins. The first member’s invite a visitor’s browser remembers is the one that counts; a link opened later does not replace it, and neither does a code typed at sign-up or entered on the payment page.
New accounts only, for links and codes typed at sign-up. Your friend must create a new account on dndsoundboard.com and verify their email address, within 60 days of the invite being remembered. An account that already existed when the link was opened is never a referral through it, however little it was used. A code typed at sign-up counts only if the account was created at most 30 minutes before the code is checked, which happens as soon as the email address is verified.
On the payment page. When your code is entered on the payment page, the account that subscribes becomes your referral, also if it existed before, as long as this is its first DnD Soundboard subscription, it is not already someone’s referral, and it is not your own. We read which code was used from our payment provider shortly after the subscription starts.
Every account can be referred once, ever, by one member.
We can only count what we can see. If your friend does not let their browser remember your invite, blocks cookies or changes device or browser, and does not type your code at sign-up or enter it on the payment page, nothing is recorded, and we cannot add it afterwards.
At sign-up we tell your friend that you will see that a friend signed up and whether it counts, never their name or email address, and they can choose not to credit anyone. A friend who enters your code on the payment page is told the same in our privacy notice.
Your link and your codes record new friends only while you are a member who has accepted the current version of this section. When we change it in a way you have to accept, your link and your codes pause until you do, and your codes stop working on the payment page; your dashboard, credit, rewards and payouts carry on meanwhile.

What your friend gets

A friend who comes in through your link or one of your codes gets one extra month free, on their first DnD Soundboard subscription:

On the monthly plan, a 60-day free trial instead of the usual 30 days. When your code is entered on the payment page instead, the usual 30-day trial and then a month free before their first payment.
On the yearly plan, €4.99 off the first year (€25 instead of €29.99), after the same 30-day trial as everyone else.
Only on their first DnD Soundboard subscription, once per account, and not combined with any other code or discount. It is not given on a referral we have voided.
You may tell people exactly this, and nothing more: no other discount, trial or bonus (see “What is not allowed”).
We may stop or change this offer only as described under “Changes, and if the program ends”. Friends who were already your referrals when it stops keep it, also if they subscribe later.

When a referral counts

A referral counts once your friend has paid at least €14.97 for Adventurer, net of refunds — 3 monthly payments of €4.99, or one yearly payment — and after that 30 days have passed without a refund or a chargeback (a payment dispute through their bank). Payments covered by a free code or a free year add nothing, and neither does your friend’s extra month: a friend on the monthly plan counts about a month later than one without it. The threshold exists so that a referral never costs less to fake than it earns.

Before a referral counts, a chargeback ends it for good. A refund does not, but the net amount has to reach €14.97 again.

Holds. We may hold a referral for review before it counts, for the reasons under “Reversals, holds and fraud” or while the program is in its launch review. We decide within 30 days of the day it would otherwise have counted. If we have not decided by then, it counts. If we decide it does not count, your dashboard shows that, and you can appeal to contact@dndsoundboard.com.

What you get

Your first 3 referrals that count earn one free Adventurer year, worth €29.99. This happens once per member.
Every referral that counts after that earns €10 of credit.
€29.99 of credit buys another free year, or credit can be paid out as described below. Credit does not expire while your account exists. It cannot be bought, topped up or transferred to anyone, and it is not money until it is paid out.
If you ask us to delete your account while you hold credit, we first offer to pay out your whole balance, with no minimum, or, if it covers one, to turn it into a free year. Credit you choose not to take is given up when the account is deleted.

Taking a free year

You choose how:

On the yearly plan, with a card. You check out the yearly plan and its first year costs nothing. It then renews at the yearly price (now €29.99) unless you cancel before the renewal date, which you can do at any time from “Manage subscription”.
Without a card. A year of Adventurer that ends by itself after 365 days. Nothing renews and nothing is charged. A second one starts when the first ends. Before it starts we ask which country you live in (see taxes).
If you already pay, the year goes onto your subscription. On the yearly plan your next renewal is free. On the monthly plan you move to the yearly plan with its first year free, only after you confirm the switch; it then renews at the yearly price unless you cancel.

Payouts

Credit is paid out only when you ask for it, from the referral program page. Nothing is ever paid out automatically, and credit you do not ask for stays in your balance.
Payouts go through Stripe Connect to a Stripe account in your own name. Stripe checks your identity and bank details under its own terms. If Stripe cannot verify you, or turns your account down, we cannot pay you out, but your credit still buys free years.
Payouts are possible to Stripe accounts in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.
The minimum payout is €30. We send payouts in euros, one at a time. If your bank account is in another currency, Stripe converts the amount at its own rate and may charge for that, so what reaches your bank can differ from the amount in euros.
Payouts are for members taking part as private individuals. If you take part as a business, tell us before you ask for a payout: we then pay by hand against your invoice (see taxes).
Payout checks. When you ask for a payout, the amount leaves your balance at once. We check a payout before we send it when we have not yet checked your payout account (normally your first payout), when it and your other payouts of the 30 days before it come to more than €250, or when one of your referrals is on hold or was voided for fraud in the 90 days before it. We decide within 7 days. If we have not decided by then, we send it, unless your membership is suspended by then. If we do not send it, we tell you why by email and the amount goes back to your balance.

Reversals, holds and fraud

For 120 days after a referral counts, a chargeback, or refunds that take your friend’s net payments below €14.97, reverse it. A reversed referral that earned credit takes its €10 back. If it was one of the 3 behind a free year you have already earned, the year stands and €10 comes out of your credit instead; if you had not earned the year yet, the referral simply stops counting. After those 120 days a referral is reversed only for fraud or a breach of these rules.
Your balance can go below zero this way, for example after the credit was paid out. Future credit settles it first. While it is below zero you cannot be paid out or turn credit into a year, and a free year you have earned but not yet taken waits until your balance is back at zero or above.
We hold referrals for review automatically when they look connected to you or to each other — for example the same payment card, email address or network. A hold is not an accusation: a person looks at it, within the time given under “When a referral counts”, and a cleared referral counts as normal.
Suspension. If we have concrete signs that a referral was obtained by fraud or by breaking these rules, we may suspend your membership while we look into it, for at most 60 days; after that the suspension ends by itself. While you are suspended your link records no new friends, and you cannot be paid out, take a free year or turn credit into one.
If we find fraud or a breach, we may void the referrals concerned, reverse the credit they earned, and ask for money paid out on them to be returned. For fraud, or a serious or repeated breach, we may also end your membership: your link stops for good and you cannot join again, but credit from referrals that were not voided stays yours for a free year or a payout.
If we end your membership we tell you why by email. You can write to contact@dndsoundboard.com to appeal any decision in this section.

What is not allowed

Referring yourself, or accounts you control: second accounts, several accounts for one person, or accounts made to collect referrals.
Bidding on our brand in ads: “dndsoundboard”, “DnD Soundboard” or misspellings of them as search or social ad keywords, or in ad copy, domain names or account names that could be taken for ours.
Spam: unsolicited messages, mass direct messages, or posting your link where the rules of the place forbid it.
Cookie stuffing: setting your link without a real click on it — hidden frames, pop-unders, automatic redirects, browser extensions.
Coupon and deal sites: posting your link or code on coupon, voucher or deal sites or in groups and lists that collect discount codes, or putting it in browser extensions or apps that add a code at someone else’s checkout by themselves.
Other people’s names: a code or account name that uses the name of another person, creator, brand or product without their permission, or a post that suggests one of them endorses you or us.
Incentivised sign-ups: paying, rewarding or sharing your reward with people to sign up or subscribe, or signing people up yourself.
Misleading claims: features or prices we do not offer; any discount, trial or bonus for your friend other than the one under “What your friend gets”, which is the only discount the program offers; a price other than the one on the pricing page when you post; or presenting yourself as us or as speaking for us.
Combining with another affiliate or partner program for the same customer: a customer is counted for one program, once.
Hiding that it is an ad: whenever you share your link or code publicly, say that it is an ad and that you earn from it (“The content kit” below says how). If we ask you to label or remove a post and it is still unlabelled 7 days later, we may void the referrals that came from it.

Breaking these rules can void the referrals concerned and reverse the credit they earned; a serious or repeated breach can end your membership.

Taxes

Rewards can be taxable income where you live: money paid out, a free year (at its price, now €29.99) and credit you use for one. We pay rewards in full and deduct no tax unless a law requires us to. Declaring them is your responsibility, and we cannot advise you on it. The referral program page shows what you received in each calendar year.

Every reward amount includes any VAT you may owe on your referrals. We treat you as a private individual unless you tell us you take part as a business, for example with a VAT or Chamber of Commerce number. If you do, tell us before you take a free year or ask for a payout; we then handle it by hand, against your invoice or, if we both agree, an invoice we issue in your name (self-billing).

When you take a free year we record which country you live in and how we know it (your billing or card country, or the country you tell us and the country of your connection), because the VAT on the year depends on it. Where a law requires us to report payments to a tax authority, we will, and we may then ask you for the details that report needs.

Changes, and if the program ends

We may change this section, or pause or end the program, with 30 days’ notice, by email and on this page, for one of these reasons: a change in the law or in what our payment provider requires; fraud or abuse we have seen; a change in Adventurer’s plans or prices; the program costing more than it brings in; or an improvement to the program. Only to stop fraud or to fix a fault may we pause new referrals at once, without that notice.

A change that is worse for you does not reach friends who signed up through your link before it takes effect: for their referrals, the amount they must pay, the waiting period and the credit per referral that applied when they signed up keep applying, unless the new ones are better for you. If you do not want to go on under a change, you can leave before it takes effect and keep your credit.

A pause lasts at most 90 days; a longer pause counts as the end of the program from the day that limit is reached, and if we start the program again after that, these terms apply again in full from the restart. If the program ends, what already counted is honoured: credit you hold can still be used for a free year or paid out, and a free year you have is kept. Friends who signed up through your link before the end can still count, under the rules that applied to them. For 12 months after the end the minimum payout does not apply, so you can have any positive balance paid out.

The content kit

Referral program members may use the content kit — the images, videos, carousel slides and captions on the “Content kit” tab of the referral program page — under this licence.

What you may do. Post the kit’s assets to promote dndsoundboard.com, on your own channels and in paid ads, under a royalty-free, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence. You may crop or resize them for a platform without removing or covering the ad label, and add subtitles, your own voice, your link or one of your codes; you may not change what they show.
What you may not do. Sell, sublicense or redistribute the assets, alone or as a pack. Take the audio or footage out of them for other work. Use them to promote any other product, service or site. Edit them to show screens, features, prices or offers we do not have. Suggest that we, or anyone shown in them, endorse you beyond the referral relationship. Use them to train a machine-learning model.
Say that it is an ad. Every post, Story frame, video and livestream that uses the kit or your link must say first, in the language of the post, that it is an ad for DnD Soundboard and that you earn from it. Keep the caption’s first line (translate it if you translate the caption) and the ad label in the videos, and switch on the platform’s paid-partnership or branded-content setting where your account offers it. During a livestream, say it again from time to time. “Affiliate link” on its own is not enough. Follow the rules of the country you post to, for example the Reclamecode Social Media in the Netherlands. If a post is not labelled, we may ask you to fix or remove it, and referrals from a post still unlabelled 7 days after we asked may be voided.
AI footage. For footage the kit marks as AI-generated, switch on the platform’s AI label where the platform asks for it; we recommend it for all such footage. For a French audience, add “Images virtuelles” to the assets the kit marks as showing AI-generated people.
Trademarks. Dungeons & Dragons and D&D are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast. DnD Soundboard is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Do not add their logos, artwork or product names to the assets, or suggest a connection.
Withdrawn assets. We may withdraw an asset at any time, for example when a rights holder objects or the product changes. Do not use a withdrawn asset in new posts. Posts already published may stay up unless we ask you to take one down for a legal reason.
Your friend’s extra month. The captions say what your friend gets only while the program offers it. If it stops (see “What your friend gets”), do not promise it in new posts.
When it ends. The licence ends with your membership of the program, or when you break it. After that, publish no new posts with the kit. Posts you published before it ended may stay up unless we ask you to take one down for a legal reason.
Changes. We change this licence only with the notice, and for the reasons, given for the referral program under “Changes, and if the program ends”.

Who we are

These terms are an agreement between you and DnD Soundboard (dndsoundboard.com):

Name: DnD Soundboard
Chamber of Commerce (KvK) number: 84956526
VAT number: NL863439391B01
Email: contact@dndsoundboard.com

The audio remains the property of DnD Soundboard and its licensors; your licence to use it is non-exclusive and revocable if these terms are breached. Nothing here grants rights to any third-party trademark — Dungeons & Dragons is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast, and this site is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. We may update these terms; continued use means acceptance, and we will not retroactively narrow the rights granted above for work you have already published. That does not apply to the referral program or the content kit: they change only with the notice their own sections promise.