Happy Friday, everyone! We have a couple big updates for you this week.
You may have already noticed the new “Home” button on your sidebar. We are incredibly excited to release this feature for everyone and even more excited to implement some of the requests we’ve been hearing from you all.
On your new home screen you’ll find two (free) ready-to-play adventures for Pathfinder Second Edition and for Scarred Lands (OGL/D&D 5th Edition compatible) -- give them a try this weekend!
If you’ve been waiting on official content from your favorite publishers, we have some exciting news for you. In addition to the adventures released today, Astral is working to release official adventures for Star Trek, Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition, Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, Carbon 2185, and lots more.
If you’re a publisher and want to digitize your adventures for play on Astral, get in touch with us at [email protected].
In addition to the changes in roll syntax last week, we made additional improvements that let you “embed” dice rolls.
For example:
{500 + !(1d10) * 25}
- Calculate higher level D&D starting gold. Embedded rolls allows you to do complex math on roll results, like multiplication, division, modulus, and more.{!(1d20min8) + WisMod}
- The rogue archetype feature Ear for Deceit
allows you to treat insight checks with a roll of 7 or lower on the d20 as an 8. This is before the modifier, but the min
flag applies after the modifier. To add the modifier after the roll happens, roll the die as an embedded roll.{!(1d20 + {Modifier}) <= Stat ? 'Success!' : 'Epic fail! :('}
- Many systems require you to check the result of a roll against some threshold.Prior to this change, the above rolls would have thrown errors as it was not possible to make calculations on a roll before it was rolled. The above examples should now all work in beta!
We are actively monitoring and listening to your feedback, so if you’re a beta user, please let us know what you think or if you run into any issues.
All the amazing benefits of Pro are still free until the end of the
month. If you are enjoying Astral and are in a position to help us offset our
server costs at this time, then we are offering a 30% discount on annual
subscription plans purchased before the end of May. Use the promo code
PLAYATHOME
during checkout to get a year of Astral Pro (originally
$99.99) for just $70.
As always, thanks for being an Astralnaut. Game on!
More requests from the community were addressed this week:
Thank you to everyone who reported issues this week.
10d6rr=3rr=5
would not trigger a reroll if one of the extra dice rolled was a 3 or 5We continue to work diligently on your requests and feedback; please let us know your thoughts on Discord or the forums.
We’re continuing to prioritize and work on drawing tools. Thank you to everyone who has left their feedback on the forums or reached out on Discord over the past week!
We are still actively listening to your feedback and look forward to delivering the first iteration of drawing tools in the coming weeks.
Please leave your thoughts and comments in the threads above.
We are looking for a freelance video editor to help us redo our homepage video and possibly help us prioritize instructional videos for YouTube.
If you or someone you know is passionate about Astral and has video editing chops, please let us know in Discord or by emailing us at [email protected].
We're continuing to look at the forums for feature requests, support tickets, and Discord to hear what you all have to say. Please don't hesitate to reach out and voice your feedback. Our table always has an open seat, let us know what you think.
Thanks for reading and for being a dedicated Astralnaut! We look forward to bringing you more updates from the Astral Plane.
- Team Astral