Last Weekend for Pro

First, this is the last weekend to enjoy Pro for free. We have been overwhelmed with positive feedback and stories from people all over the world who have been enjoying using Astral for their online games.

While Astral will continue to remain free, June 1 will be the last day to enjoy all the benefits of Pro with no charge.

Until then, you can still purchase a year of Pro for only $70 (usually $99.99) by using the code PLAYATHOME (limited time only, act now!) Doing so will ensure continued access to increased file-size limits, asset storage, advanced game FX and Weather, and over 12,000+ assets to make your maps and characters with, plus new packs being added every month.

Help a Hurting Community

To us, tabletop roleplaying games are about overcoming adversity, conquering injustices, and coming together as a community. These games often give us an escape from the real world to let us solve challenges that often seem distant from our version of reality. They give us the power to elicit change.

Our community is strong and we have the power to make real world changes.

In short, Minnesota needs our help. If you can afford to donate, please consider the Minnesota Freedom Fund to help those who are hurting in a time of need. We acknowledge our privilege and fortune in this desperate time of adversity for others. We must make a stand on behalf of a community that has been historically disadvantaged and disenfranchised.

Donate to Minnesota Freedom Fund

If you donate to the fund above, be sure to tweet @AstralVTT with a picture of your receipt. Astral will be matching your donations (up to \$1,000 total) towards helping the communities of Minnesota.

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Changelog

Enhancements

More requests from the community were addressed this week:

• Embedded Rolls
  • You can now nest rolls (ex: !(1d20)) inside of math (ex: {x * 10}) to perform many advanced calculations based on the result of a die roll
  • For example, while multiplication and division are not available as roll modifiers, you can now multiply/divide after the roll occurs, such as rolling for gold at higher levels: {500 + !(1d10) * 25} gp
• Rolls and stats now parse properly when used in the title of an action
• Better insight into syntax/roll errors
  • Parsing errors in stats will now alert you on the sheet and show as ##ERROR##, instead of just a broken equation
  • Errors in stats or roll strings will cause the roll to read Error inline, with the cause of the error in the roll details tooltip
• Chat now shows a warning symbol in place of the chat menu when a chat-specific connection problem occurs
  • This should make it easier for players to recognize and report problems with their chat
• Legacy games that are incompatible with the new game architecture now have a message indicating why they can’t be entered

Fixed

Thank you to everyone who reported issues this week.

• Fixed an issue with a specific Cyberpunk marketplace pack. The images now work as expected across the site
• Characters once again use their nicknames in chat. No more “Orc Copy 23” betraying the army's size to your players
• Handout preview thumbnails were rendering upside-down 🙃
  • Existing preview images unfortunately can’t be fixed, but the handouts themselves are right-side up when opened
• Stats with text contents now render properly as text on the sheet and in the sidebar
• Dice could previously be rolled with both capital and lowercase letters (1d10, 2D8), but during the enhanced roll syntax release, a bug snuck in and made the capitalized dice rolls stop working
• Infinity RPG Character Sheet and NPC sheets have been updated to reflect multiple weapon ranges

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In Progress

We continue to work diligently on your requests and feedback; please let us know your thoughts on Discord or the forums.

Drawing Tools

We are continuing to iterate on drawing tools and have made some significant progress on the design and implementation on how these tools might work. We sincerely thank everyone for leaving their thoughts and feedback over the past few weeks to help us formulate the best path forward to deliver something that is truly useful, easy-to-use, and fun to play with.

We are excited to show the first iteration of these tools to you very soon.

📣 We're Listening

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.

That's all for now!

Thanks for reading and for being a dedicated Astralnaut! We look forward to bringing you more updates from the Astral Plane.

- Team Astral