Gen Con + Astral Need YOU

Planning on GMing for Gen Con Online? We would love to help you out!

GMs running games for Gen Con using Astral can apply for sponsorship benefits including a month of Pro on us, special badges, and more!

We also spoke with Modiphius who has offered to include additional sponsorship benefits. Those running Modiphius title games for Gen Con will receive $30 store credit per game, redeemable at the Modiphius store for running titles published by Modiphius (be sure to list the event Organization as "Modiphius")

To apply for Astral sponsorship benefits during Gen Con, be sure to use the form below:

Apply for Astral Gen Con benefits

🔍 Better Search

The first of many improvements to Astral’s asset search has been released this week. We have several optimizations planned for a better search experience but this initial boost will prioritize community member’s uploaded content as well as give more relevant search results for Astral provided content.

While this does not address all the issues reported by the community, this is a first step in many improvements to come!

Astral, now officially on Reddit!

Some news for the Redditors in the community! Astral is now on Reddit!

Join the Astral subreddit

Our goal is to promote positive and safe environment to talk about Astral TableTop; whether that's stories, artwork, or even improvements to Astral - we're eager to hear from you!

We are also actively looking for moderators for this subreddit. If this is you, please get in touch with us! Astral Founder, Tom, is currently moderating the subreddit but we would prefer if the community was involved to prevent bias and to encourage a more open environment.

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Changelog

Enhancements

More requests from the community were addressed this week:

• Knowledge base articles added to accommodate new feature locations and options
  • Dynamic Lighting Settings
  • Visual FX
  • Weather
• Knowledge base article revised to include new home screen
  • Home

Fixed

Thank you to everyone who reported issues this week.

• Search has been improved to give more weight to user-uploaded content, and searches for pro content should return more relevant results
• Fixed a false positive when detecting infinite recursion within stats that reference the same text stat multiple times
  • e.g. when comparing a stat to multiple values like compareText(MyStat,”test”) == 0 ? 2 : compareText(MyStat,”no”) ? 0 : 1) == 0

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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.

The 5e SRD Spells Project

A reminder to anyone interested in seeing the 5E SRD spells translated to Astral actions: We have a project going on behind-the-scenes and we need your help! We have big plans for ease-of-use and portability but we need the assistance of contributors like yourself to make this a reality. If you can spare the time to help contribute, we promise big improvements in the near future!

You can find the project here:

Astral 5e SRD Spells

Note: We have received a lot of feedback asking for this project to be expanded to other systems. We are considering this expansion after this project. Stay tuned!

📣 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