Gen Con Online Weekend

Have you participated in a game this week on Astral yet? If not, you're missing out on an opportunity to earn yourself a sweet new badge (above), only available through this weekend!

A huge "THANK YOU" to all that volunteered to host games and events this weekend! For those who have gone the extra mile, you have also been awarded an exclusive badge, only granted to a handful of users!

If you're participating in games this weekend, tag us on Twitter or post your adventures to the Astral subreddit to share the fun with others!

Need reinforcements during Gen Con?

Astral Staff will be available for support throughout Gen Con. Don’t be afraid to reach out directly to us via the Gen Con Online #astral-tabletop support channel or via our Discord server.

Public Invite Link

Speaking of Gen Con Online (and just in time too!), we released a brand new feature earlier this week that makes inviting players to your game as easy as sharing a link.

Skip the invites and share a link with any new players to let them instantly join the adventure.

As a GM, you are able to turn the public link on or off. After your players join, feel free to turn off the public link to prevent future users from joining.

New Marketplace Assets

As mentioned last week, we are beginning to onboard more talented artists and creators to the marketplace. Enjoy over 1,400+ assets this week alone!

New Pro Assets This Week

Pro subscribers received instant access to the new content below this week. You can also purchase these packs individually from the marketplace.

Stay tuned for more content updates!

Merchant Applications Open

Interested in becoming an Astral Marketplace Merchant? Please send an email to [email protected] with examples of your work, and we’ll pick up the conversation there.

Community Satisfaction Survey

Thank you to everyone who participated in our satisfaction survey last week!

We have gone through all of your replies and are overwhelmed with all the positive (and constructive!) remarks the community had. We are extremely eager to begin prioritizing the next steps and will keep you informed on what features and tools you can expect next.

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Changelog

We continue to address reported issues and requests. As always, we are very interested in your feedback.

Enhancements

• Public Invite Link
  • Skip sending invites and let new players join your game by using a link

Fixed

Thank you to everyone who reported issues this week.

• Resolved a permissions issue that could cause community members to "de-authenticate"
  • This was commonly reported as GMs losing access to games or not being able to move character tokens
• Character vision now correctly measures by radius, not diameter
  • You may need to cut your vision or aura distance in half if you were accounting for this manually
• Character movement no longer disrupts the ability to pan the map
• Hidden chat messages sent from players who were later removed from the game will no longer cause chat to fail
• Dynamic audio will now only play for players if their token is within the boundaries, not in sight of the boundaries.
• Audio assets no longer display a blank menu for additional vault preview options

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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 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!

Please take the time to read the “Welcome” and “How to Contribute” tabs as they contain important information about making suggestions and edits. You can find the project here:

Astral 5e SRD Spells

We have had a lot of feedback asking for this project to be expanded to other systems. We will expand to those projects upon completion of the 5E SRD spells project. Stay tuned for more news!

📣 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