Drag & Drop Monsters, Live Now!

It’s here! Drag and Drop Characters for Dungeons & Dragons (5e SRD) are ready for action, and just in time for Halloween too.

Setup encounters in seconds. Take on legendary dragons, battle spell-heavy Archmages, and delve through dark dungeons fighting wave after wave of Goblins. Best of all, this feature is free for all users of Astral!

Get a quick and exciting overview of this brand new feature below (along with a look at how you can integrate Astral with D&D Beyond courtesy of Beyond20.)

This is just the first step for Drag and Drop Characters. We can support virtually any of your favorite game systems. If you have a suggestion for what you would like to see next, please leave a suggestion or vote on the support forums.

New Assets This Week For Supporters

Yee-haw, partner! This week's pack features ambient sounds for your saloon fights and wild west showdowns! As always, you can also purchase this pack from the marketplace.

Also, stay tuned for a massive pack update in the coming weeks …

Not a paid supporter? Unlock incredible perks for you and your party today!

New on the Marketplace

Check out the latest releases this week. Over 30 new packs, including 2,300+ new assets went live this week on Astral! We would also like to formally welcome Mathias Berben, Miska's Maps and Two Brave Puffins Art to the marketplace!

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.

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Changelog

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

Enhancements

• Drag & Drop Monsters with D&D SRD Characters!
• Site speeds have significantly improved - Opening character sheets is faster, chat messages appear faster, all pages load faster
• Character sheet styles are more compact, cleaning up the look and allowing you to see more actions and attributes
• Chat styles are more compact, allowing for more text to appear on screen
• Editing a character sheet action will autofocus the inputs
• Removed audio from Beginner Tutorial game maps

Fixed

Thank you to everyone who reported issues this week.

• Chat should now properly update when a character’s name, portrait, etc. update
• Chat should no longer keep deleted characters around until refresh
• Chat should no longer show messages from new characters as coming from the player until refresh
• Enabling/disabling Dynamic Lighting/Fog of War will instantly update the map
• Dynamic Lighting FX can be applied without Fog of War enabled
• Map videos and localized audio always respect volume levels
• When editing a character sheet, the top editing bar no longer obscures the top of the sheet
• Large rotated map assets are no longer improperly culled
• Animated tokens no longer play sound
• Exporting a map will respect asset opacity
• Exiting edit mode with an asset selected will deselect the asset first
• Vault storage for Platinum users is properly displayed when creating new games and maps

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Future Updates, Coming Each Monday

For the past year, we have been adamant about delivering at least one update each week. Typically we have done this on a Friday. Starting next week, we are going to begin releasing new updates every Monday. This allows us to keep features in beta just a little bit longer so we can ensure the quality of each update is up to our community’s standards.

We still have a lot of work planned and we love hearing your feedback. As always, please let us know your thoughts and suggestions using the support forums.

📣 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