The “So Much New” Content update!

We’ve got a lot of exciting news to share with you this week, so let’s get right to it.

Join Our Quest

Astral is expanding our talented team to help build the future of virtual tabletop roleplaying. Are you ready to join our party? We’re currently searching for a marketing specialist and software engineer.

Check out our careers page for more info.

Pathfinder Second Edition “Sundered Waves” now ready to play on Astral

Working in cooperation with DriveThruRPG and Paizo, we’ve made the latest adventure, Sundered Waves, available for purchase as an Astral module.

This adventure comes complete with maps, characters, and interactive puzzles, complete with automation. You can purchase this module for your Astral account on DrivethruRPG.

Thanks to community member LaMorte for consistently showing us how adventures run better on Astral!

Jules & Ben’s Animated Assets, now available for everyone

This is the JB2A free offering, packaged for your convenience for use on Astral. Contained in this pack are 150 high-quality animations for different spells and effects to enhance your game.

These assets are seriously amazing, and we can’t thank Jules and Ben enough for allowing us to provide this convenient access to these animations to the community.

As stated, this collection is free for all community members. Check them out in the JB2A Sample Animated Pack in game and in the editor.

If you appreciate these contributions and would like to support Jules and Ben, please check out their Patreon and consider becoming a patron.

Game-Changing Improvements in Beta

You’re walking through the woods at night and your phone is dead. But what is that figure beyond the trees?

Serious improvements to how we handle Dynamic Lighting and tokens are being tested by our Beta team. These changes include the ability to create rooftops and canopies to be displayed above the Dynamic Lighting layer, and some very cool visual enhancements when interacting with tokens:

This new approach to layers allows for unique visual effects to be applied in-game, such as simulating exploration within buildings:

We’re hard at work refining this feature and nailing down the last few issues. We could use your help in the meantime, so please consider joining our beta team!

Interested in becoming a Beta Tester? Email [email protected] for more information.

We hope you enjoyed Subscriber benefits!

We’re glad so many people came to try out Astral during our GM’s day promotion, and hope our community enjoyed the Subscriber benefits provided from GM’s day week through to this weekend.

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Changelog

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

Enhancements

• D&D 5E Template Character (Italian)
  • Thanks to marcoallegri for this translation
• Advanced Pathfinder 1E Template Character (Russian)
  • Thanks to Bargamut for this translation
• Index Card RPG Template Character
  • Thanks to Scooter Bricks for this template
• Coriolis Template Character
  • Thanks to Orbstar for this template
• D&D 4E PC/NPC/Trap Templates
  • Thanks to Steve for this template

Fixed

Thank you to everyone who reported issues this week.

• Several critical issues involving assets, characters and maps being orphaned have been resolved, and the files have been returned to their owners.
• Fixed issues with maps being saved properly to the vault
• Fixed some cases of supporter packs going missing
• Fixed several issues that could prevent community members from uploading assets
• Fixed vault characters displaying the wrong system
• If your character still displays the wrong system, reassign it’s system and the change will take effect immediately
• Audio Player now shows all controls properly in Firefox
• Players no longer can see all handouts regardless of permissions settings

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📣 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