Hello Questers!

The Wizard steps over the bodies of your barbarian friend, your druid companion and… well who knows where the rogue is… The Wizard leans over his cauldron, the bubbling purple liquid illuminates the stubble on his bruised jaw. The blood flowing from a scalp wound he says, “Your voice for your friends… The choice seems obvious to me, but then again, I care about my friends”. What do you do?

Work Hard, Play Hard - around working on an importer, improvements to the drawing tools and a secret project, we squeezed in an overnight work retreat. Just outside of Hella, Iceland, we had a successful murder mystery using Quest Portal (by successful I mean I figured out the murderer) and visited old manmade caves. It was a Hella of a week.

I’ll see myself out.

In other news, we published Thorsteinn Mar’s guide on Becoming A Game Master as well as adding Dungeon Lords to the library!

Improvements

• [Article] https://www.questportal.com/blog/becoming-a-game-master
• [Library] Dungeon Lords - https://app.questportal.com/library/dungeonlordsrefdoc

Hello Questers

The falling snow is a sharp contract to the darkness creeping in. The cold bites through every crack in the building and only the crackling of the fireplace is of any comfort. There is a knock at the door. Once. Twice. Three times. What do you do?

It has been a little while since we last updated you on all things Quest Portal - partly because of vacation, and partly because of sickness. But despite my absence, the team has been absolutely blowing it out of the water when it comes to delivering! To keep it short and sweet, here’s a round up of what the team have been up to!

Avatar Generation Updated

We recently moved our image generator to use Stable Diffusion 3 as a basis. This has vastly improved the quality and reliability of the images produced - so much so, that the bulk approach of always generating 6 potentially glitchy images, can now be slimmed down to a single awesome creation. We even added in a few new labels and backgrounds to the Avatar Generator while we were updating.

Awesome Cinematic!

If you haven’t checked this out, go do it! It’s cinematic as all hell and released on Youtube.

The Above and Below: Real Tales of the Wyrd

The folks over at Above and Below (www.realwyrd.com) very recently launched their anticipated System Reference Document - and they released it right here on Quest Portal!

You can find this great system as library book here.

And the accompanying Character Sheet Template here.

Roll for Sandwich

Adventures in Aardia - aka Roll for Sandwich came to our Reykjavík HQ for a meet and greet. Check out Roll for Sandwich on TikTok to see his Icelandic adventures.

Drawing Tools

You’ve been asking for it (I’ve been asking too!) for drawing tools and it’s here! Everyone can add drawings and shapes to any map, canvas or image to your heart’s content. Let us know what you think, and might I suggest refreshing either the browser or reinstall the mobile app if you can’t see them.

And talking of mobile app… Map Tools on the Mobile Apps

You can press the Move Tool icon next to the Headphones when in a session to access Move, Selection, Measure and … Drawing tools!

Articles and Newsletters

November’s newsletter went out, Why Pathfinder Continues to be the go-to Fantasy TTRPG by Thorsteinn Mar and my first article/editorial VTT Mobile Apps are Empowering Gamers to Game.

Bug Fixes

So many, but as a highlight, fixed dice string calculating wrong with multiple +/- references.

Improvements:

• [Improvement] AI Avatars changed to work from Stable Diffusion 3. Additional options added. Single generation instead of a half dozen.
• [Improvement] Bug fix related to dice string
• [Feature] Drawing Tools added
• [Mobile] Session Tools added
• [Content] Above and Below: Real Tales of the Wyrd SRD
• [Content] Above and Below: Real Tales of the Wyrd Character Sheet Template
• [Social] Cinematic released to Youtube
• [Social] Hosted Adventures in Aarida meet and greet
• [Article] Why Pathfinder Continues to be the go-to Fantasy TTRPG by Thorsteinn Mar
• [Article] VTT Mobile Apps are Empowering Gamers to Game
• [Article] November Newsletter

Hello Questers!

The night club is busy. Lights flashing, music pulsing, bodies moving to the siren’s song. The man sitting in the booth is mysterious as he, like you, is not listening to the Siren spin the decks. He straightens his tie, ruffles his wings and stands up to greet you. What do you do?

Cutting straight to it: Modifiers and Collections are here! Well, in Beta at least!

You might have noticed that we stealth launched two more widgets last week: Modifiers and Collections.

Modifiers give you the ability to reference other numbers within Roll Buttons (and other Modifiers even) that might change from time to time. Like with a level up for example.

Collections is a great way to organize stats and roll buttons within a purpose made table. We’ve been using them in our playtesting games for ability tables and attack rolls!

You can access both of these through the Floating Menu in Notes and Universal Character Sheets, or by typing /m for Modifier and /c for Collections.

We’re releasing them in their Beta/Testing state, at least for now, for two reasons:

1. We would love to hear your feedback on Modifiers and Collections. What we could improve, How you might upgrade the existing Templates, Use Cases… We’re improving them this week (and will be for a little bit) and your feedback is really appreciated and crucial to making something amazing.
2. We’re excited about what we’ve done and want to start updating the existing Templates.

You can leave us feedback in the usual places:
* Chat with Us inside the web app
* emailing support@questportal.com
* or by using the Discord thread

In other news, last week and this week is a return to Bug Hunt Part Two, where the Dev team have been fixing and hardening the web and mobile app. Also, next week there won’t be an update as I am on vacation for a week! But I’ll be back the following week with hopefully great news on Modifier and Collections updates.

Improvements:

• [Feature] Modifiers Widget (Beta)
• [Feature] Collections Widget (Beta)
• [Content] Wolf, Elephant, Trolls, Goliath and Insectoids added the Avatar pre-gens
• So. Many. Bugs. Squashed.

Hello Questers!

The fog swirls around your feet as you pound the cobblestone streets. It quickly rises and you can feel its cold wet tendrils clawing at your skirts and trousers. Your companion races ahead, cocking their gun, ready for the threat in the fog. A voice from above shouts. Looking up, you see the silhouette of a person against the moon, waving their hands in irregular shapes and the fog clears. A door in the clearing opens. “Inside, now!” What do you do?

POLYGON FOG TOOL! No longer are we squares, but we’re polygons now! Create, and clear, fog for your players in shapes other than a square with our new polygon fog tool. But don’t worry, the square tool still exists. Go check out Gummi’s fantastic tutorial video here: https://youtu.be/nntdEXP64H4

We also got great additions to the library this week. DH Cross’ Plyphyny System added the Eldritch 2nd Edition Free Handbook (Players Handbook), whilst Samuel C. Oliveira added both the English and Portuguese versions of Action Dice RPG!

Keep an eye out on www.questportal.com/blog on Wednesday for returning writer Thorsteinn on Creating Characters in D&D. As always, Thorsteinn has a great way of taking you on a journey, as he takes you through the art of crafting a fantastic character to play.

In other news, our Chat with Us support feature is going through some upgrades. We’re adding the documentation for Quest Portal to the feature so that you’re more easily able to find answers to your questions. In addition, many of you know that our entire support team are in Iceland, which means we’re not always awake when you need help. For that, we added Fin (I’m sad we didn’t call him Lord Support Alot), an AI Agent that should be able to help when we’re asleep. But never fear, Gummi, Gunnar and I are still your support team when we’re awake and Agent Fin needs a human touch.

And that’s it this week Questers. Have fun with the new fog of war update and enjoy reading the new library content!

Improvements:

• Feature: Polygon Fog Tool (Video here)
• Library: Eldritch 2nd Edition Free Handbook
• Library: Action Dice (Português & English)
• Character Sheet Templates:
  • Plyphyny
  • Action Dice Português
  • Action Dice English
• Support: Chat with Us on the web added AI Agent Fin for 24/7 support.
• Support: Chat with Us on the web now has access to Quest Portal Documentation

Hello Questers!

You awake in an abandoned school. You must have been sicker than you thought as your watch tells you were unconscious for a couple of days. Your pack is here, your food, your water, your weapons... Better get moving, it’s not safe to be still for so long. As you pack up your things munching on a ration bar and head into the corridor, you hear the sound of people in the courtyard to your left, and a rhythmic hum coming from the empty classrooms to your right. What do you do?

Despite my absence last week, the team has been crushing it with progress. Some we can talk about, some we’re fit to bursting to talk about and some we have released into the world already!

Clear Chat. In an update that is today days old, if you are the owner of a campaign, you can completely clear the chat. Everything - from rolls to chat to announcements - completely cleared. As the campaign owner, open the chat drawer, look to the top and you’ll see an ellipsis (...). Click that to be offered Clear chat.

And keeping on top of features, Clear chat is also available on mobile too. Speaking of the mobile app, they have had a lot of polish and minor fixes this week as well, so should be running a little more smoothly. Also, you can now save Avatars on the mobile app (a few Avatar related bugs have been squashed too)And speaking of Avatars, you might notice a few more options in the pre-generated selection, including lions and plant people.

I thought I was nailing segways this week, until I remembered that Gummi also wrote this awesome How to run games with minimal prep article that is filled with great advice and pointers on preparing when you might have left it a little late.

Mobile Improvements:

• Clear Chat added
• Save Avatars on Mobile
• Mobile core updates

Improvements:

• Clear chat added
• Various Avatar bugs and issues fixed
• Broken template links fixed
• Content: Additional premade Avatars

Hello Questers!

Spreadsheets were everywhere, coffee was nowhere to be found, and the meeting you needed to be in right now was somewhere. Everything seemed to be in your way preventing you from … something… The dream you had was strange, and as you donned your holy armor and prepared to Bless your companions, you were happy it was just a dream.

Plenty of content added this week, including the hugely popular (and huge!) Mythcraft SRD (with Character Sheet Template, of course!) Mythcraft, which was kickstarted in just a few hours, is a gorgeous world to experience and a fun rpg system to play. Go check it out: https://mythcraftrpg.com/about/

We didn’t stop with just adding Mythcraft this week, we also added more assets and scenes, as well as adding some polish to the mobile experience. Speaking of, if you have any feedback you’d like to share about mobile, we’d love to hear it. Just leave us a comment in #feedback on our Discord, or email us support@questportal.com

Also, did you know that you can share campaign notes? If you have a cool piece of lore you wrote or a format for ancestry trees you want to share or someone in your campaign has forgotten what a hand out is telling you, you can share the specific note by clicking the ellipsis on the note, and clicking share to Facebook, share to Reddit or copy link.

This is an example note (which isn’t editable in this view - a cool, non editable handout method maybe?) that I’d be able to share with my players.

Mobile Improvements:

• Remove Player option added
• Lots of small bug fixes and polish
• Library Link is now active! That's all the Pro features now available to mobile!

Improvements:

• More Maps and Music added to our asset library including:
  • Maps from Lone Mapper
  • Music from Tabletop audio
• More Sci Fi premade scenes
• Mythcraft SRD added to the Library! Also the Featured Template Character Sheet.
• Old School Essentials: Typo in 1s and 20s fixed

Hello Questers!

“You approach the royal box of the theater. The sense of foreboding rises as you see the red curtains cutting you off from the inhabitants, a message for the Queen’s brother clutched in your hands. You reach to pull the curtain aside…” One sec, let me get my tokens, maps and music ready!

We have a lot of improvements for you this week so I will keep it brief. We’ve added more maps and music to assets and scenes, and big update, the mobile experience continues to catch up with the web with Avatar Generators for Pro users!

Also, big thanks to Bogart from our Discord for suggesting improvements to Mirehaven’s Curse. We improved the NPCs with skills and roll buttons, and we have pre-made PCs - also with roll buttons.

Mobile Improvements:

• Set and view template of a campaign.
• Share Templates.
• Removed duplicate template button on own template.
• Pro: Generate Avatars!

Improvements:

• Mirehaven’s Curse now has pre-made adventurers, with roll buttons, including NPCs!
• Updated Level Up 5e: Advanced character sheet template with roll buttons.
• Fix: Removed Leave Campaign option from the Session Top bar menu for Players.
• Fix: Removed Add character dialog when a template is set for a campaign.
• Additional assets in the Library!
• • Maps from Dyson Logos
  • Maps from FragMaps
  • Maps from Light in Darkness Gaming
  • Maps from Lone Mapper
  • Maps from 2-Minute Tabletop
  • Music from Blighthouse Studio
  • Music from Hideous Hiss
  • Music from Michael Ghelfi

Hello Questers!

The Pirate King sits on his throne of golden despair, an elixir of bubbling green in his glass mug. In a sad, broken voice he says. “I did not expect you, sister”. He drinks the elixir to the last drop. “I am saddened that it must come to this.” What do you do?

Behind the developers screen, lots of familiar faces are returning to the office after parental leave. It’s great seeing old friends filtering back into the office, and great for Quest Portal because our developers are coming back!

We added a some new content this week: new SRD, new featured template and updated our documentation library.

Otherwise, business as usual as we create and test Modifiers, and update the Mobile App.

Go check out Mirehaven’s Curse (5e) as a ready to play campaign, or get ahead of the October scary season with The Haunting (Call of Cthulhu). Both ready to play with gorgeous maps, handsouts and awesome storylines!

Improvements:

• Library: Mobile Features added to Quest Portal library book
• 13th Age SRD added to the Library!
• Dreams and Machines Character Sheet Template

Hello Questers!

What does support mean to you?

We have been busy over the last week ensuring that our support for systems is top notch. With the completion of the Drekar & Dýflilssur Character Sheet Template, all of our SRDs in Library have a Featured Character Sheet Template linked. For a full list, head to the Quest Portal Library to see our supported systems.

If you decide to claim the free scenario The Haunting, you'll notice a few updates there too! We updated a couple of handout and scene images, as well as adding plain text to all the handouts.

Last week, we also added a keyboard shortcut for muting and unmuting your microphone in Voice Chat! Cmd+Shift+M or Ctrl+Shift+M will toggle your microphone on and off.And of course, our September Newsletter rounding up all of our news, tips and community shoutouts released! You can find it here if you missed it.

But back to the starting question. What does System Support look like to you? Is it SRDs? Is it character sheets? Is it scenes and tokens? Perhaps dice and cards? We’d love to know what you think of when we say “we support a system”. Please feel free to leave us a message in our Discord “Suggestions” channel, or email us hi@questportal.com

Improvements:

• Toggle Mute Microphone in Voice Chat using Cmd+Shift+M or Ctrl+Shift+M
• September Newsletter released
• Character Sheet for Drekar & Dýflissur
• All SRDs now have Character Sheet Templates
• The Haunting: Images updated and Plain Text added to Handouts

Last week a bold pronouncement: “I’ll die a thousand deaths if it isn’t out by next week.” No Devs were harmed in the making of this week’s update.

Mobile version 3 is finally here!!! That’s right, the mobile app now has Templates available to create from, as well as being able to create your own Character Sheet Template there on your Quest Portal VTT mobile app.

But WAIT THERE’S MORE - we bring you Avatars! Not only can you choose an avatar for your templates, but you can also choose one for your characters too. You can select from our pre-mades or upload your own image instead.

Plus some nice bug fixes and general updates to make the experience on mobile much smoother. If you haven't tried our apps yet, search Quest Portal VTT in either the Apple or Play store.

Hopefully for those of you who had a game at the weekend, and you were using the app, you had fun with the new features. We’d love to hear your feedback and comments on the updates.

Last week was pretty big content wise too - with Featured Character Sheet Templates and a whole corebook added to our library. There was a large amount of Templates we managed to complete this week in our effort to make sure we better support the library SRDs that we have.

As always, we would love feedback on these, and if you want to submit your Template to be featured and available for everyone, then send us an email to support@questportal.com!

And finally, a new Core Rulebook. We added Liberty: After roleplaying system to our Library. The entire Rulebook. The whole thing. The whole handbook: free for everyone. Everything you need to run your own game in this sci-fi setting that became the hugely popular Liberty: Vigilance actual play podcast.

Last week was incredibly busy. Now the team will take a 5 minute self care nap, before getting back to it! The dice on our VTT must roll!!!

Improvements:

• Mobile Feature: Templates added
• Mobile Feature: Avatar selection and upload added
• Liberty: After Handbook added to the Library! (also find their Template Character Sheet)
• Character Sheet Pendragon 6e
• Character Sheet Cairn 2e
• Character Sheet D&D 3.5
• Character Sheet Basic Roleplaying System
• Character Sheet Black Flag
• Character Sheet Level up: 5e
• Character Sheet Paragon
• Character Sheet Old School Essentials
• Character Sheet Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying
• Character Sheet Dragonbane
• Character Sheet Lancer

Hello Questers!

The team leans over a round table covered in maps, journals and half crumpled Postit Notes. Debates are held as data is interpreted, and all conversations lead to a final decision that will hold glory for all - yes, we will have a 2nd cup of coffee.

Last week was fairly important for the team as we sat down to firm up the roadmap for the rest of the year. It essentially boiled down to what works for GMs and Players, and how do we deliver the best experience?

To be less cryptic and narratory - We’re finishing off the Modifier and Collections Widgets (coming in the next couple of weeks) before moving onto our next big project. This includes major upgrades for tokens, character sheets, campaign management (more folders bay-be!), music player upgrades… and more.

Talking about finishing stuff off - keep an eye on your iOS and Android apps this week. There is a major update coming this week. To quote to the dev “I’ll die a thousand deaths if it isn’t out by next week”.

If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, Thorsteinn Mar wrote a great article on Dragonlance Classics - a classic D&D module that really needs to be played and seen by more folks. Go check it out here!

Mobile Improvement

Library window now displays as intended.

Hello Questers!

The designers and developers sit at their computers as plants grow quietly by the window. The lights of the screen illuminate their faces as music hums from ear buds - they’re focused on the task at hand as the Community team sneakily prints out more character sheets…

Character Sheet Templates have truly been consuming our small team over the past couple of weeks - we’re working on a few projects to further improve Templates, and also to create more featured templates for more systems, and ensuring everything is up to date in our documentation source of truth for shipped projects: the Quest Portal Library.

Currently we’re working on a Modifier Widget - allowing us to reference other numbers while customizing the formula in a roll button. It’s coming and it’s sexy.

For any rpg system in our Library that has a Character Sheet Template, we have also added a link within the Library book as another easy way to find the sheets you’re looking for.

We’ve also go ahead and created a Template for Pendragon 6e.

But that’s not all! We haven’t forgotten app users as we’re also working incredibly hard on the mobile apps to bring Templates to our devices. As usual, we will not promise arbitrary deadlines, but Soon(™)!

Improvements:

• Updated publisher data of our published SRDs
• Delta Green Template tables display information better
• Mobile App: Links to Library no longer send you to the web app
• Character Sheet Template for Pendragon 6e
• Quest Portal Library: Added Account Management

Hello Questers!

There’s a strange hush over the office as today is a national day off for Icelanders - which means more time today to prepare my next home game session!

A lot of things happened last week and well into the weekend! Gunnar and Gummi went to GenCon, and sent back lots of lovely pictures and the knowledge that they might need another suitcase for all the shopping! Hopefully those of you who managed to find and meet them had a blast - and a set of shiny dice!

We also launched an early access Affiliate Program for content creators. If this sounds like you, please feel free to read through our webpage for more details and sign up using the form on the page - https://www.questportal.com/affiliate

And with the first of the month comes the newsletter! We talk about connections, the lovely Well Watch Games and throw in some Tips and Tricks for using notes! https://www.questportal.com/blog/august2024-newsletter

Finally a Quest for you, should you choose to accept it. Do you want your template to be featured for everyone to see in the Featured Tab of Templates? Especially for indie systems? Email Support@questportal.com or DM VollyHem on Discord so we can talk!

Improvements:

• Character Sheet Template for 13th Age
• Character Sheet Template for Pathfinder 1e
• Character Sheet Template for Pathfinder 2e
• Character Sheet Template for Everyday Heroes
• Tables are further polished and more responsive

Happy Gaming!

Hello Questers!

It’s a hot one this week for many of us in Europe - so remember to hydrate as you explore the dungeons, caves and castles of life.

We’re headed off to Gen Con this week! You can meet Gunnar and Gummi, our CEO and CFO/COO respectively, walking around Gen Con. Representing the good word of Quest Portal. If you’re in the area, see if you can spot them and get some sweet, sweet Quest Portal Dice!

As a quick, but firm reminder, as a Discord space for Quest Portal VTT, that using our "looking for" channels for other VTT's is generally frowned upon. We’re a small startup getting our foot in the door, so if you’re inclined, we very much appreciate any feedback on creating a platform that works for you.

A little light this week on updates as we focus on mobile improvements AND getting a Modifiers widget ready. My crystal ball is cracked but it’s Soon (™). Sssshhhh you didn’t hear that from me

Improvements:

• New: 13th Age Featured Character Sheet Template
• Featured Character Sheet Templates are now added to the relevant Library books - https://app.questportal.com/library/quest-portal/documentation/QH_fKFbD5a

Happy Adventuring!

Hello Questers!

It’s been a small break for some of us, but we’re back at it!

Despite running a bit of a skeleton crew over the last couple of weeks, the crew here at Quest Portal have been working hard; fixing bugs, adding libraries and preparing for our next big work push, which I might be able to talk about Soon(™).

But what I can tell you, is a widget for Modifiers is being worked on. Oh yes, it’s coming.

In the meantime, let me distract you from that by letting you know what I’m working on over the next few weeks - Documentation (boring!) and Tutorial videos (that’s better!). Head over to our Discord and let me know what your most wanted tutorial video is, or request a guide on how to use Quest Portal to do a thing.

Also a MASSIVE shout out to everyone who is sharing their Character Sheet Templates on the Discord. There are some great sheets being worked on including Tales from the Loop and World of Darkness.

Since we last spoke, we also added a few more books to the Library, fixed a few mobile issues and update the Points Widget - now when you go over the amount, the bar turns blue!

Improvements:

• Plyphyny Handbook added to the Library! (also find their Template Character Sheet)
• Trophy SRD added to the Library! (also find their Template Character Sheet)
• Mobile app - Steppers for San, HP and Luck added on Enhanced Call of Cthulhu Character Sheet.
• Polishing - Table responsiveness & button visual consistency on mobile

Happy Gaming!

Hello Questers!

A huge sigh of relief resounds across the office as Character Sheet Templates are released before we take a well-deserved break.

Gummi posted an awesome YouTube announcement and blog post about our new Character Sheet Templates. We can now share our beautiful character sheets with other GMs, our players and the community, as well as setting a campaign to a particular template, ensuring everyone can enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Feel free to head over to our Discord if you have a template to share or to request one for your favorite TTRPG.

Phew. Now that we have Templates, many of us here at the office are taking a well-deserved summer vacation. That means we might be quiet on the update and presence on the Discord front, but general support should be unaffected. We'll always have some devs and support on duty throught the summer so play away and have fun! 🫡

What shall we be doing on this vacat…. HEY LOOK LIBRARY! We added a couple more SRDs into the Library this week too!

• 2d20 SRD added to the Library
• Pathfinder 1e added to the Library
• Year Zero Engine added to the Library
• Mobile - Fixed an issue where you had to click once to close the keyboard and again to pick a system in the new system selector.

Happy Gaming!

PS. We also made an awesome website for our Character Sheets!

Hello Questers!

Our Playtest of Templates on Discord was fantastic and we’re so close to launching.

Thank you to everyone who took part in our Playtest for Character Sheet Templates. There was some stellar feedback that we implemented where we could. Our starter templates are going to be so much better thanks to their input. Delta Green, RuneQuest, D&D 5e… to name but a few!

Behind the scenes, the devs and designers have been hard at working getting everything ship shape for the Templates launch. So much so, that Soon(™) should be known as is THIS WEEK!!! Keep an eye out on Discord for announcement of the soft launch!

We also got a chance to squash a bug or two: notably Session Stories were not generating for some folks. That’s now fixed and highlights of your games should generate as usual.

Today also marks the beginning of our monthly newsletter. We aim to cover the past month’s changelogs, helpful hints for getting the most out of Quest Portal and shed a light on our community members.

Improvements:

• Mobile: Fixed issue where notes were not restored properly from trash.
• Session Stories fixed.
• Monthly Newsletter started.

Pro Hint: If you need to undo something you can either Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z on the web or shake your phone.

Happy Gaming!

Hello Questers!

Discord gets a glow up as amazing playtesters improve our Alpha Phase testing of Character Templates.

After a little reorganization of Discord, which included bringing on two awesome Moderators, we could finally bring forth something we have been waiting to do for a long time. Playtesters!

The first round of playtesting our Character Templates has been going extremely well, and great progress is being made thanks to their feedback. This includes a Delta Green template and a D&D 5e template.

There’s still time to join in on the playtesting phase of Templates by messaging Hem/Volly on Discord or by emailing us that you’re interested.

On the platform, we have been hard at work squashing bugs and getting ready for Templates Phase 2! Stayed tuned.

Improvements:

• GM rolls don’t default to the first character in the NPC character sheet.
• Claimable Scenarios image updated to include the adventure Mirehaven’s Curse.
• Quest Portal Library includes more FAQ answers

Happy Gaming!

Hello Questers!

Hush descends across the office, and only the sound of tapping keyboards, clicking of the mouse buttons and the mutterings of “nearly there” serve to indicate the progress of a new feature being created.

It’s a quiet one this week. A couple of small bug fixes here and there, but mostly, we’ve been hard at work on our new feature, which we should be able to share over the next couple of weeks.

Instead of letting the changelog go without something cool to learn about Quest Portal, did you know that we have an entry on the Quest Portal Library all about Notes and a section all about Formatting Shortcuts. Between these two, you can make useful notes and beautiful character sheets! And Gummi just put together a new blog on using the AI Notes feature and connecting notes within a campaign.

Also, hot news straight out of Mobile Dev: the bug plaguing us Android users over the weekend got fixed! Huzzah!

Mobile Improvements:

• Android users can now access their notes.

If the answer is to check the manual - then we got you!

This week we spent a lot of time pulling together all the documentation (and features lists) into a Library for Quest Portal … IN Quest Portal. That’s right, we added the Quest Portal to the Library.

In our effort to be more helpful, we wanted to add the manual to the library to give you even more ways of finding help when it comes to Quest Portal - in addition to you being able to reach out to us on Discord, clicking the Chat with Us button in the app, emailing us (support@questportal.com) or by checking the Web and Youtube. And for Pro users, you can even ask your assistant about Quest Portal when its not in session!

Talking about being helpful, here’s two helpful tips:

Widgets

Did you know that you can add Slots, Roll Buttons and Points in a table by using the "/" shortcut?

Pro User AI Tip

If you ask The Assistant to help generate character stats, you can also ask it to create rollable buttons for you too! Try: “Create stats for a D&D 5e characters, anything rollable should include a roll button in the format [[skill roll formula]]”

Improvements

• Quest Portal added to the Library
• Fate added to the Library
• Old School Essentials added to the Library
• Sheet Drawer Width is now responsive

Access all the Notes we need on the go? Slots for homebrew Universal Character Sheets? Yes and yes, because you deserve it.

We are very pleased to announce that Notes have come to Mobile Devices - including all the Notes features available on the web app. This includes the new Points and Slots widgets, the cross linking of @ mentions and the AI Notes Assistant to create locations, secrets and items on the fly!

SLOTS! Yes that’s right, the slots widget is here. In your Notes and on your Character Sheets, you can now add slots to track all sorts of things, from spell slots to equipped items to prepared items… the possibilities are all at your fingertips with the ability to mark half and full slots.

The Library also continues to grow as we add the Paragon SRD and the Cypher SRD into our system.

Improvements

• Slots Widget
• Paragon SRD in the Library
• Cypher SERD in the Library
• Fix: Character Sheets now show for all who owns them
• Fix: Game title too long no longer covers the ellipses option.

iOS and Android Improvements

• Notes now available on mobile apps
• Fix: Android keyboard now collapses when the Notes drawer closes.

We do enjoy a good chat, don’t you? A lot of good improvements and fixes were made to the chat with regards roll announcements last week - from misaligned portraits to incorrect yelling of FAILED, we can now yell EXTREME SUCCESS (on a single line now).

Hopefully you also enjoy a good read - because Black Flag roleplaying, D&D 3.5 SRD and Sly Flourish’s The Lazy DM’s books are in the library!

• Black Flag Roleplaying in the library!
• D&D 3.5 in the Library!
• Sly Flourish’s The Lazy GM’s Resource Document and 5e Monster Builder!
• Damage rolled is no longer FAILED!
• Character portraits no long misalign when a weapon has a lot of characters.
• Extreme Successes are on a single line again.
• Renaming folders no longer reduces the text to a miniscule size.
• New Feature: Points Widget for character sheets and notes!

• When downloading an image from a note, the keyboard no longer opens nor jumps to a random line.
• Endless scrolling, components out of view… Editing character sheets on the mobile is now a lot smoother.
• Sidebar icons and text enlarged with extra space to accommodate touch targets and readability.

Like anyone who loves a good ttrpg system to peruse through (even if we rarely get a chance to play) we always want more. Are there any great systems with SRDs out there that you would love to see in our library?

If so, let us know! Head on over to the Discord and tell us in the Suggestions channel, or drop us an email.

Ewww - unwanted bugs! Last week saw a big purge of bugs, regular maintenance and various fixes across Quest Portal, from mobile to the web platform to even our office! Many changes and updates are still in the works, so keep an eye out for those.

• Scene and roll announcements are no longer truncated.
• Notes Folders had a few updates. A folder where a 2nd level folder had been deleted, can now be placed in other folders. Also, clicking the 3 dot menu button doesn’t also open and close the folder.
• Campaign header images on Campaign Invites can now handle portrait and landscape images.
• Long names no longer misalign timestamps in notifications, and also are no longer centered in the more users menu in Session top bar.

• Fixed issue where global and campaign assistants interact.
• Added the write DELETE to confirm character delete.
• Made campaign fallback color consistent across the app.
• Fixed lag in campaign header scroll

If you find any bugs that we missed during our virtual fumigation, then let us know! We have a couple of different methods:

On the web, click your profile icon and then “Report a bug” in the Quest Portal web app. The system will automatically capture a short screen recording and upload error logs to our servers that really help us squash the bug.

If you’re on a mobile, then feel free to email us, or use the Bug-Reports channel on the Discord! (The iOS and Android app bug report feature is on the way though!)

In campaign settings, you can now set your campaign to a specific TTRPG game system. We offer official support for a few TTRPGs, (check out our Library) and plan to add support for even more in future updates.

To help us get the games you're playing prioritised for future support, we would love if you would let us know what you're playing! If your game is not listed in the Game System selection, let us know on Discord or over email and we'll make sure to add them.

Over the last few weeks, we've made many improvements and fixes to our native iOS and Android apps and updated our web app.

• Bunch of improvements to roll announcements
• Session tools are now available in lobby
• Improved how campaign information is handled. No need to pull to refresh anymore.
• The GM can now edit campaign info, such as name, description, profile photo, and cover photo.
• All sorts of campaign actions are now available, such as Leave campaign, Delete campaign, Duplicate campaign, Inviting Quest Portal users, and getting an invite link.
• Added way to share invites via a native drawer.
• Added missing search for invite empty state
• Added the Invite friends card.
• Improved the top bar scroll opacity
• Add character from the campaign profile drawer.
• Fixed padding to make space for the campaign toolbar.
• Fixed presence room not joined correctly
• Fixed sheet stuck in loading for deleted character
• Add delete confirmation to delete account on mobile. You now need to write DELETE to delete the account.
• Send verification mail after mobile signup
• Fixed drawer bottom spacing on Android
• Fix add to campaign only allowing you to add to owned campaigns
• Fixed pending invites not updating right away
• Fixed being able to invite already invited player
• Fixed character sheet flicker on update character
• Fixed chat bubble not dismissing right away on opening chat
• Fixed notification being sent about player leave on campaign delete.
• Fixed RuneScape runes not being rendered
• Fixed Call of Cthulhu roll announcements not working from pop-out character sheets
• Increases library source image size so the don't look blurry.

• Fixed issues with claiming a character would hide tabs on the character sheet.
• Fixed width issues with text boxes in the Bio tab on the Call of Cthulhu Character Sheet.

Happy Easter everyone!

Here's what the team did last week before Easter break.

• We gave the "in system" notification a lot of love (UI-wise and they are also clickable now - i.e., clicking accepted campaign invite takes you to the campaign).
• Also, two new in-app notifications, a notification if a user joined a campaign you are in or if a user left a campaign you are in
• Fixed layout issue for Universal Character sheets that have multiple tabs.
• The multiplayer cursor indicator in the notes now follows the color of your character token.
• Fixed a visual bug in tables within notes and using roll buttons.
• Fixed a scrollbar bug in our sheets.
• Fixed a bug where claimable characters could be set as hidden.

We emerge from our Easter break full of chocolate eggs and close to releasing a very big feature. We are very excited to share that news with you next week :)

Good tidings to ye! Another week passed, and lots of improvements were released. The big thing last week was that you can now upload GIFs as tokens. Here's a summary of what went on...

• Notes & Sheets & Library
  • Serious improvements to loading speeds of Notes and universal character sheets.
  • @mentioning from Notes can now be autocompleted by pressing tab.
  • Added some nice loading skeletons (they are harmless) to Notes.
  • Fixed a bug where creating a roll button with [[ ]] sometimes removed a character from the next word.
  • Fixed an issue where images took up too much space.
  • Fixed a wonky UI issue where roll buttons broke out of the confines of their table prisons.
  • Fixed an issue where rolling from a character sheet that had been popped out wasn't showing correct info in the roll announcement.
  • Fixed an issue where tab names weren't being synced in universal character sheets.
  • Improvements to input fields in the Notes editor.
• Session
  • You can now upload GIFs as tokens!
  • The "You are muted" notification had disappeared. It's back now.
  • Fixed an issue with video tokens taking up the full screen on mobile web.
• Character/Avatar creator
  • You can now search in the "Select" tab of the avatar creator.
• Assistant
  • Fixed an issue where our handy "Chat with us" icon went over the chat assistant send icon on mobile.
• Other
  • Fixed a minor issue with allowed usernames.

A quick review of quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes during the last 7 days.

• Notes & Sheets
  • When clicking on images, you can now zoom and scroll at will.
  • Added tooltips to the floating menu.
  • Fixed drag/drop on top of images.
  • Don't apply strikethrough to checkbox labels.
  • Fixed slash commands / @mention consuming up/down/enter.
  • Fixed notes focusing on the end of the file instead of the start.
• Scenes / Battlemaps
  • Fixed re-ordering not working in the scene deck.
  • Fixed scene not loading after deleting active scene in scene deck.
  • Added support for webp images.
  • Fixed issues with pasting tokens after rotating them.
• Mobile
  • Fixed CoC popovers on mobile.
  • Fixed account screen loading state on mobile.
  • Fixed CoC Popovers.
• Call of Cthulhu Character Sheets.
  • Made unarmed malfunction be 100… like breaking your wrist?
• Library
  • Fixed the title being scrolled under the sticky header.
  • Fixed issue with menu sometimes not showing.
• Other
  • Save preference of Chrome toast.
  • Fixed issue with uploading cover photos with the same name.

Between larger projects, like our AI Notes and bringing Character Sheets to our iOS and Android Mobile Apps, we like to spend time with our current features. We take great pride in our craft and love sitting by the hearth and applying a thick layer of polish.

Here’s a rundown of our improvements in the last 7 days:

• AI Notes.
  • Improved shortcuts. Hit enter to start and escape to cancel.
  • Improved how we pull information about your character into AI Notes.
• Library.
  • Added better loading states for the previous and next buttons.
  • Fixed how previous and next buttons handle folders.
• Notes.
  • Fixed margin of tables.
  • Fixed an issue with pasting stuff in the title area.
• Home.
  • Improved the creation flow of new Universal / Blank campaigns.
• iOS and Android Apps.
  • Improvements to the bottom bar in preparation for bringing Characters into Sessions on mobile.
• Sheets.
  • Fixed a few issues with tabs, GM's couldn’t rename tabs of player sheets, in some cases tabs didn't show up if they where alone (stagefright?), and reordering had some kinks.
  • Added some logging to Sheets to debug issues in the future better.
• Call of Cthulhu Character Sheet
  • Improved hover states and cursor behavior.
• Scenes.
  • You can now upload GIF tokens.

Thank you for taking the time to read our changelog! Don't hesitate to drop by our Discord and let us know what area should receive our next bottle of sparking polish ❤️

Greetings, Keepers of Arcane Lore, Masters of Games, and Rollers of Dice,

We're looking forward to showcasing a few big features we're working on, but today, we're listing the small, big things. The stuff that significantly affects our quality of life as we prepare and play our favorite TTRPGs!

• Mobile. We made massive improvements to the battery performance of our iOS and Android apps - as well as a lot of polish and improvements.
• Notes. We made many improvements to tables in Campaign Notes and Character Sheets; they’re now more manageable to work with, copy, and paste. We also fixed an issue where Roll buttons would sometimes not work in pop-out notes.
• Characters. We now remember your sorting preference on the characters overview page and added some excellent polish.
• Library. We’ve added buttons to navigate to the "next page" and "previous page" for more straightforward navigation.
• Chat. We fixed a long-running issue where opening the chat for the first time would sometimes fail.
• Sessions: Fixed the Mic indicator, for some weird cases.
• Scenes. Fixed a couple of issues with video scenes. Placing tokens would sometimes misbehave.
• Campaigns. Claiming pre-made campaigns would sometimes have empty Character Sheets.

In total, we completed 40 bug tickets and 48 polish tasks since our last changelog 🎉

We have added LevelUp 5e, a free claimable D&D adventure, and included RuneQuest with Chasoium Core!

For all you RuneQuest fans out there, you can now explore the world of RuneQuest with these awesome books:

• Roleplaying in Glorantha
• Glorantha Bestiary
• Gamemaster Adventures

Enjoy getting to know the rich world of Glorantha, where mythology, magic and fantasy all weave into one.

The RuneQuest Assistant can help you build characters, learn more about the world, and give you ideas on the fly. Test it out with Quest Portal Pro and Chaosium Core.

Never played in Glorantha? Try out the basic rules for free in our Library.

We have added Level Up 5e: Advanced to the Library. Level Up 5e builds upon the rules of the D&D 5e SRD, with more backgrounds, spells and lore. Check out the LevelUp 5e team on: https://www.levelup5e.com/

Write your own D&D adventure with the aid of the Assistant; you can bounce off ideas, generate random encounters and pull up information from the 5e SRD and LevelUp 5e.

You can now go and play Mirehaven's Curse with your friends. We have included Universal Sheets to make it easier to set up your characters. We also included some pre-generated monsters and you can always add more by searching in the library and copy-paste them to your sheets!

Rich from D&D Reinkarnated wrote this amazing adventure and was so kind to offer people claiming the adventure on Quest Portal a 25% discount on their Patreon. If you are playing Dungeons & Dragons 5e, go check Rich out at: https://www.dndreinkarnated.com/

We hope you enjoy exploring the new world of Glorantha and go on epic adventures in whatever 5e universe you are in!

Access your books anywhere; just hop into your browser on a mobile device, log in to Quest Portal and read to your heart's content. Check out our Chaosium Core subscription in the Marketplace for a great deal on Call of Cthulhu sourcebooks.

You can now easily navigate Quest Portal in mobile browsers using the new bottom navigation bar, just like in the Quest Portal mobile app!

We've been busy making Quest Portal look and feel nicer in browsers on mobile devices. All top-level views should now be much improved. There is still some way to go but we are working on it.

We are cheering for our developers who are working hard on upcoming features for the iOS and Android mobile app. We can't wait to share with you what is to come.

You can download the app here: iPhone and Android 💜

• We have fixed some performance issues when dragging tokens on the session canvas.
• Fixed an issue where uploading images didn't work in Notes.
• Fixed an issue where the Quest Portal Assistant was linking to empty Library sources.
• Fixed tables in Notes so that headers, rows and columns can't be moved around.
• Little UI fix to the upload button in Create Scene.
• And some other bits and bobs!

We are excited to tell you that our mobile app has received a major upgrade!

Are you commuting to your session and forgot that Paula, your character, died last time? No problem, create your Call of Cthulhu Character in no time on the bus. Did you also just realise that you forgot your dice? Never mind, just roll from your character sheet in the app!

We upgraded the navigation so we can continue to work on nice new features for you. You will see a swanky new bottom bar on the app that allows you to navigate between campaigns, characters, the assistant and settings.

You can edit your Call of Cthulhu Characters and create new ones. With more or less all the features that you have on your desktop. So roll, fight, and update your personal travel notes - all from the app!

You can check out our blog here on how to create a Call of Cthulhu Character

You can now create a Character Sheet for your favourite roleplaying game on the mobile app too! Use different tabs for your character's attributes and use the note editor to add headings, tables, images check-boxes, boxtext AND the most exciting thing - roll buttons! 🎉

We are still working on our universal sheets, so there is more to come soon!

We also must mention that you can now pop out the Character Sheets on the desktop, just like you can pop out notes and chat. Handy for the Game Master that wants it all at once on the screen!

We hope you have fun using the mobile app on your adventures!

Hey all!
We are back after some relaxing vacation time, and all of us are getting really excited for the coming months. 🥳

The highlight of this week is that we have added two new SRD’s to the library! These are two awesome roleplaying games that I am sure you will love and that some of you have been waiting for.

A roleplaying game about ordinary people who live pretty dramatic lives. The System is perfect for people who want to play out a blockbuster movie or in a world where something is just a little bit off. You could get inspired by watching The Unsleeping City by Dimension 20, where Brennan shows his love of New York City or check out Lockwood and Co, a paranormal post-apocalyptic world. Super sweet system to write your own stories!

Fate uses the Fudge dice roll system so of course, we needed to add some dice to Quest Portal! You can now roll dice that shows blank, minus, and plus by writing /roll 1df in the chat. You can also create dice rolls by using brackets. For example [[1df]] to roll one Fate dice.

Evil Hat is an awesome company that you should go check out if you haven't. They publish Fate and many more Game Systems.
https://evilhat.com/

Randy Oest has done some awesome work making Table Top Roleplaying games accessible, check out their project at https://randyoest.com/; you will not be disappointed.

An awesome theatre of the mind-system created by Chris McDowall. You might recognize the name Electric Bastionaland, which expands on the Into the Odd system. You should check him Chris's work at https://www.bastionland.com/

Into the Odd has also been used as an inspiration for many games, such as Mausritter! 🐭

We added Blades in the Dark a couple of weeks back and now we have improved the library linking for the Assistant, it should be more accurate and give you better information.

If you have Quest Portal Pro, then you can use The Assistant for all of these systems. They can brainstorm with you ideas about your homebrew world and link you to the rules and resources.

We have been working on improving the mobile experience behind the scenes, making things work smoother and eventually look better for the next release, the fancy 2.0.0!

Let us know if you decide to run Fate Core, Into the Odd or Blades in the Dark and tell us what type of shenanigans you got into! And happy world-creating from all of us here at Quest Portal 🧙

Guten Tag!

We are in Berlin, taking part in a fully immersive hackathon, working on some super cool things we hope to use for Quest Portal!
Currently we are living on crisps and sour candy so we will make this update shorter than usual 🍺

We are so excited to announce that we have launched roll buttons for the universal character sheets! This is a step on our character sheet journey that we are very excited about.
We are looking forward for you checking out this feature and hopefully building some sweet sheets for your favourite system.

See you next week with a more detailed update! 🧙

Dive into the enigmatic realms of chaos with our latest addition, Cults of Cthulhu now in Chaosium Core.
Unveil the mystique of Lovecraftian horror as you explore the sinister cults such as the Esoteric Order Of Dagon or the Louisiana Swamp Cult. You can even take a peek using the 7-day free trial 👀

• Content: Cults of Cthulhu in Chaosium Core

• Responsive web: Better experience on marketplace, character overview and the home screen

• Push notifications: A double ping notifications error on app fixed
• Scenes: Performance improvements with tokens and dice on scenes
• Subscriptions: Improvement on flow behind the scenes

• Choose an icon and give your dice formula that special something. Perfect when you have many actions that you quickly want to tell apart or just make it extra pretty! ✨
• We added a pop-up reminder for you, sometimes you need to log-in again to have the latest version of our features. Just be aware sometimes the changes are behind the hood so you might not notice 👀
• You can now take a picture of yourself on the mobile app if you want to update your profile pic on the fly! 📸
  

• We made improvements to our internal tools this week, which has made the content team incredibly happy and allowed us to move faster with conversion ❤️

• We fixed a bug where the GM characters where not showing on mobile👀

✨New:

• We have a new mobile release 1.5.4 that just came out where we spent some time improving and fixing a couple of things
• We published a video walk through of The Haunting of the one shot scenarios on Quest Portal

💎Improvements

• Enhanced the visual design of certain UI elements
• Smoother toggle animation for session audio

🐞Fixes:

• Some scene deck fixes so now it’s easier to pick a variant!
• We fixed the save and cancel button functionality in the scene deck
• Fixed syncing on claimable characters between mobile and web
• Resolved issues with pings and measure tools not working after changing scenes
• Fixed a crash related to maps in scenes.

Happy Monday people!

We have added a shiny new audio toggle that allows you to stay out of the audio channel when in session.

Why is this great?

• Now you can prep a session without being on the audio channel, great for your battery.
• It’s also a handy little feature if you are playing at home, perhaps while using our Call of Cthulhu Character Sheets

Additionally:

• We were featured on Tabletop News! Check out the show ❤️
• We are updating our blog all the time so make sure to have a look! Our latest one is about AI. AI in TTRPGs: Innovation or Invasion?

• We improved the look and feel of the top bar when using the audio-channel toggle in session.

• We fixed the image upload when creating new scenes. Now you should be able to search to your heart’s content.
• Android performance issues with mobile drawer, now you should have no problems scrolling the pop-up drawer.

Wow! Want a new scene or to quickly add a token? Boom! Just drag and drop a file onto the current scene and it will appear. Supports uploading multiple files to create multiple tokens or a scene with multiple variants.

Additionally:

• You can catch the last few events available at Start Playing Games for learning how to play Call of Cthulhu.
• We released a great overview of The Lightless Beacon scenario for Call of Cthulhu on Youtube.
• We released a new page for our Quest Portal Pro offering.

New scenario: The Haunting
A classic Call of Cthulhu scenario, a perfect introduction 7th edition of the game.

🔗 Login to play The Haunting.

• The Quest Portal Assistant now shows you the correct chapter name in the source its using.
• We improved how our main navigation and toolbars display on small screens.
• Players can claim multiple characters.
• We made many small improvements to our marketing web, e.g. a really cool right click on our logo to download the asset.

• Fixed an issue where the library sidebar wouldn't scroll to the correct place after opening a library link from the Assistant.
• Fixed a bug with campaign transfer ownership where it wasn't possible to transfer if a character didn't have a character sheet.

Hey all,

We are excited to tell you that, now you can transfer campaigns over to your friends! 🧙

✨ New

Transfer Ownership Feature

💎 Improvements

We are working hard just giving everything that extra touch!

✨ New
We introduce the highlights features for your Call of Cthulhu character sheet. You can now customise your character sheet and have the most used skills within reach.

✨ New
You can now use the Quest Portal Assistant, Library Link and The Avatar Generator with your Pro subscription.

Forge Connections with Library Link
The Library Link gives the Quest Portal Assistant access to knowledge about supported TTRPGs and brings you directly to the source of its answer!

Quest Portal Assistant in your campaign
Choose the Quest Portal Assistant you want to support your campaign. At the moment we have support for Call of Cthulhu, DnD 5e and Blades in the Dark with more exciting things to come.

The Avatar Generator
Make an NPC on the fly that your party decided to take to the road or bring to life your favorite characters.

We are so excited that this moment has arrived and we cannot wait to see what adventures you come up with!

Go explore new worlds!

We are excited to announce that we have added two new SRDs to the library. You can now go and create new worlds with the DnD 5e SRD, or perhaps you want to go and play in a dark fantasy city using the Blades in the Dark SRD. Whatever you come up with, we would love to hear about it on our discord!

• We have added the SRD for 5e DnD and Blades in the Dark Game System for you to explore!
• Now you can use the Bookmarks Feature, which makes it much easier to save sections you might need for your game!.
  

• We have updated the linking feature in the library, so you can jump from section to section.

• Small bugs here and there and cosmetic updates.

Hey all,

We have been working hard and getting ready for some great new things that are coming in the next couple of weeks! For now please enjoy the new Scene Folder feature!

• Scene folders are here to help you organize. Gone are the days of the overwhelming amount of awesome scenes. Now you can tuck them into a neat folder!

• We have been tinkering and tidying up little things here and there, to overall improve your experience of Quest Portal.

• We have been fixing cosmetic things to make everything more seamless. We are also super excited for things to come!

Oh no, not again!

Have your players latched onto the NPC named Peter and won't let them go?
Well, you are in luck, we just uploaded 400 new avatars to our character library so hopefully you find something to inspire you! 👀

✨ New Avatars

• Fantasy
• Future
• Modern
• Pirates
• Vintage
• Western
  
  

The Lightless Beacon is a one-shot Call of Cthulhu scenario written for the first Greg Stafford Day. Greg Stafford founded Chaosium and influenced the universe of tabletop gaming beyond measure.

✨ What is new?

• Scenes. Animated scenes and music that you can use with locations in the scenario.
• Rules. We added the rules from the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set so now you have everything you need to play with your friends.
• Organisation. We have organised the whole scenario again so it should be easy for you to navigate and find everything you need.

With Notes 2.0, we are continuously improving your workflow, now with subfolders.

Create folders within folders for each campaign, world, or character, and watch as your notes find their rightful place in a harmonious system.

Gone are the days of searching through heaps of loose papers and forgotten scrolls!

• Subfolders. You can now create subfolders
• Usability. We have improved how you drag and drop your notes and folders.
• Collaborate. You can now collaborate and write notes together.
• Efficiency. Our awesome developers have improved storage capacity and made things better in our system.

Ohai! Pings on the map now use the same color as your character token border. Just double click!

• Characters. We've made multiple improvements to Character management, claiming, and previewing.

Howdy pals! This week we have a few new features fresh off the presses and straight to your app experience. Not only that, we have a few magical improvements!

• Web Roll. Now you can access your favorite dice roller by heading over to questportal.com/roll
• Demo Campaign. We’ve added a simple adventure for people to try out some different features of Quest Portal.  https://www.questportal.com/blog/try-quest-portal-with-a-new-demo-campaign

• Multiple Player Characters. Players can now add multiple characters to campaigns. Add your familiar, or keep track of all the deceased PCs your GM has wiped out through your campaign.
• Notes. Clicking on images in notes will open them in a fullscreen lightbox.

We’re excited to share with you our new Notes tool. Players love taking notes during sessions, jotting down all the loot, and keeping track of their quests. With multiplayer editing, the whole group can now collaborate and share memories.

Our new editor is an important step in our vision for building the best possible home brewing experience. We have a lot more coming here, so stay tuned.

Please Note that your old notes can be found by switching to “Old notes” in Account Settings under Preview Features. Your old notes will be available until October 1, 2023. If you have any issues with copy-pasting your old notes to our new ones, we would love to help; just call us at support@questportal.com or on our Discord.

We added our beautiful dice roller to the Quest Portal iOS and Android apps! Tap on the gorgeous dice pad and watch your d20s and d100 bounce onto the screen in beautiful 3D.

• Mobile Dice. You now have instant access to your standard d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, and d100 in our mobile app.
• Mobile Dice Formulas. All of the dice formulas (aka macros) you save on Quest Portal web will now appear in our iOS and Android apps.

• Elder. The official Call of Cthulhu Keeper assistant can now be accessed during gaming sessions on mobile.

Howdy Questies,

We’ve been busy moving and grooving on a ton of session improvements and updates to make your campaigns shine. Not only that, we’ve revved up our engines (aka Quest Portal’s speed and responsiveness) to make your games a seamless experience.

The quality of life improvements are far too numerous to count, but we have squashed several bugs affecting tokens, scenes, and overall loading time. As always, if you happen to encounter the occasional bug in the wild OR you’d like to chat directly with our developer team, be sure to join us on Discord.

Using your favorite Call of Cthulhu AI Assitant with other tools is now easier. Hit the “pop-out” button to unleash Elder into a separate browser window. You can even favorite that URL and open it directly.

• Sessions. Over the past week, we’ve had our magnifying glass on the session experience and completed 45 smaller issues and polishes.

Effortlessly join sessions hosted by your awesome Keepers and Game Masters from the comfort of your mobile device!

Talk with your group through audio, message over chat, watch cinematic scenes bring your story to life, and strategically move your token around the battle map when the fog of war fades away.

Get the iPhone app from the Apple App Store (HERE)

Get the Android app from the Google Play Store (HERE)

• Mobile Sessions. Players can now join sessions from their couches!

• Touch. In addition to our native iOS and Android apps, we’ve made a flurry of improvements around using fingers in your browser on tablets. Dragging tokens, adding and removing fog, pinging a location, measuring distance, and much more.
• Scenes. We made some massive performance improvements around scenes and the scene bar. Campaigns with a lot of scenes should now notice that everything is much snappier, scenes and their thumbnails load faster, and dragging to reorder them works much better.

• Video Scenes. We fixed an issue that caused video scenes to cause havoc.
• Characters. Fixed loading states of the characters overview screen, Universal Character Sheets, and the Call of Cthulhu character sheets.
  

Howdy, dear friends! This week we have added a shiny new feature to our Universal Character Sheets as well as made a few improvements to enhance your experience in the app. Read on to see what we have cooking!

• Universal Character Sheets. We now have live editing with multiplayer cursors so GMs and Players can work together on building the perfect characters.
  

• Dice. Dice roll faster
• Call of Cthulhu. Base skills now show up in the character sheet.

Remember to check out our iOS and Android apps!

A blank sheet of paper. A beautiful canvas ready for your favorite pen-and-paper role-playing game. Our new universal character sheets allow you to play any game --from your favorite indies to your classic dungeon crawls!

• Universal Character Sheets. A lightweight character sheet for any game system you can think of. Add your stats, inventory, spells, or whatever you can think of for your character.

• Call of Cthulhu. Newly created investigators now start with the correct basic skill points. This was a small regression, and we just shipped a fix.
• Call of Cthulhu. We’ve added a tab for Notes in our investigator sheets, which shares the same functionality as our new Universal Character Sheets.

• Elder. Lots of small improvements, content fine-tuning, and better rendering of lists.
• Scenes. Fixed an issue with drag ‘n drop uploading would only work for the first variant and fail forever thereafter.

Introducing Elder, the eldritch AI assistant trained to deliver rules and lore straight from Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game.

Elder is trained on all the content from the core rulebooks of Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition:

• Investigator Handbook
• Keeper Rulebook
• Malleus Monstrorum Vol 1 & 2
• Grand Grimoire of Cthulhu Mythos Magic.

Keep an investigative eye out for the entire Call of Cthulhu collection of rules, lore, and scenarios planned to arrive in the future.

Elder is available today with the Chaosium Core subscription!

• Elder! Access our new Call of Cthulhu AI assistant from within your campaigns or from our native iOS and Android apps.

• Audio. We’ve made lower volumes lower.
• Tokens. We’ve made the default token the thinner ones.
• Elder. Made it handier to copy text from Elder’s responses.

• Call of Cthulhu Character Sheets. Fixed rolling weapons damage.
• Elder. Fixed some scrollbar styling bugs.
• Character Sheets. Fixed an issue where we showed an incorrect error message when loading a character sheet.

Hello, Questies! We have made some MAJOR improvements to our Call of Cthulhu Character Sheet to celebrate all the beautiful projects on the horizon with our good friends at Chaosium. We hope these improvements elevate your campaigns so you can focus on telling YOUR stories at the table. Also, if you happen to be in Ann Arbor, MI, this weekend, stop and say hi at Chaosium Con 2023. We have a few major announcements, so stay tuned to our socials (Twitter | Facebook | Instagram) for more updates!

• Hit Points. Toggle your hit points down (and sometimes up 😉 ) with handy arrows.
• Skills. Half skills will now round down per the dark deity's request. 
• Luck & Sanity. Values have been adjusted to a max of 99
• Combat. Weapons and attacks roll correctly from the combat tab and will update if changed. 
• Scrollable Bio. For all of the backstory babes out there.
• Damage Bonus. It should not be rollable –so we fixed it! 🪄
• Starting Skills. We trimmed down the list to reflect the most used skills in the game.
• Roll Alerts. We squished a bug that was interfering with the color of this popup. 
• Fresh Characters. New Call of Cthulhu characters will start with a clean slate, ready for you to assign all skills and stats. 
• Weapon Damage. All weapon damage will now have the modifier added to the roll.

Add vintage flair to your campaigns with our new collection of noir themed avatars. Whether you are looking for the perfect portrait for your next character or a nefarious NPC, we have you covered.

Happy Tuesday! This week we are rolling out a huge update that introduces non-playable characters or NPCs into the fray, along with super sweet tools for character organization.

• Secret Characters. GMs now have the ability to create epic NPCs and characters complete with tokens, avatars, and backstories without revealing them to the players. 
• Character Menu. Menu options in Characters, Campaign Profile, and Character Sheets have been updated with additional options such as Add Character Campaign and toggle Claimable.
• Character Cards. Campaign Profile now has GM character cards. These are only visible to players if the character has hidden toggled off.

Hello, dear adventurers! This week we are bringing some major updates from the mobile realm. Quest Portal is NOW AVAILABLE on Android. That’s right! Now you can chat with your friends and foes between sessions from the convenience of your Android device. Check us out on the Google Play store, and while you’re there, feel free to drop us a review!

• Android. View your campaigns, chat with your friends, and roll some dice with our handy Android app.

We’ve also updated the iOS version of our app with the following changes:

• Mobile Notifications. We fixed a couple of issues with lingering push notification badges.
• Mobile Chat. We fixed an issue where copying a message crashed the app. Now, when you copy a message, it's copied to your clipboard, and the app stays nicely uncrashed.

Howdy adventurers! We are excited to share a few updates on the horizon and very special news here at Quest Portal. First things first! We are happy to celebrate two tiny additions to our Quest Portal crew. Our incredible developers, Guðjón and Benni, separately welcomed their beautiful newborn babies into the world. What a busy last few weeks, indeed! These proud papas will be stepping away from coding to enjoy fatherhood and spending time with their families. We are sending them both so much love and support.

As we look toward the future, we have many awesome projects in the pipeline. Without further ado, here are a few things you can expect from Quest Portal.

✅ Adding NPCs. You’ll soon be able to add NPCs to your campaigns, complete with custom avatars, backstories, and character sheets. (Shipped March 14th)

✅ Generic Character Sheets. Create a simple character sheet for any TTRPG under the sun. We will work towards making these character sheets modular to fit your individual gaming needs. (Shipped April 25th)

✅ Improved Avatars. Our avatar generator is getting a super sweet upgrade.

✅ Folders in Notes. We are adding a folder structure to help our players organize their thoughts more efficiently.

✅ Shared Notes. Collaborate with your entire gaming crew with multiplayer editing on a single document.

An elderly clerk at the local sheriff's office might have witnessed something intriguing. Bring them and 14 other bystanders, neighbours, and staff to your next adventure with a new Avatar Pack of average NPCs.

• Avatar Pack. 15 new average-looking characters. Great for NPCs or just your next everyday hero.

• Dice. Fixed issues where the 3D dice and the roll announcement cards didn’t match up. A big ♥️ to masterdome and Junglepat for helping us find this bugger.

Take your date on a romantic (and only slightly cursed) randevu with our 10 new scenes for your next Call of Cthulhu campaign. These scenes include cozy libraries, intimate restaurants, and pleasant graveyards…

Love is in the air with our 10 new scenes inspired by Call of Cthulhu.

Our new locations include:

• Coffee Shop Entrance
• Deck of a Boat
• Fine Restaurant
• Abandoned Diner
• Graveyard
• Library
• 2 candle-lit rituals
• Quiet Park
• Restaurant Booth

In case you missed it...we have a shiny new website! It showcases our current features and even includes a super sweet highlight video. We miiiight be a bit biased, but we think it looks pretty darn rad. Additionally, we have created an onboarding checklist for folks exploring the app for the first time. This checklist walks you through our features so you can confidently create your next campaign in a breeze.

• Website. We have a new internet home over at questportal.com
• Onboarding. We’ve added a checklist to help new people explore Quest Portal, you can try it out here => The Onboarding Quest

Fanged friends unite! This week we are excited to bring you a collection of 27 avatars inspired by the fantastical and fearsome creatures that roam throughout fantasy games like D&D and Pathfinder.

• Character Avatars. We added a shiny new Avatar Pack. This one includes 27 creatures that live above and below us all.

• Characters. We’ve updated your character overview to make better use of big screens. This also includes some features to help you organize all your extraordinary heroes.

• Characters. Fixed an issue where a window you shouldn’t see popped in and backed out briefly.

Do you want to show off some spell effects, sword attacks, or just some idle animations? Add these fun visual effects, see your maps come to life, and transport your players to a world of adventure and fantasy.

• Maps. We now support animated tokens. Upload .webm, .mp4, .mov, or .mpeg files to your token drawer and throw them on your map during your next session.

• Maps. We improved the token drawer, made it easier to see your most recent tokens at the top, and made it nicer to look at :)

• Maps. Fixed an issue where adding recently uploaded tokens to the map would fail.
• Maps. Fixed an issue where tokens would fall out of sync. This was a nasty little bugger that was bothering us but was properly squashed!
• Characters. Fixed an issue where having too many premades had some visual glitches.
  

Greetings adventurers! This week we have made many mighty improvements across the browser and (new!) mobile version of the app.

• Music. Now longer song titles will no longer break stuff.
• Characters. We gave our tagline a potion of lengthening, so now your character's inner thoughts won't be cut short.
• Characters. Leave campaigns from the character screen without any pesky error notifications.
• Avatars. Our cropping and resizing tool now behaves when uploading avatars.
  
• Mobile Chat. Our loading states have been cured.

• Mobile Chat. We imbued the chat with a header, a quick scroll-to-bottom button, an enchanted spinner, and added a long tap to copy on messages.
• Mobile Campaigns. Now you can enjoy your default campaign image at the top.

Happy New Year!

We are thrilled to announce that Quest Portal is now available to download in the Apple App store. Our mobile app places your epic adventures straight into the palm of your hand and helps you stay connected with your group wherever you are.

With chat as the main focus of this first version, you can message your group to ensure everyone is ready for tonight’s game and perhaps even roll some stealth checks during downtime. 😏

We intentionally kept our first version of the app minimal to quickly get it into your hands. We’ll be polishing the experience and adding the sessions next.

• Mobile App. Quest Portal is now available in the Apple App Store. Download here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quest-portal/id1588540503. We’re still doing internal testing on the Android app; we hope to make it available in the Google Play Store soon. 🤘
• Mobile Campaigns. View your campaigns and members on the go.
• Mobile Chat. Chat with fellow adventurers, share handouts, GIFs, and coordinate your next session.
• Mobile Text Rolls. Roll dice from the chat by typing things like /roll d20 or /r 4d6kh

• Avatars. Added a category for “Modern” looking avatars.
• Dice. You can now edit and duplicate your dice formulas.

• Dice. Fixed an issue that made it tricky to change the type of dice in formulas.
• Avatars. Fixed the scrollbar for saving avatars.
• Dice. The dice roll announcement card now shows a comma between rolls if we’re not adding them up.

Travel to worlds unknown with our collection of 12 futuristic scenes. These vignettes are perfect for your next Cyberpunk game or wherever the universe takes you!

• Scenes. We’ve added a set of 12 futuristic scenes to our global scene collection. Enjoy! 🤖🚀

Behold! We have added a whopping 200 curated avatars that are perfect for your next adventure. The themes for these portraits include Vintage, Western, Modern, Fantasy, and more!

• Avatars. We’ve added a set of 200 curated avatars for your next character.

• Scenes. Music now loops
• Profiles. We fixed an issue where we forced casing for the display name.

Welcome to our final instalment of the year in our “Let’s Make Amazing Map Tools” series. Over the last few weeks, we’ve launched Grids, Multi-select Tokens, and Fog of War. This week we add a delightful little Measure Tool. It knows the size of your map (Using inputs from the Grid tool) and gives you a quick way to figure out the distance to that weird-looking monster.

And yes, we take your custom grid sizes and units into account. We hear that some people use their feet to measure distance. 🇺🇸👀

• Measure. Everyone can pick the measurement tool to determine distance. Hit M on the keyboard, click and drag. Simple.

• Avatars. You can now pick a random background mood while generating profile images for your character avatar.
• Avatars. We made the preset avatar categories more consistent.

• Avatars. People with smaller screens now have a better time during avatar creation.
• Campaigns. Fixed issues where deleting campaigns also deleted player characters.
• Audio. Fixed an issue where the volume would reset after unmuting.
  

Join our Discord to follow along with work in progress.

=> questportal.com/discord

A ONE?! Keep it! Fail gloriously.

If anyone is interested in saying “advantage” and “disadvantage” in Icelandic, it’s “meðbyr” (meth-byr̃) and “mótbyr" (moat-byr̃). 🤘

• Dice Formulas. Added support for keeping or dropping the highest or lowest dice—another handy addition to our visual builder for dice formulas, aka Macros.

• Map Tools. Based on your suggestions, we made 20 improvements to our new grid and fog tools! Words like padding, positioning, strokes, zooming, shortcuts, and pixels were frequently mentioned.

• Call of Cthulhu Character Sheets. Fixed an issue with Regular/Hard/Extreme rolls and another one where the skill didn’t appear correctly in the roll cards.
• Character Avatars. Fixed an issue where profile images didn’t resize correctly on the uploading screen.

• Measure. How far will you get in this round? An upcoming map tool gives you a quick way to measure distances between two points.

Are you hiding something? Perhaps a smoke-filled backroom used for interrogations? A hidden chamber in the dungeon. Access to a murky basement? Grab our new Fog Tool and shroud your maps in mystery, revealing parts to your players as they progress.

• Fog of War. The Game Master can now apply and remove bits of Fog of War and toggle between their translucent view of the scene and player preview.
• Dice. We’ve added custom dice types to our shiny dice formula builder. Grab Dungeon Crawl Classics and spin up your d3, d5, d14, d16, d24, and d30!

• Generate Avatars. We made a few behind-the-scenes improvements to our generated character artwork.
• Keyboard Shortcuts. While using some of the new map tools, you can hold down the space bar to move. While great improvements have been made, we still have a few more things on our to-do list.

• Dice. Fixed an issue where typing 0 into the compare field would crash the app. 😮
• Character Sheets. Fixed a minor layout issue with text fields in our Call of Cthulhu character sheet.
• Map Tools. Fixed issues with hover states.

Welcome to the griddiest changelog to date. This week we grid you new maps and a few new handy tools for all the mapcionado. Oh, and a couple of dicy improvements.

• Grid Tool. Our new Grid Tool allows the Game Master in each campaign to create and edit Grids on their maps. They can fine-tune the location of the grid with the mouse or arrow keys, control the grid's opacity, define the size, and decide if tokens should snap to the grid.
• Select Tool. You can now multi-select tokens with our Select tool. When the Select tool is enabled, you can click+drag to form a box around multiple tokens that will obey your every command in unison! You can also do this from the default Move tool by holding down SHIFT and clicking on all the tokens you want.
• Dice. We’ve added a way to compare rolls. Perfect for dice pools of all kinds. In the formula builder, you can now compare your roll results with a number and count how many dice are greater or lower than your target.

We added two new creators to our map collection:

• FragMaps. We've added gorgeous modern and futuristic maps from the very talented FragMaps. A techno nightclub, construction site, gas station, and more.
• Dyson Maps. A selection of 7 hand-drawn maps in a very simple style. Caverns, Towns, Ponds, Caves, and more.

Find these and more in Campaign > Session > Scenes.

• Dice. Improved behind-the-scenes audio text labels on all the buttons to improve accessibility.

Roll initiative with our epic new dice formula builder! Now you can build and save custom dice rolls for any adventure. This handy new feature will save you time and streamline your experience, allowing you to focus more on the story.

• Dice Formulas. Build and save custom dice rolls for easy access during your games. Simply name the action, then add the dice you’d like to roll. You can add d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, and d100 as well as some simple modifiers; plus, minus, multiply, and divide.

• Account Settings. We made the Account Settings page a bit prettier.

Kick off your campaign with our newest collections of location scenes! These wondrous locations run the gamut from an airy marketplace to deep murky catacombs.

Our new scenes include…

• Open Air Marketplace
• Outside the Tavern
• Boxing Gym
• The Dojo
• Modern Office
• Sci-fi Clone Lab
• The Dungeons
• A Cozy Brownstone Building
• Murky Catacombs
• Castle Hallways

• Scenes. Fixed an issue where thumbnails came out a bit too blurry.

Howdy Questies! Get ready for an adventure with 26 new scenes. These gorgeous locations range from a bleak lighthouse beneath crashing waves to a cosy warm tavern.

• Scenes. We added 26 new scenes that you can now add to your adventure. The scenes range from abandoned huts to active volcanos.

• Session. Fixed an issue that prevented you from selecting tokens that were too close to the dice menu.

This week brings a few more accessibility improvements, including improved tab and audio navigation for in-session tools. We also added alt text to images, outlines on focus, and descriptive button text.

We also made a bunch of improvements to our tooling and development workflows. These important changes allow us to move faster to help you craft wondrous tales and experiences within Quest Portal. 💖

Howdy folks! This week we have added tons of improvements to make your time using Quest Portal easy. These improvements cover accessibility, a few Firefox fixes (try saying that three times fast!), and adding animations to a couple of icons.

• Icons. We added fun little animations to our Home, Characters, and Notifications icons.
• Character Manager. Improved input fields, buttons, alt-texts, and headings to better support screen readers.
• Accessibility. Keyboard navigation and audio improvements were made to the Characters view, Token Drawer, Notes Drawer, and Chat Drawer. These areas are now more accessible for tab and audio navigation.
• Roll Announcements. Your character avatar will appear in the roll announcement instead of the character token. If no character is selected, it will default to your profile picture.
• Animated backgrounds. Now available to all our users.
• Tokens. We no longer crop tokens into a circle. Now you can drop in your squares and trapezoids.

• Campaigns. Fixed an issue on Firefox where a long description completely broke our layout.
• Campaigns. We made sure that the campaign image now looks the same everywhere.
• Character Sheets. Fixed an issue where anyone could edit the “Bio” field in our character sheets.
• Character Sheets. Fixed an issue where we had the campaign creation date wrong.
• Character Sheets. Fixed an issue where images of your character didn’t scale the right way on Firefox.
• Onboarding. Updated profile pictures to upload correctly

We’re back with our biggest update yet! We have unleashed the ability to generate Avatars directly within Quest Portal. This feature has never been seen before on any VTT, and we are thrilled to bring this level of epic immersion to your home games. But that’s not all! We’ve also launched a stunning Token Designer created with accessibility in mind.

• Generate AI Avatars. Just describe your character, and our small army of Automatons will draw a picture in a few seconds. These lil guys are still learning, so mistakes will be made. Tell us if they do something funny, and post your amazing #creations on our Discord channel. Learn more about our approach to AI technology.
• Token Designer. Add a beautiful border around your character token in the Character editor. Simply hover over the row of circles and select the colour you’d like.

• Scenes. You can now create scenes faster. Drag & drop files onto the Create Scenes drawer to upload them instantly. Dropping multiple files will create one scene with multiple variants.

Add a dash of magic to your adventures with our animated backgrounds! You can set the mood by uploading your creations or choosing from our curated collection of animated backgrounds.

• Animated Scenes. You can now upload a video as a scene. The video will loop endlessly. We currently support MOV, MP4, and WebM.

• Animated Backgrounds. We’ve added a fresh collection of 34 animated backgrounds that can be used to create scenes.

• Text Dice. We’ve added support for math-only rolls; just type “/r 12+19” into chat to have Quest Portal do your heavy math lifting. Note: just FYI, we, of course, also support dice in our text dice rolls, like “/r d20 + 5”
• More File Types For Uploading. We now support WebP for images and OGG for audio.

• Navigation. Changed "Go to campaign" to "Back to campaign."

Hey Questies! We are happy to bring you tons of shiny updates this fine Tuesday. We’ve added not one but TWO new art themes to our growing collection of AI-generated character avatars and loads of improvements to make your time using the app a breeze.

• Character Avatars. We are adding two new art themes to our ever-growing collection of AI-generated avatars. Meet Western and Pirates-themed character avatars!

• Character Avatars. We made a few improvements to uploading character avatars, better cropping, and better error handling.
• Character Cards. We standardised the look and behaviour of Character Cards across the app.

• Accessibility. We fixed an issue where tapping the TAB key too often would shift the entire app sideways.
• Accessibility. We’ve improved the selected state of a bunch of our components.

We are delighted to unveil our collection of new AI-generated Character Avatars! The first batch of these portraits will contain a HUGE selection of fantasy and sci-fi characters for you to choose from and vintage characters for your next Call of Cthulhu campaign.

• Character Avatar. Our 3D Avatars have been replaced with stunning AI-generated Character Avatars as we revisit character generation ideas in later days to come. Over 500 Avatar Portraits have been added! 😱
• Upload avatar images. We now allow players to upload their avatar images to their character sheets.

Next time you roll some dice, you'll see a lovely little card spring up that tells you what you roll. Tapping the 🔼 or 🔽 button next to the dice menu will control if these cards show up automatically or are hidden.

• Dice. We've added a pop-up card that announces your dice roll. We call them Roll Announcements. 🥳
• Dice. We've updated the look of our 3D dice. These new ones are big 'n crispy.

• Map. Pinging outside the view of other players will show an arrow on the side of the screen.
• 3D Avatars. You can now turn 3D Avatars off in your account settings. We are incredibly excited about our next-gen character creator; more info soon. 😉

• Chat. We fixed an issue where the chat would crash if you tried to open an attachment that was still loading.
• Dice. We fixed a couple of issues with dice rolls misbehaving. Sometimes they should have been hidden, and sometimes they didn't appear. Lots of bugs squashing in our dice smithery.
• Settings. We sometimes asked for your mic or camera permissions even though you had just told us not to do that.
• Settings. We fixed an issue where changing your camera in settings wouldn't change your camera in settings.

We're excited to share a couple of long-awaited improvements to our battle maps experience; try our pings and rotate your tokens!

• Tokens. You can rotate tokens by clicking outside the corners and dragging them around.
• Ping. Double-click on your map or scene to send an aura of orange waves to your fellow players.

• Onboarding. We simplified our signup process by moving email verification into account settings. You'll still need to verify your email, but it doesn't block you from entering the app in your first session.
• Music. We've improved how we handle playlists.

Your favourite smilies, rockets, dances, and animal emojis are now just a click away in our chat. But wait, there is more! You can also search trillions of GIFs to find the perfect reaction to your crit!

• Sessions. We've significantly improved session settings, giving you more control over your mic, speaker, and webcam. We're making these changes to support video calls very soon.
• Character Menu. We rewrote the code around managing characters to eliminate a few nasty bugs.

This week brings a few well-selected improvements to our session experience.

• We've refreshed the look of the top bar to accommodate a few upcoming features.
• The top bar will now better indicate your connection status.
• You'll now enter sessions on mute.
• We'll now let you know if you are talking while on mute.

• Fixed an issue where deleting a character would remove the campaign list.
• Fixed an issue where the "Assign to Player" character sheet action was missing from the lobby.

We've spent the last couple of weeks in summer mode. Lots of refreshing vacation, travelling, and even some ☀️ here in Iceland. Now that we're returning to full steam, we're starting with a flurry of bug fixes and improvements.

We made 17 improvements to the flow of inviting players to campaigns, including:

• GMs can now assign a premade character to a player.
• Invite links now have information about campaigns, even if they are full.
• Logged-in users are no longer taken to the signup page as a part of invites.
• GMs can now remove players from Characters.
• The invite link header now updates the name of the GM if there is a change to the GM.

• Fixed an issue where the campaign name wouldn't leave the top bar after you left the campaign.
• Fixed issues were transferring campaign ownership would still leave the previous owner with magical powers.
• Fixed a thingy when your Avatar head would bounce every time you hit space. A ghost from a different feature in the making.

The Avatar Designer has been released! Head over to the Character Editor and customise your avatars. We are excited to see what you come up with! If you haven't already, join our Discord server and share your creations with the community.

• Avatar Designer. Create and customise your own character avatars.
• Roll from chat. You can now type /roll or /r in chat to trigger a dice roll.
  
  Examples:
  Simple: /r 1d6, /roll 2d20, or /roll 2d6+5
  Drop/Keep: /roll 8d100k4, /roll 8d100kl4, /roll 8d100d4, /roll 8d100dh4
  Target Number (Successes): /roll 3d6>3
  Matching: /roll 12d6mt
  
  
• Premade characters. The game master can now create premade characters from the sheet tool in a campaign.

• Campaign Profile. We now show the joined/invited date of players in context menus.
• Avatars.
  1. New characters will be randomly generated with a random face, neck, skin tone, eyes, and eye-lashes.
  2. Avatar size and placement has been polished in the Character Editor.
  3. Item thumbnails in the Avatar Designer will now load faster.
  4. The colour picker in the Avatar Designer now outlines the selected colours so it's easier to see what colours are selected.
• Changelog. We added pagination so that we only load a few entries simultaneously.
• Website. Improved performance on the www.questportal.com website.
• Tooling. Improved some internal tools.

• Avatar Designer. Fixed an issue where the categories were clipped, or the arrows didn't show up correctly.
• Campaign. Fixed an issue where the Campaign Settings menu didn't close when clicking the Settings button.

Happy Independence day to our American testers. This week included a lot of polish and improvements around our Avatar Designer and the upcoming photo mode.

• Avatar Designer. We're significantly improving how we handle external webcams while previewing your avatars. We've hidden the camera preview while making these improvements. We'll roll this out soon!

• Generic Sheets. Fixed an issue where some text fields didn't appear in some cases.
• Call of Cthulhu Sheets. Fixed some visual glitches.

We have a gift for you! Free adventure packed with scenes and atmosphere. The Lightless Beacon is an awesome Call of Cthulhu scenario that is perfect for new and experienced keepers to run. Take your investigators on a ride! You can copy the scenario from the Home screen slideshow.

Finding the right scene for your adventure is an art and science and often takes careful consideration. However, your party often makes hasty decisions and does something you didn't prepare for. Then it's great you're running on Quest Portal because finding new scenes is easy. Just open the scenes tool and type what you want. We'll be adding many more scenes soon, so the new search feature will help you browse the beautiful art faster.

• Scenes. You can now search scenes blazingly fast. You can even make spelling mistakes, and we'll take a guess.

• We've made some performance and design improvements to all windows in Quest Portal. Modal is the development word for those pop-up windows for things like inviting friends and messing with audio and session settings.

Your scenes and maps can now have multiple different variants. Perfect to quickly jump between day and night or show before and after scenes.

• Character Cards. We've improved the performance of all the little character cards you can find around the app and made some minor visual tweaks that make them easier for the eyes.

• Avatars. Fixed a regression that mirrored face tracking.
• Tokens. Fixed an issue where player tokens were not updated when you changed your avatar.
• Campaigns. Fixed an issue where players could remove Game Masters from campaigns and an issue where the campaign settings dropdown broke the UI.

We're closing the month of May with a series of minor improvements and bug fixes across the app. We are looking forward to a productive and sunny June!

• Home. We've clarified how to "Create a Character" and "Create a Campaign" from the home screen.
• Avatars. Improved backgrounds for photo mode.

• Fifteen minor bug fixes in character sheets, the campaign lobby, the home screen, and the avatar designer.

If you haven't tried it yet, we encourage you to head on over to your account settings and enable the Avatar Designer. With the designer, you can customise your avatar. Now you can also take a photo or a video of the avatar with different backgrounds and share it with your friends. Simply snap a pic and download it and share it on your socials.

• Avatars. Changing your avatar now updates the avatar profile photo on your sheet.

• Scenes. Fixed an issue where music wasn't playing after pausing the music.
• Dice. Fixed a small bug causing the dice not to roll when rolling from the character sheet.
• Campaigns. The campaign profile UI was broken on smaller screens.

We are excited to launch a new experimental feature: The Avatar Designer. We love our avatars, and now you can build your own. We'll constantly improve this feature, so don't hesitate to contact us with your feedback on our Discord server.

• Maps. Resizing tokens is now a lot smoother.

• Avatars. Fixed an issue where Avatars wouldn't load in some cases.
• Dice. Fixed an issue where dice wouldn't appear if you resized your browser window.
• Campaigns. The campaign loading spinner was offset, causing immense internal angst within our design team.

You can now add multiple variants of your scenes and maps. Perfect for changing the atmosphere from day to night as the sun sets over the battlefield. Add as many day/night or fog/sun variants of your Scenes and Maps. Tokens will remain in place. This feature will be in preview this week while we properly test things!

• Tokens. Copy+Paste tokens with ctrl/cmd C, then V. New tokens will appear where your mouse is pointing so you can throw in a whole army in no time.
• Dice. You can now hide rolls from the rest of the players or show them to everyone! No cheating. We also added some nice animations to the dice menu.

• Sessions. We fixed an issue with full-screen mode. It's now full-screen mode and not 95% screen mode.

We're now showing your dice rolls in chat. You can roll with a few clicks through our Dice menu or simply click to roll from Character Sheets!

• Accessibility. We added labels for screen readers to all of our buttons.
• Character Sheets (Call of Cthulhu). Removed character limits for backstories. Some people have gone through a lot.
• Music. We now allow the music to play throughout the app while you are in a session.
• Notes. We’ve improved how we handle lost or orphaned notes; they should be automatically added to your private notes.
• Sessions. We noticed some confusion between leaving campaigns and going back to the campaign lobby, so we made the name and icon of your group in the campaign settings clickable. It's sometimes the small things.
• Sessions. You can now remove players from campaigns during sessions.

• Chat. We turned some bolts and tightened some screws behind the campaign chat.
• Dice. We fixed a few inconsistencies between our 3D dice and a more advanced dice parser that handles everything up to the ninth dimension and math.
• Audio Chat. We fixed some animations for the talking indicator. It should now be more clear who’s talking.
• Music. We fixed a few broken music files.

Feature previews are now shown in your account settings. These features are still under development; they might change at any moment, and data might get lost. We’re doing this because we value early feedback and honestly use our conversations with all of you to guide our daily direction.

• Notes. We’ve put our Notes into feature preview. We love everything about notes, but it’s not stable enough for us to be thrilled with them. We continue to invest heavily in making notes a phenomenal part of the Quest Portal experience.

• Scenes. Cassie kept unintentionally deleting scenes, so we made the delete icon smaller and stuffed it in the bottom right corner.

• Notes. Fixed an issue where you could make a note of a child of itself. These circular references caused the notes to disappear. This can no longer happen.

Tokens! Now you can use tokens in your sessions! Try out the new token tool in the session toolbar.

• Tokens. You can place avatar tokens and/or custom tokens on maps and scenes. Try resizing them.

• Avatars. Bigger and better avatars in session.
• Notes. Duplicating a note also duplicates child notes.
• Notes. Child notes now follow parents when dragging to/from private notes.
• Performance. The initial loading of the app is faster.

• Login. We fixed an edge case where users could get stuck with the loading spinner after login.
• Avatars. When enabling face-tracking, we show an error message if we fail to get the camera.

Now you can add players to your campaign with a simple link and username invites.

• Dice. We've added our dice menu to the Character Editor. We hope it comes in handy when you are rolling for your new character.
• Avatars. We have a new way to show avatars that now includes each character's player.

• Moods. We've removed our Avatar Moods feature. We weren't happy with it and wanted to take another stab at it.

• Avatars. We now fall back to an image of your avatar if we can't render the 3D version for some reason.
• Sessions. We've made some improvements to how we handle refreshing the browser while you are in a session. Now you should reconnect with the audio channel and see the scene that all the other players are on.
• Onboarding. We improved how we handle people who try to log in but should be signing up, both with email and Google.
• Character Sheets. When opening up the Sheet drawer for the first time, we now show a message that explains that you haven't created any characters instead of an error message.
• Music. We've added better error handling to our music player.

• Character Sheets. Fixed issues with bulk editing Call of Cthulhu Character Sheets, disappearing text boxes, loading spinners, and a few more fixes.
• Sessions. Fixed an issue where removing players from a campaign mid-session wouldn't kick them from the session. Now they should be properly kicked.
• Dice. We've fixed bugs around rerolling; the button sometimes didn’t appear.
• Dice Cards. Fixed an issue where the card displaying the result of a roll didn’t display the results of the roll. One job!
• Sessions. Fixed an issue where in some cases, you didn't see other players in a session and another issue where Firefox users couldn't unmute themselves.
• Campaign Invites. We fixed multiple issues around our invite flows, including better handling of resetting invite links, displaying messages around full campaigns, and accepting invites to campaigns when you are already logged in.
• Avatars. We fixed an issue where the facial expressions of your avatar didn't go through to everyone.

This week welcomes a ton of improvements to our Character Sheets. First, we've added a super simple character sheet for any system. This sheet emphasises role-playing with fields for the character backstory. You can also add some fun facts if you are in the mood. Second, we brought the excellent new dice to Character Sheets. You'll see beautiful 3D dice fly onto the screen when rolling from the character sheet.

• Simple Character Sheets with age, pronouns, backstory, and fun facts.
• Characters Sheets now roll with our new dice roller.

• Character Sheets. We added the player's name to the character sheet for easy reference.
• Character Sheets. Your Character Sheet will now always be a the top, followed by other players. Any unclaimed characters will stay at the bottom.
• Character Sheets. The windows for Skills and Weapons now save when you click outside.
• Character Sheets. The text boxes are now easier on the eyes.

• Chat. We fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the chat to get stuck on a spinner.
• Scenes. Fixed a similar issue that caused scenes to get stuck on a spinner after a refresh.
• Character Sheets. Luck, Hit Points, and Sanity disappeared from the top of some character sheets. We fixed the underlying issue, but let us know if you've hit this issue and it's still broken.
• Character Sheets. We fixed a nasty little bugger around removing pregens from campaigns. In some weird circumstances, it would cause the removal of other playing characters.
• Character Sheets. We fixed an issue that allowed players to unclaim characters they didn't own.

We've added a simple dice menu with the basic seven-dice set. Tap your dice and watch them bounce around in beautiful 3D. This is our first step, so we look forward to your feedback!

• Notes. Child Notes are now sorted by creation time.
• Sessions. Long names are now much better.

• Scenes. Fixed an edge case where the save button in edit scenes would go out of view.
• Sessions. Fixed an issue where people that joined before others would sometimes not appear in the top bar.
• Campaigns. Fixed some issues when people declined or left campaigns and had a hard time getting back.
• Notes. Fixed an issue when we incorrectly attributed a new child note to the parent notes creator.

We added a new tab in our Call of Cthulhu Character Sheets. The Possessions tab helps you keep track of your cash, assets, your treasured possessions, and the gear you have.

• Early Access. We are starting to beta test with more users. Feel free to invite your friends!
• Website. We updated our website at questportal.com with more information about what we are doing.

• Notes. We now label notes as deleted and hide them instead of deleting them. This will allow us to restore deleted notes in our admin system, so ping us if you exedentally delete something. We’ll make this more accessible in the future.
• Character Sheets. We saw some issues with sheets created before March 15th. We can fix those characters behind the scenes so ping us with the URL of your character, and we’ll get them sorted out.
• Onboarding. We added a notification for people using browsers other than Chrome, letting them know that we are better tested on Chrome. We are, however, fixing a bunch of Safari and Firefox issues now.
• Accounts. We added the ability to delete your account. We hope that it will be our least used feature.
• Performance. We added methods to reduce the size of images based on your screen size so it will not affect the visual quality of images.
• Dice. Lots of small improvements with our dice menu and cards; we sum up the rolls, show individual rolls if you are rolling more than one die, show the results from highest to lowest (like the menu), and now the dice fade out nicely.

• Avatars. We added notification prompts around missing permissions or missing cameras.
• Campaigns. We fixed an issue where if you deleted the name of a campaign, you couldn’t add a new name.
• Scenes. We fixed some issues in the full-screen mode that didn’t allow you to enable/disable avatar tracking.
• Dice. We fixed an issue with the dice menu on Safari.
• Character Sheets. We fixed an issue where updates from a Game Master didn’t update the character sheet for players in real time. We’re all about real-time!
• Notes. Fixed some issues around dragging notes into favourites.

Do you have a favourite campaign? You can now reorder your campaigns any way you want. Just drag 'n drop them in place on the left-side navigation bar.

• Performance. Last week was all about performance improvements. Speed is a feature that is often overlooked. Please let us know if you find something slow, and we'll tackle it immediately!
• Scenes: We've implemented Pan and Zoom on scenes during sessions. Possibly a hint for a bigger upcoming feature ;)
• Scenes. Music used to be required when adding new scenes. Now, it's more of a friendly recommendation.

• Character Sheets. We fixed a crash that happened when creating a new Character immediately after joining as a new user.
• Sessions. We squashed a bug that caused the app to go bonkers when you added a new character in the middle of a session.
• Chat. We fixed an issue where we would show you a spinner, not the chat.
• Scenes. Fixed some nasty little resizing bugs.

Happy Monday, everyone.

We’ve been hard at work squashing bugs and enhancing the experience of Quest Portal. We’ve got some exciting new features in the works, but until we can release them, we have some improvements and fixes for you:

• We switched all players to using Display Names instead of Usernames within the app. More expressive and fun! Change your Display Name in Account Settings.
• Players can now easily go back to their campaigns after creating characters. A big purple button does the trick.
• Players can hover over the character avatar on their character sheets to get the option to edit the character info and visuals in the Character Creator.
• We improved the way the top bar scales and cleaned it up a bit.
• We made a bunch of usability improvements to the Notes feature. Most notably: Players now get a warning when moving notes between private and campaign. Same when deleting a note. Players can now open a parent note without selecting it.
• Players can now right-click some buttons and links to open them in new tabs. Try it with campaigns in the Navigation bar.
• We added campaign thumbnails to the character cards in the character overview.
• We improved loading states and removed loading flashes that could appear between views.

• We fixed a lot of bugs in Notes. It’s much better now!
• Fixed an issue where a campaign sometimes disappeared from the navigation bar if a character was removed.
• We fixed an issue where some players were sometimes unable to delete characters.
• Fixed some visual bugs on Safari.
• Fixed an issue where some Keeper cards got duplicated in Campaign Lobby.
• We fixed some typos. Those are important too.
• A number of smaller fixes should make your experience better.

We've added a text chat that's now available to all of your campaigns. You can access the campaign chat in the lobby and within sessions. You'll even see a nice red notification bubble for unread messages in your campaigns.

• Avatars. Your fellow adventurers can now see your expressions when you've enabled face-tracking.
• Notes. Setting the width of your notes is now friendlier, and we should remember your preference, as friends do.

• Session. Fixed issues with Mute and are hunting for more tricky bugs in that arena.
• Investigator Sheets. Fixed a few white screen crashes.
• Investigator Sheets. Deleting and duplicating sheets should now work as intended.
• Investigator Sheets. Claiming a character no longer removes the character.

We're happy to show all the Call of Cthulhu players our beautiful Investigator Sheets. You can now add your characteristics, skills, conditions, and weapons. Click to roll and have fun!

We've made multiple quality-of-life improvements to our Notes and added a new paint code.

• Embeds from YouTube and other sites show up in notes.
• Improved tables.
• Better formatting options.
• The headings look nicer.
• Better scrolling.

• Improvements to editing your scenes.
• Long scene names are now truncated correctly.

We've added a much-requested feature to help all the organised Game Masters. Now you can add notes underneath other notes. Just click the plus sign next to the title of the "parent" note, and a "children" note will appear below.

• Opening the app is now much faster after some behind-the-scenes updates.
• It's now possible to edit scenes you've previously created.
• Profile photos and backgrounds are now much faster to load.
• It's no longer possible to close your profile photo window while uploading the photo.
• It's now more apparent where you are in the app, as we added a border around the Home and Characters tabs on the left side.
• Leaving campaigns now contains fewer bugs.

Signed up with a temporary profile photo that you have been eager to update? Fear not - Account settings are live! You can now upload your newest selfie, change your username and pick out a newly added display name - all accessible from the profile menu in the top right corner of the app.

• Avatars are now bigger and nicer looking.
• Multiple improvements to the Session Top Bar.
• We found a memory leak in sessions and plugged it.
• We went on Safari and fixed a few bugs related to Avatars on Safari.
• A couple of fixes for selecting Characters.
• Fixed the carousel arrows on the Home screen.
• Creating a campaign while in used to end the session. It no longer does.
• Opening changelog notes is now easier as we no longer move the "see more" link to a random place.

This week brings a bunch of improvements to our signup and onboarding flows. Inviting new users has been shipped to a subset of people. Let us know if you would like to add more people to your campaign, and we will turn this on for you.

Now people can join with emails and all the bells and whistles that go along with that, such as email verification and confirmations.

• Correctly routing users when logging out.
• Improvements to Sentry, a service we use to detect and fix issues rapidly.

We at Quest Portal wish you all a Happy New Year! We are very excited about 2022 and all the big changes coming to the app this year.

Over the holidays, we made some improvements to the app. Here's a summary of the key things:

• Onboarding is now much cleaner.
• You can now open your character sheet from the Character Builder, the Campaign Home, and in a session.
• You can duplicate campaigns and keep all your notes and scenes. This makes it easy to keep a master copy of campaigns you run repeatedly.
• Bug fixes to campaigns and notes.

The coming weeks will be very busy for the team. We've got big features coming up.

• Highlight your most used characteristics, stats, weapons, and notes.
• A card pops out and tells you the results from the roll.
• Roll with multiple options; regular, hard, and extreme, and the ability to add a bonus or penalty dice.
• Roll from the command bar. Hit cmd+K, type the name of the skill, and select roll from there.

We have polished our new user creation, and onboarding flows in festive preparation for our alpha testers.

• Added an email/password option
• Added deep linking. Send someone a link to a certain campaign, and we will remember that through the new user creation process.
• Pick a unique username. We will check our existing records and let you know if it is available.

• Changing the GM of a campaign is now possible. It's behind a feature flag so ping us if you need this feature.
• Some bug fixes for the duplication of campaigns.
• Deleting a character had some issues that we fixed.
• Loads of nice visual improvements in campaigns, home, and character apps. 💅

We've created a home for your campaigns. Everyone can create a campaign and invite their friends to join. The creator becomes the Game Master with a few added admin benefits, such as changing the name, icon, cover photo, and player management.

Please let us know how you like this new home for your campaign and what we can add or change to improve it!

• A new and improved signup flow that works across devices.
• Improved routing makes you more likely to be taken to the right place.
• Leaving sessions now takes you to the campaign home.
• Game Masters can now remove players from campaigns and delete them.
• Players can leave campaigns.

Want to take some notes during a session but don't want to lose your immersion? Now you can write and read your notes in the Notes tool. What's even better, you can share those notes with the group by creating group/campaign notes that are shared.

Notes are a handy block-style editor, similar to Notion, that allows you to create and rearrange blocks as you see fit.

The notes tool is available to game masters and players. Don't forget to have your favourite notes handy by favouriting them!

Notes are a central feature in Quest Portal that will get a lot of love in the coming months.

We're super excited to announce our Scenes feature. Role-playing is about collaborative storytelling, and setting the scene where those stories unfold is important. We've created Scenes to feel like a slideshow. The game master can easily navigate between the different scenes with the visuals and the atmosphere already attached and autoplay.

Scenes are a game master tool and won't be available for players to see.

A scene is a narrative beat in your story, a backdrop to a collection of actions, a battlemap, or generic background. It's whatever visual the game master wants to show the players while the story is being told. Each scene comprises a visual and, optionally a soundscape/music. This way, when you change scenes, the atmosphere changes as well. As we build out Scenes, this feature will start to include more visuals you can show your players.

You can create your scene by uploading a visual and attaching your music. Or, you can use the hundreds of pre-made scenes in the Scenes tool.

We've partnered with many creators in the TTRPG space to provide us with background art, battlemaps, music and soundscapes.