Play Release 131!

Greetings Fellow Avatars!

Release 131 goes live October 31st at 10:30 AM CDT.

Welcome! The Catnip Games development team marks this monthly release of Shroud of the Avatar with new content and improvements. For Release 131 (R131), we offer dark places to brighten or, maybe, to keep dark.

For those wishing to participate in any community activities, upcoming one-time and recurring community events have been announced! Be sure to also review the Player Guide and Known Issues for additional information on recent changes and upcoming fixes.

News Announcements

Community Updates

 

Dungeon Delve

I have started a revamp of the Player Dungeon Kit. Last month, we released a new room and this month we will add seven more! A good number of the existing rooms are named for the adventure scene they were taken from, so as most of the new rooms are basements converted to dungeon rooms, these rooms will have the “Cellar” keyword in their names.

As is our standard, not everything needed to play the game needs to cost money. Of the eight new rooms added in R130 and R131, only three are purchasable through the Crown Store. Recipes and blueprints for some will be obtained in loot and others will be located on in-game-gold merchants. We will continue to develop in this manner going forward.

Two of the new rooms are small pass-through areas or antechambers. These were specifically requested so players could create hallways with niches or vestibules. There are also some significant features to note in these, as well as the other new rooms: hallways stubs are not present for every connection! This will allow players to create a tighter maze of rooms and even create scenarios where the adventurer may not notice moving from one room to another. Players building a dungeon will, of course, need to be mindful of rooms that may clip into other rooms when connecting them. If this happens, then a hallway piece should be placed. I will be looking to create hallway stubs (4 meters long instead of 8 meters or 16 meters) to allow for more flexibility when using these new smaller rooms.

The best is yet to come: we have published a few pieces in this update that contain doors and sub-sections that make the piece into an expanded number of rooms. In the future, I will be looking to add breakaway walls and secret doors et cetera, a popular wishlist item. I will also be converting all of the basements into dungeon rooms including the massive Castle Five-Story Basement!

We are currently working on organizing the inventory of dungeon sets and rooms to determine what pieces are missing and what bugs need to be fixed. This also will allow us to correct any inconsistencies in naming and points.

Scottie has been assisting with making new dungeon components that will allow for more interesting designs. Some of these dungeon kit parts have been used in the new rooms released this month. They allow me to make smaller rooms and to convert other things like basements and adventure dungeons into rooms without rocks poking out all over. My goal is to refine even some of the old rooms that need too much void space.

My intention is to continue to fix and/or add new rooms, leading to a larger release of a new adventure zone dungeon and other goodies! As always, please look for testing directives: these help us test bug fixes on QA as well as test new rooms.

New pieces on Bookseller Merchants:

  • Stone Dungeon Room – Cellar Antechamber [1 Floor] (2×1) – 2 Conn

    • Turn the triangles for more pictures.

  • Stone Dungeon Room – Cellar Antechamber [1 Floor] (3×1) – 2 Conn
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  • Stone Dungeon Room – Row Lot Cellar [1 Floor] (2×1) – 1 Conn
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  • Stone Dungeon Room – Village Lot Cellar [1 Floor] (2×2) – 1 Conn
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New pieces in loot:

  • Stone Dungeon Room – Village Lot Cellar [2 Floor] (2×2) – 4 Conn
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New pieces in the Crown Store:

  • Stone Dungeon Room – City Lot Arena [1 Floor] (4×5) – 3 Conn
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  • Stone Dungeon Room – City Lot Cellar [1 Floor] (4×6) – 4 Conn
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– Ravalox

 

Holiday Season

This release is our last official content release for 2024. However, as the dungeon revamping effort continues, some new dungeon rooms will likely make their way into the next two releases.

We plan to have an extended livestream in December along with a new pop-up dungeon (like the chicken room) for our eleven-year anniversary. December will also be time for the next quarterly special bonus 10K COTO pack item.

We will not be continuing the dubious tradition of the short release schedule in November and December this year. The release date will still need to be shifted by a day or two to avoid Thanksgiving and Christmas, but there is an undo strain on a team as small as ours to try to complete the required minimum work needed for a release in such a short time. It is no coincidence that the last two months of the year are for bug fixes and the first content release is at the end of January.

As always, thank you for supporting the game and subscribing. More info to come!

– Ravalox

 

Release 131 Patch Notes

Below are a list of the updates that are live as of Release 131 in the game of Shroud of the Avatar! R131 is a content month. Content, additional improvements, and bug fixes are inbound for R132 next month. We hope you enjoy the changes that are live today as of Release 131!

Crafting, Decoration, Gear, & Inventory Item Changes:

  • Added a pair of seasonal deco pieces to a pair of daily Castle Atos quest rewards. SOTA-71845
  • A recipe for a Hanging Potted Dead Ivy decoration has been added to housing decoration merchants in Verdantis. SOTA-71752
  • Extended the lower end of available scaling for the slice of pumpkin pie.
  • Attempted (again) to fix iron wall lamps. SOTA-68763
  • Fixed a mesh error when the craftable flute is placed as deco.
  • Renamed an arrow bundle that can be picked up in the world to avoid confusing it with individual arrows and prevented the bundle from stacking so multiples don’t disappear when players break one down. SOTA-72307
  • Removed the ability to package for trade the special contents of the R106 login reward bundle. SOTA-72284

World and Quest Changes:

  • Seasonal Monsters: Pumpkin Head has had enough of terrorizing Drachvald for the year and Krampus will return to East Sanctus Forest and some Snowy Mountain Road Encounters on November 16th.
  • Seasonal Monsters: With the departure of the comet, the aether creatures will go into hibernation on November 27th.
  • Brittany Fields, Spindelskog, and Tanglemire: Added a collider to several large dead trees to prevent tree-climbing. SOTA-68033
  • Central Brittany: Moved a skeleton’s collider, vfx, and audio source to match its visual position in the castle. SOTA-72326
  • Etceter: Fixed a stuck spot caused by some barrels. SOTA-72314
  • Etceter Crag Mines: Fixed a piece of scaffolding that was causing errors. SOTA-72317
  • Mud: Hung a lantern that had been placed on an operable chest. SOTA-72305
  • Northwood: Swapped non-flowered hedge pieces for flowered ones at the Shrine of Sacrifice. SOTA-71966
  • Owl’s Head: Added a Mojito memorial on the bridge.
  • Penmawr Island: Updated some collision on large rocks near a treasure chest to be more form-fitting. SOTA-72321
  • Perennial Trail: Fixed a stuck spot between several large rocks. SOTA-72315
  • The Sirens Foothills: Fixed a destructible crate. Fixed the collision on a giant statue. SOTA-72312, SOTA-72311
  • Solace Bridge Outskirts: Updated the logic that completes the “Seek Private Garridon” task.
  • South Broken Road: Fixed collision on a rock wall that was blocking ore nodes. SOTA-72306
  • Tenebris Harbor: Several floating walls in the shipyard area now touch the ground. SOTA-72313
  • Ulfheim: After unlocking the additional entrances, players should no longer see both a default and Southwest listing (because they lead to the same place). SOTA-70966
  • Ulfheim: If there are wolves in the waves within the Grand Hall battle, there will no longer be any humans labeled “Mistreated Wolf.” SOTA-72322
  • Ulfheim: Fixed a ladder in the upper village that had a teleport target under the world. SOTA-72324
  • Vertas: Blocked a scene escape at the South Exit.
  • Vikland: Updated one of Liva’s “hello” responses. SOTA-72310
  • Yew: Fixed z-fighting on a raised platform. SOTA-72252

For every present you take, a bone I shall break!

 

Player-Owned Town Changes:

  • Cassiopeia: Upgraded to Village from Hamlet.

Player-Owned Dungeon and Basement Changes:

  • Two new dungeon cellar recipes and blueprints are now at bookseller merchants everywhere with two more to follow in an upcoming patch.
  • One new dungeon cellar recipe and blueprint can soon be found in Brittany Sewers after an upcoming patch.
  • The Pristine Spider Room is now actually pristine. SOTA-71896, SOTA-71757
  • Added another way to exit the prison cells in the City Arena Basement. There was one already, but we have too many prisoners! SOTA-17987

 

Latest News and Q&A in the First November Livestream

The post-release Community Livestream is Friday, November 1st at 4PM CT on Twitch! Join Stephen “Ravalox” Reinen and other members of the development team for a 1-hour community livestream!

To enter the prize drawings, type “snacks or thwacks!” into any in-game chat channel OR make a purchase on the website Add-On Store.

Please submit questions using in-game universal chat by typing “askadev” before your question. We’ll do our best to answer these questions live on the stream. Watch on Twitch, Friday at 4PM CT!

Members of the Shroud of the Avatar development team stream on twitch.tv/shroudoftheavatar — be sure to get the channel on follow for notifications so you can join us right as we go live! Also, if you’ve missed our latest streams, check out our archive of content at our YouTube Channel. Like! Follow! Subscribe! Prizes!!!

Don’t forget to also join the Shroud of the Avatar team and community over on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ShroudoftheAvatar/ and on Discord at https://discord.gg/shroudoftheavatar.

 

Sales and Bonus Events

For our harvest sale from October 30th through November 8th:

  • Crown Store sales will be 30% off.
  • Crowns of the Obsidians will be 20% off.
  • Deed Upgrades will be 20% off.
  • POT Upgrades via COTOs will be 20% off.
    (Contact support to initiate a POT upgrade and pay with COTOs.)

 

Release 131 Subscriber Login Rewards

Ah, fall! Gold leaves will soon turn brown but, while they last, time to have your friends over for dinner! The Rewards Program login items for Release 131 are a Fall Apple Tree, three Ornate Hanging Potted Dead Ivys, and an Animal Spawner, Banded Turkey with Barley!

Subscribers to the Rewards Program must log in during Release 131 to receive these special login items.

The Shroud of the Avatar Rewards Program lets you earn the best rate on purchasing Crowns AND receive monthly reward items! For a low monthly price, you will receive the following:

Tier 1  $9 (plus tax)  900 COTOs and 3 Obsidian potions monthly
Tier 2 $18 (plus tax) 2000 COTOs and 6 Obsidian potions monthly
Tier 3 $27 (plus tax) 3500 COTOs and 9 Obsidian potions monthly

  • 900 Crowns of the Obsidians every month
  • Monthly Login Reward Items (about 3 per month)
  • Exclusive Title every 3 months
    • 3 Months: Keeper of the Faith
    • 6 Months: Keeper of the Word
    • 9 Months: Keeper of the Vow
    • 12 Months: Keeper of the Flame
    • 15 Months: Keeper of the Oath
    • 18 Months: Keeper of the Pledge
    • 21 Months: Keeper of the Bond
    • 24 Months: Keeper of the Promise
    • 27 Months: Keeper of the Covenant
    • 30 Months: Keeper of Countless Devotions
    • 33 Months: Keeper of Thirty-Three Corpions
    • 36 Months: Keeper of Thirty-Six Serpents
    • 39 Months: Keeper of Thirty-Nine Tulips
    • 42 Months: Keeper of Forty-Two Roses
    • 45 Months: Keeper of Forty-Five Lilies
    • 48 Months: Keeper of Forty-Eight Daisies
    • 51 Months: Keeper of Fifty-One Staves
    • 54 Months: Keeper of Fifty-Four Daggers
    • 57 Months: Keeper of Fifty-Seven Arrows
    • 60 Months: Keeper of Sixty Swords
    • 63 Months: Keeper of Sixty-Three Coins
    • 66 Months: Keeper of Sixty-Six Gems
    • 69 Months: Keeper of Sixty-Nine Jewels
    • 72 Months: Keeper of Seventy-Two Goblets
    • 75 Months: Keeper of Seventy-Five Rings
    • 78 Months: Keeper of Seventy-Eight Amulets
  • Pick any Dye 12-Pack every 6 months
  • Pick any three (or six, or nine, for higher tiers) of these 7 Obsidian Potions every month:
    • Potion of Capacity: Increases carrying capacity
    • Potion of Conservation: Reduces reagent use chance
    • Potion of Expedience: Swift gathering on all gathering skills
    • Potion of Precision: Increases Meticulous Collection to all gathering skills
    • Potion of Preservation: Reduces armor and weapon damage
    • Potion of Reclamation: Increases Salvage and Repair to all production skills
    • Potion of Stamina: Decreases focus use from sprinting
  • While subscribed to the rewards program, players also receive these special bonuses:
    • Obsidian Potions are significantly more powerful!
    • 24 Additional Deck Slots!

 

November Login Reward

Not everyone is cut out for horticulture, but don’t let that stop you. Each account that logs in during the month of November will receive a one-time gift of a Tabletop Dead Oak Tree.

 

Crown Store Updates

New in the crown store for today’s release:

  • Green Potion Cauldron
  • Ceiling Orange Paper Lantern String 3-Pack
  • Dead Body, Kobold Male 1
    This corpse is a public cache chest.
  • Dead Oak Tree 3-Pack

  • Epic Dead Oak Tree
  • Dead Ivy Covered Stone Fence
  • Tall Dead Ivy Covered Stone Fence
  • Climbing Dead English Ivy Set
  • Animal Spawner, Turkey with Barley
  • Animal Spawner, Speckled Turkey with Barley
  • Animal Spawner, White Turkey with Barley
  • Somber Painting Set
  • Stone Dungeon Room – City Lot Arena [1 Floor] (4×5) – 3 Conn

…for November 1st:

  • Tabletop Dead Oak Tree 3-Pack

…for November 8th:

  • Ornate Hanging Potted Dead Ivy 3-Pack
  • Fall Apple Tree
  • Animal Spawner, Banded Turkey with Barley

…and in an upcoming patch:

  • Stone Dungeon Room – City Lot Cellar [1 Floor] (4×6) – 4 Conn

The Spooky Seasonal store items are available through Monday November 4th:

List of Spooky Seasonal items:
  • Day of the Dead Mask
  • Day of the Dead Mask with Top Hat
  • Day of the Dead Mask with Veil
  • Day of the Dead Colorful Mask
  • Day of the Dead Colorful Mask with Top Hat
  • Day of the Dead Colorful Mask with Veil
  • Day of the Dead Mask 6-Pack
  • Jack O’ Lantern Mask 2015
  • Jack O’ Lantern Glowing Mask 2015
  • Jack O’ Lantern 6-Pack 2015
  • Jack O’ Lantern Mask 2016
  • Jack O’ Lantern Glowing Mask 2016
  • Jack O’ Lantern 6-Pack 2016
  • Jack O’ Lantern Mask 2017
  • Jack O’ Lantern Glowing Mask 2017
  • Jack O’ Lantern 6-Pack 2017
  • Jack O’ Lantern Mask 2018
  • Jack O’ Lantern Glowing Mask 2018
  • Jack O’ Lantern 6-Pack 2018
  • Rotten Jack O’ Lantern Mask
  • Pale Scarecrown Mask
  • Blood Spurting Headless Mask
  • Ornate Scythe
  • Ornate Scythe Pattern Pack
  • Ornate Spider Legs Cloak
  • Spider Web Cloak
  • Woven Spider Web Cloak
  • Breathe Spiders Emote
  • Juggle Jack O’ Lanterns Emote
  • Juggle Severed Arms Emote
  • Juggle Severed Heads Emote
  • Juggle Zombie Arms Emote
  • Juggle Zombie Heads Emote
  • Puke Blood Emote
  • Rain Spiders Emote
  • Dead Tree with Spider Webs 6-Pack
  • Giant Grim Reaper Statue with Magic Portal Dungeon Entrance
  • Giant Lich Statue with Magic Portal Dungeon Entrance
  • Ornate Giant Grim Reaper Statue with Magic Portal Dungeon Entrance
  • Undead Specimen Vats Set
  • Zombie Cat
  • Zombie Dog
  • Zombie Raven
  • Spooky Wax Cylinder Pack
  • Pumpkin Themed Rectangle Halloween 2023 Gift Box 3-Pack
  • Ghost Themed Round Halloween 2023 Gift Box 3-Pack
  • Cat Themed Square Halloween 2023 Gift Box 3-Pack

The Fall Holidays store items will be available from Friday November 1st through Monday December 9th:

List of Fall Holidays items:
  • Fall Wreath 2017
  • Fall Wreath 2019
  • Ornate Cornucopia 2014
  • Ornate Cornucopia 2015
  • Ornate Cornucopia 2016
  • Ornate Cornucopia 2017
  • Turkey Decoration Pet
  • Banded Turkey Decoration Pet
  • Speckled Turkey Decoration Pet
  • White Turkey Decoration Pet
  • Turkey Statue
  • Turkey Statue (2022)

 

Bug Brigade & Testing Directives!

The Bug Brigade was established to improve how the community and the development team work together to improve the game. Since the Brigade’s inception, the program has gone through a number of changes and was eventually placed on hold. The stability of the game is as important to the development team as it is to the players, therefore the program was revamped and was relaunched.

The Brigade has been up and running and the volunteers (Alley Oop, Echondas, Flair Minamoto, and Justyn) are in a good rhythm for verifying and submitting bugs to the developers. If you have reported a bug that has not yet been addressed, please be patient while the backlog is being worked. The Brigade is working diligently to clean up the backlog of bug reports posted by players on the forums.

Every month, a considerable amount of development time will be spent working many of the verified bugs which have been submitted to the team by the Bug Brigade. This focused effort on bug fixes would not be possible without the recent efforts of the Bug Brigade. Please take the time to thank these bug hunting aficionados when you encounter them in your travels!

In turn, the development team would like to express a big thank you to the Bug Hunters! These community members are doing a fantastic job bringing so many bug reports to the team, and they’re doing it in a way which makes the process smooth and efficient. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Much improvement has been noticed by the development team and we’re so very excited to see the program’s continued success!

The development team would also like to thank all of those who take time to participate in QA Testing Directives. Thanks to your hard work and dedication, many issues and bugs can be identified and fixed prior to content going to the Live Server! Keep up the great work! For those that wish to participate in future bug hunting endeavors, please check the forums regularly for upcoming QA Testing Directives.

Don’t forget, the Bug Brigade is open to all players in good standing and bug rewards are SWEET! They will be awarded on a monthly progression basis with only minimal requirements to qualify. The available rewards to receive in progression via qualifying participation are as follows:

  • Antennae Head Gear and Forum Title 1: “Bug Hunter”
  • Single Ant Cloak
  • Lady Bug Backpack
  • Bug Painting A and In-Game Title 2: “Associate of Aphids”
  • Ant Farm
  • Insect Leg Table
  • Many Ants Cloak and In-Game Title 3: “Bachelor of Beetles”
  • Bug Painting B
  • Bug Sprayer and /bugspray Emote
  • Bug Painting C and In-Game Title 4: “Master of Moths”
  • Butterfly Chair
  • Corpion Chair (Pictured Below)
  • Yellow Fireflies VFX and In-Game Title 5: “Doctor of Dragonflies”
  • Hacked Oracle Flyer
  • Giant Butterfly Pet (Blue)
  • Butterfly Mask
  • Dragonfly pet
  • Fairy Wings
  • Monarch Butterfly Pet
  • Dragonfly Wings
  • Hacked Oracle Crawler
  • Blue Butterfly VFX
  • Orange Fireflies VFX
  • Orange Butterfly VFX
  • Autumn Fairy Wings
  • Green Fireflies VFX
  • Landing Flies 3-pack
  • Blue Fireflies
  • Mounted Ladybug Specimen
  • Mounted Rhinoceros Beetle Specimen
  • Mounted Firebug Specimen
  • Mounted Diving Bug Specimen
  • Mounted Asian Ladybug Specimen
  • Swallowtail Butterfly Pet
  • Mounted Potato Beetle
  • Silver Bug Sprayer
  • Mounted Maybug Specimen
  • Mounted Stag Beetle Specimen
  • Mounted Hissing Cockroach Specimen
  • Yellow Ladybug Backpack
  • Baby Black Widow Spider Decoration Pet
  • Red Fireflies
  • Baby Green & Yellow Spider Pet
  • Purple Fireflies
  • Black Butterfly Mask
  • Bug Painting D
  • Mounted Minotaur Beetle
  • Gold Bug Sprayer
  • Baby Black & Orange Spider Pet
  • Orange Butterfly Chair
  • Common Bug VFX (Choose One)
  • White Butterfly Mask
  • Golden Dragonfly Pet
  • Bug Painting E
  • Common Bug Pets (Choose One)
  • Purple Butterfly Chair

If you’ve come to think of Shroud of the Avatar as your home, sign up and help make New Britannia a better place to live! To learn more about joining the Bug Brigade, please read the announcement thread by Ravalox in the main Bug/Feedback forums.

 

Streaming Program

Streamers of Shroud of the Avatar can participate in a program to showcase the game and be rewarded for their efforts. Any player in good standing who wishes to be included in the Streaming Program can contact Laney via in-game mail with their Character Name and Twitch Channel information. If you have already signed up for the program in the past, fear not: you’re on the list and you don’t need to reapply.

Streaming Rewards Program participants must adhere to our Terms of Service (TOS) and Community Rules while Streaming Shroud of the Avatar.

Streaming Rewards Program participants must stream at least 10 hours of Shroud of the Avatar ACTIVE game play to remain in the program with reward accrual.

Streamers will receive a one-time digital reward of in-game items after meeting the program’s requirements: Streamer’s Cloak, Streamer’s Camera, and the LIVESTREAMING title.

Rules:

  • To qualify for Streaming Rewards, each streamer must continue to meet the minimum requirements for 60 days after application.
  • To accrue additional rewards, Streamers must stream SotA a minimum of 10 hours per month, tallied on the 1st day of each month, to remain in the program.

Monthly Streaming Bundles:

On the 1st of each month, qualifying streamers will be eligible to receive 50 Streaming Bundles. Bundles will be sent out to Streamers via in-game mail.

A few things you need to know:

  • Streaming Bundles are intended to be given away to stream viewers, not consumed by the streamer.
  • Streamers are not allowed to put paywalls in place for the Streaming Bundles. (For example, giving away Streaming Bundles once the stream reaches a certain number of bits, subscriptions, or donations).

Other Items of Note:

  • Streamers in the program will be included in the SotAbot StreamPop function, appearing in the player-streaming channel in Discord.
  • An optional fan graphics kit is available to the participating streamers as well as all players of Shroud of the Avatar, which includes graphics, overlays and other material.
  • Streamers must be actively playing the game during their streams. Being away from the keyboard (AFK) for short periods is acceptable. If Twitch indicates the streamer is playing SotA but they are streaming other content or a timeout/login screen, they risk being removed from the program.

 

Upcoming Release Dates

Be sure to check out the Upcoming Events page for spotlighted events plus links to various areas to post or find events on our forums. The upcoming 2024 Release Schedule is as follows:

  • This Release 131 – October 31 (Content)
  • Release 132 – November 28 (Quality of Life)
  • Release 133 – December 26 (Quality of Life)

 

Community Events & Resources

Greetings event holders and event attendees! So many fun and exciting events are available in the upcoming weeks. Be sure to get out there and participate, make some new friends, perhaps make some great emote, recipe, or gear trades, or get some adventuring and role-playing into your mix! Here are spotlighted events or updated community resources that we’ve noticed popping up lately on the official forums.

Recurring Events:

  • Lightbringer Isle Auction: This newly-resumed auction will be held by Hemnu Lightbringer the Sunday after each Release at 2000 EST / 1900 CST / 0100 BST / 2400 UTC.
  • The Nebula Time Trials are intended as a fun competition amongst players, but also a way for players to compare builds, playstyles, learn from one another and just generally have fun together. Each trial will consist of a challenge along the lines of “kill this mob” or “complete this quest” and while prizes will be awarded based on completion time, everyone who enters will receive something. Check this main post for links to the individual trials as they occur.
  • Monthly Release Fishing Contests: This is a rotating, multi-location contest sponsored and organised by Rajazel, The Town Museum and its Governor Diablotine.
  • Trash to Treasure Dropped Items Turn-In: Introducing Trash to Treasure 2.0! Some unscrupulous fella has been flooding all of New Britannia with junk: Headdresses, Wings, Backpacks, assorted miscellany of every sort. It’s time to clean this trash up and so a bounty has been placed on all gear crafted by Coswald Dirthmire that is turned in each contest period!
  • Mad Splatter Tea Party: One Sunday of each quarter, Lily Byrd hosts a tea party in her back garden at her home in Jade Valley. There are drinks and eats, there is sometimes music, there are often party games with prizes, and sometimes they just sit and talk about life in Novia. All are welcome to join but this is a role playing event tea party: please come as your avatar!

Community Calendars:

  • Avatars Radio Calendar: Just when are all those talented DJ’s and streamers broadcasting? Don’t just guess, check out there very helpful calendar! Never again will you wonder when’s the best time to tune in!
  • NBNN Calendar: This calendar provides a great schedule for NBNN and WRFB programing as well as many other community events. If you’re a fan of the Laz & Jack show or even if you’re hoping to catch them in action for the first time, this is the calendar for you!

Community Event Resources: Here are some fantastic resources for tracking down community events or posting your own events. Become involved! Create! Explore! Make friends! But most of all, have fun!

  • One-Time Community Events Forum: Sometimes events happen only a single time, so you’ll not want to miss out on these events as they occur. Check out the forums routinely to spot these!
  • Recurring Community Events Forum: Some events occur on weekly or monthly schedules which are a great way to routinely meet up with friends and to make new ones. Be sure to check this forum frequently for new events or time changes to existing ones.
  • Player Event Trophies and Special Item Requests: Would you like to request a special trophy or renamed item for a player event you’ve created? Head on over to this thread to see what’s available and to obtain more information about request procedures.
  • Player Radio Station Forum: If you want to check out the latest and greatest from our in-game radio stations, go to the radio stations forum! If you’re a DJ, be sure to advertise your time slot and venue in this forum.
  • Player Livestreams & Videos Forum: If you’re searching for a Shroud Streamer to watch, head on over to the streamer forum! If you are a live streamer for Shroud of the Avatar, be sure to advertise your Shroud stream by posting in this forum.
  • Town Directory Forum: Want to find a town to live in or get your town listed in the directory, head over to the forums and check it out!
  • Guild Directory Forum: Looking for a guild or want to get yours posted in the guild directory? Head on over to the forums and check it out!
  • Fire Lotus Tavern: This wondrous role-playing and story writing forum is the spot to be if you love fan fiction and role-play.
  • Community Resources: Looking for links to community and official resources for Shroud of the Avatar? Well look no further. On this page you’ll find links to a plethora of helpful resources created by the dev team or the community.

So many options to stay tuned-in with fellow community members. Please take advantage of all these wonderful options. Happy adventures, Avatars!

 

Project to Support: Ma Vie en Rogue

Sorceress Dragon of the team behind the Ultima Dragons’ 25th Anniversary Bash is creating a new, narrative-driven Roguelike RPG, Ma Vie en Rogue! The game will feature fun, engaging gameplay, many varied worlds, unlimited character customization, dozens of unique NPCs, pets, and monsters, sweet pixel art, and so much more. Richard Garriott has already offered his official endorsement, so watch for the Lord British character and Ultima-inspired Easter eggs! The physical versions come in a collector’s tin lunchbox and showcase cover art by Ultima artist Denis Loubet, a cloth map, metal ankh amulet, printed booklet, and more. Late pledges are open on Kickstarter for a limited time so don’t miss your chance to get in on some unique treasures!

 

Project to Support: Inside a Kid’s Mind


Chris Spears’ daughter Maxine has, for a school project, opened a webstore of various items printed with her artwork. Go have a look Inside a Kid’s Mind!

 

Project to Support: Avatar Relics

Community member Shawn Butts has opened a Shroud of the Avatar merchandise store with Catnip Games’ approval. Visit for pins, mugs, shirts, posters, and more here.

 

Project to Support: Shard RPG

Shard Studios invites you to enter the fantastic world Dárdünah, the vast shard of a shattered realm, as presented in the colorful pages of the SHARD RPG! Many years in the making, this system allows players to choose from a wide variety of animal people who are the main cast of the many adventures this otherworldly setting offers. Skyships glide through shimmering clouds past majestic crystal peaks. Giant insects prowl alien jungles or lurk in the sparkling emerald seas. Warriors with blades of diamond and amber duel across crimson sands. And mystics chant in shadowy chambers as their spirits wander abroad.

  • Intro Sheet: For a quick glimpse into the world of Dárdünah, be sure to download the intro pdf! It’s packed with great information and features beautiful artwork, not unlike the artwork found throughout the many pages of this gaming system’s gorgeously designed manuals.
  • Core System Manuals: It’s easier than ever to delve into Dárdünah, World of the False Dawn, with the Basic Compendium and the Magic and Martial Arts books! They contain everything you need to begin your adventures, and include instructions for the ritual magic and martial arts combat systems. These manuals also include 90 new Animal Templates upon which to base your character!
  • Other Shard RPG Products: So many more manuals and gaming materials are available! Everything an avid tabletop role-player and game master needs to delve into the world of Dárdünah!

So if you’re ready to experience a gaming world like no other, check out what Shard Studios has created for tabletop role-players on the Shard RPG official website! You’ll most certainly be immersed and amazed by the offerings of the Shard RPG!

 

Project to Support: Embers Adrift!

Help support one of our team members’ other projects, Embers Adrift! Check out their official trailer here.

 

Resources: Players Helping Players

The official SotA New Player Welcome Forum and the Player Created Resources Forum have the best player created resources for Shroud of the Avatar, whether it’s a Player Written Guide, a Video Walk-through, or a Wiki-type Website.

Visit the official Community Resources page for a complete listing of all things community.