For those of you who missed the opportunity to purchase the Collector’s Boxed Edition of Shroud of the Avatar during the Kickstarter (expired on January 4, 2016) we are excited to announce that for a limited time we are also offering a signed version of the retail Boxed Edition for purchase directly from our website! For videogame collector’s Lord British boxes are “must haves” and were the first games to even come in boxes (and first to include cloth maps, trinkets, etc.)!

In celebration of SotaCon, the annual convention of all things Shroud, this rare signed version of the box is on sale for only $89 (a $50 discount!) until Monday October 15!

This edition includes:

Physical Goods:

• Game Box signed by Lord British*
• Game Manual
• DVD in case
• Runic Translation Card
• Ankh Trinket
• Cloth Map
• Our Epic Origins

Digital Items:

• Digital Download of Shroud of the Avatar, Episode 1 (Full Game Access)
• 30 Bank Slots to store your gear
• 1 Gold Crown
• Pick 1 Obsidian Potion
• Digital Download of Shroud of the Avatar, Episode 2 (Full Game Access when released)
• Exclusive Title: Visionary
• Exclusive Emote (exact emote to be created at a future date)
• NEW: Unique Item (to be created at a future date)

Another content packed weekly Community Livestream is this Friday October 12 at 4 PM CDT on Twitch!

This week we are going to talk about the new scaling technology coming online in Release 59 to support Fishing Phase 2, harvesting, and agriculture! This tech allows us to scale items when they are harvested or caught through systems like fishing. Above you can see a picture of some trophy pumpkins that were harvested. Joaquin “Wizardsmoke” Del Canto and Brandon “Bzus” Cotton will be showing off how this system works with pumpkins and we will discuss how it will work with trophy fish.

As a reminder you can earn the Dragon themed stretchgoals by making a purchase on any Friday during Release 58 or by participating in the Rewards program! These stretchgoals are in honor of the Wyverns which went live in Release 58. We have already hit the first three goals!

• ACHIEVED $10K: Dragon Egg Decorations
• ACHIEVED $25K: /breathefirespiral
• ACHIEVED $35K: Dragon Skin Rugs (2 colors)
• $50K: Dragon Dungeon Entrance Pattern
• $65K: Dragon Bow & Dragon Plate Helm
• $80K: Dragon Sword & Dragon Polearm
• $90K: Dragon Mask Set (multiple color variants) with smoke VFX
• $100K: Unique Dungeon Dragon Encounter Room

As usual we will be giving out prizes at 4:15 and 4:45! To be eligible all you need to do is either make any purchase in the store or log into the game and type “Light it up” in the chat window (no purchase necessary).

Watch on Twitch this Friday at 4 PM CDT!

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Since we are doing a big livestream on Thursday for R58 we will be doing a shorter version of our weekly Community Livestream Friday October 5 at 4 PM CDT on Twitch!

We will be giving out prizes at 4:15! To be eligible all you need to do is either make any purchase in the store or log into the game and type “Light it up” in the chat window (no purchase necessary).

Watch on Twitch this Friday at 4 PM CDT!

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The Release 58 Livestream is set for Thursday October 4! All Avatars from around the world are welcome to join us in the livestream activities. We will be doing deep dives, answering questions, having sales, handing out prizes, and tracking towards stretch goals. In honor of the Wyverns going live in Release 58 the theme for this livestream is Dragons!

LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE (Central Time Zone)

Monthly livestreams are on Twitch and include answers to your gameplay questions, world building tours, prize giveaways, sales on items, and more! Here is the schedule:

• 3PM: Introductions
• 3:30PM: Deep Dive 1: Player Made Dungeons
• 4:30PM: Q&A
• 5:30PM: Deep Dive 2: Seasonal Content
• 6:30PM: Q&A
• 7PM: Ending Announcements

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[From a forum post by Starr “Darkstarr” Long]

Greetings Avatars,

As 2018 comes to a close we can reflect on what an amazing year it has been! We moved out of Early Access in March and Collector’s Boxes shipped in Q3! As we have finished our Kickstarter promises we have been able to focus on polish and serious improvements to quality of life! The final quarter of 2018 is going to be amazing with Player Made Dungeons, Fishing Phase 2, Seasonal Content, and more polish!

PLEASE NOTE: The last two releases of the year (Nov/R60 and Dec/R61) will be very early in their respective months so that they are released well ahead of the US winter holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas).

Q4 is just a warmup for 2019 which will be an amazing year for Shroud of the Avatar players! Crafting specializations (choose your effects!), Grandmaster Craftsman only effects, more loot improvements, more expansions to the fishing system, better boss fights and more! 2019 will of course culminate with Episode 2 which will have a new story, new lands, a revamp of the Quest and Journal system, a Theater System, Treasure Hunting with treasure maps that show up as loot, Item Affinity, Taming system expansions, Customizable NPCs, and expanded permissions for containers and doors! Read more…

[From a forum post by Starr “Darkstarr” Long]

Avatars,

Please read this entire message, as well as the linked Player Guide and Known Issues.

Release 58 of Shroud of the Avatar goes live this Thursday, September 27, at 10:30 AM US Central Daylight Time (15:30 UTC).

Release 58 is the final release in which we focused on the current iteration of our Top 10 Priorities (from Q3 2018 post). The good news is we made some progress on fishing, we got tameable Wyverns in the game, performance has improved again, bugs were fixed, and more decorations are dyeable. Unfortunately we were not able to make as much progress as we hoped.

As many of you might have noticed via our standup notes, we have been coordinating moving to a new office for a couple of months now. We were going to originally move slowly over a two week period with internet and network overlapping at both offices but our internet provider at our old office decided to disable our internet 2.5 weeks early! This forced us to initiate our move quite suddenly, right before lockdown, and of course disrupted our plans considerably for R58 as you will see below.

But, be not dismayed, Avatars! Q4 will see us caught up on fishing and other delays! Stand fast with us and ye shall be rewarded yet!

Wyverns: These dragonkin are generally smaller than their full-size cousins and the smaller versions can be tamed. Rumors abound that the Dragon clan of the Norgard Barbarians has tamed some wyverns to help waylay travelers in the northwest, so beware if you encounter them! Read more…

Another content packed weekly Community Livestream is this Friday September 28 at 4 PM CDT on Twitch!

This week we are going to talk about Taming! Chris “Atos” Spears and Brandon “Bzus” Cotton will be showing you how to tame creatures in the game. We will show you how the system works from crafting taming collars, through taming a creature, to summoning the creature to fight for you. We will be using some of the latest high tier tameable creatures like the Wyverns and Obsidian Bears to demonstrate.

In exciting news this Friday is the first Friday where all purchases from noon to midnight count towards the Release 58 Stretch Goals (link to R58 livestream coming soon!) which are dragon themed in honor of the Wyverns which are going live in Release 58!

• ACHIEVED $10K: Dragon Egg Decorations
• $25K: /breathefirespiral
• $35K: Dragon Skin Rugs (2 colors)
• $50K: Dragon Dungeon Entrance Pattern
• $65K: Dragon Bow & Dragon Plate Helm
• $80K: Dragon Sword & Dragon Polearm
• $90K: Dragon Mask Set (multiple color variants) with smoke VFX
• $100K: Unique Dungeon Dragon Encounter Room

As usual we will be giving out prizes at 4:15 and 4:45! To be eligible all you need to do is either make any purchase in the store or log into the game and type “Light it up” in the chat window (no purchase necessary).

Watch on Twitch this Friday at 4 PM CDT!

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