SotA Trading Cards, New Release 13 Desert Scene & Deco Items, Mad Hermit's How To Find and Identilfy Magical Reagents Video Guide, Hair and Hats Play Nice in R13, Weekend In-Game Events, Cyber Monday Streamathon Recap, and More!
Here's what we have for you in this week's edition of Update of the Avatar:
- SotA Steam Trading Cards
- Release 13 Grand Tour POI: Desert Scene
- R12 Steam Access Keys Available for All Backers
- Hair and Hats Play Nice in R13
- R13 Player Deco Items
- New Mad Hermit Video: How To Find And Identify Magical Reagents
- RECAP: Cyber Monday 12 Hour Telethon
- In-game Community Weekend Events
- Alienware Sponsors 1000 Release 13 Weekend Access Passes
- Holiday Specials
- Last Chance Exclusives: The Hoe of Prosperity and Obsidian Cloak
- This Week In the News
- Upcoming Events
We launched the Shroud of the Avatar Steam Trading Cards today, which includes these seven unique cards:
If you are not familiar with Steam Trading Cards, they are collectible (virtual) cards you get by playing games on Steam. Collect a full set of SotA trading cards to earn SotA badges, profile backgrounds, and emoticons that help you customize your profile and show off your Shroud of the Avatar gameplay.
You can get SotA trading cards simply by playing the game. As you play, you'll occasionally receive trading card drops which will be placed in your Steam Inventory. You can only receive about half of the SotA cards by playing and will need to collect the other half of the set from other community members. Try the beta group discussions, community market, barter with friends, and trade discussions. You can check how many drops you have remaining on your badges page (check out Steam's trading card FAQ for more information).
Here are images of the SotA trading card badges, emoticons, and sample profile background:
Release 13 Grand Tour POI: Desert Scene
A desert area is one of the new scenes and biome types we are introducing in R13. It will also be part of the R13 Grand Tour Quest.
Hair and Hats Play Nice in R13
We're happy to announce that you will no longer have to give up your hair to wear a hat in Release 13! Yay!
R13 Player Deco Items
There will be many new decorations available in R13, including hedges, stone walls, room dividers, and even a stage with stairs. Can't wait to see the R13 mazes created with these decorations!
New Mad Hermit Video: How To Find And Identify Magical Reagents
Thanks to community member The Mad Hermit for providing yet another great How-To video for Shroud of the Avatar. In this video he shows you how to find and identify magical reagents in Pre-Alpha Release 12. Magical Reagents are needed for casting higher level spells and can be purchased from certain vendors. They can also be obtained by killing certain creatures, field dressing certain animals, harvesting plants and mining rocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F7ne-6kS8xw
Click here to check out all of The Mad Hermit's amazing how-to videos!
RECAP: Cyber Monday 12 Hour Streamathon
We'd like to thank all the special guests that participated in our Cyber Monday 12 Hour Streamathon on December 1st! The twelve hours flew by with all the fun stories and design discussions that were shared! And thanks to all of you that tuned in to listen and post your questions!
We gave away tons of prizes, including 120 weekend passes to Release 13 (starting December 18), twelve $100 Store Credit coupon winners, and fifteen winners of Plantronics and Alienware peripherals, including one lucky grand prize winner of the Alienware Gaming Desktop computer!
We also presented the Order of New Britannian Empire and Royal Warrant awards to the following SotA community members:
Order of New Britannian Empire
- Fenyx4 ~ Programming]
- Melchior Meijer ~ SFX, Music and Art contributions
- Stile Teckel (The Caverns.net)
- Riya (New Britannia's Builders of Bemusing Bewilderments)
Royal Warrant
- Joseph Toschlog (Rustic Dragon) ~ Hearth of Britannia
- Joe Garrity ~ The Origin Museum
- Amber Raine ~ Avatar’s Radio
- Balec ~ Accepting for the Bear Tavern
- Duke Violation ~ Order of Vengeance (PvP Tournaments)
- Duke Gréagóir ~ Dara Brae, The Celtic Holdfast (Welcome Quest)
- Languard and Aartemis: Society of Dungeoneering Cartography Scene Collaboration.
You each have our heartfelt thanks for the amazing time and effort you contribute to the Shroud of the Avatar project and community!
If you missed the live Streamathon you can view it here...
Release 12 In-game Weekend Community Events
Our amazing community has another great lineup of in-game events planned for Release 12 this weekend. Here is the latest schedule of player events from the Avatar's Circle Community Events calendar (http://avatarscircle.com/community-events/):
Friday, December 5
10:00pm CST - Dungeon Run - Braemar Cemetery
7:00pm CST - Dungeon Run - Braemar Cemetery
Saturday, December 6
9:00am CST - PaxLair Working Hours - Host Winfield (in Valemark)
11:00am CST - Church of the Dark Star - The Monsters that Dwell Within - Deceit (PaxLair, Valemark)
12:00Pm CST - Welcome Quest 12.5 - (in Northshire, "/zone Dara Brae", details at https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/welcome-quest-in-r12-5.17868/)
Sunday, December 7
5:30 am CST - Explore Novia with royalsexy (Braemer cemetery)
5:00 pm CST - PvP - 1x1 Tournament (at the Brave Coast or "/zone Duke Violation")
6:00pm CST - Tag - Vengeance Style! (at the Brave Coast or "/zone Duke Violation")
7:00pm CST - PaxLair Meeting - (in Valemark or "/zone Winfield PaxLair")
And much, much more! Click here to read the rest of Update of the Avatar #102...