October 10
2018
Shroud of the Avatar Boxed Edition Hits the Shelves at Amazon
If you haven’t heard the news, Shroud of the Avatar is available now at Amazon!
August 21
2018
Keeping up with Shroud of the Avatar, It’s Community, and it’s Developers
Hello fellow Spelunkers!
First I have to apologize. I have been waiting until I had enough pieces to get a new one of these out and a few days ago I realized I was way past having enough and should be posting the second one by now, with what I have! Ooops!
So let’s do this thing.
I mean, what can I seriously say? What words can top this title? Not really fair you know? It’s like looking at a level 6 Rouge and saying, ok go for it, roll your hiding skill to hide from Dragolich the dragon, in a fully lit room, which is also his hoard, after he was just talking to you, and you haven’t moved, and he knows where you are. Unless your Bilbo and have a Ring of Unlimited Invisibility, with Unlimited Charges, forget it!
It Took 26 Years To Find Ultima 7's Lord British Hiding In This Secret Room | Kotaku UK
This article is about Cryptocurrency, but makes mention of Richard Garriott in it and gives an update on his property in Austin.
Cryptocurrency and real estate: Two worlds collide
This is an absolutely fantastic historic write-up on Ultimate Collector!
The history of “Ultimate Collector”, Garriott’s stab at social gaming – Slashie's Journal
Time for Popcorn!!
You have the pieces put out by MMORPG and similar sites, to check out if you missed them.
Player Made Dungeons to Debut in Q4 2018 – Shroud of the Avatar – MMORPG.com
A Bumpy Start to Release 56 Causes a Rollback and a Retry – Shroud of the Avatar – MMORPG.com
February 2
2018
Wizard for Hire – Ever Want A Legendary GM to Run an RPG for your Group? NOW YOU CAN!
Ever sit around with your game group knocking around who it would be cool to have run a campaign for you just once?
Or how about going to a convention and pubically playing with an amazing guest GM or attending their panel, and thinking.. WOW! I wish I could have them run for my private group once!
What about just consulting with such a person for your own campaign?
While not every Epic GM out there offers such services, Nystul does!
*PINS A FLYER TO YOUR GAME TABLE WITH A DAGGER*
Check it out!! If you have any interest just contact me and I will put you in touch with him.
December 24
2017
Ultima Auction Spotlight – Runestones and Maps
Something you won’t see up for sale by themselves very often is the Runestones from Ultima Underworld. I know this particularly well as I am missing just a single rune from my set and have been watching for just some misc runes for years!
This is a nice auction in that it has the stones, the bag, a couple of maps, and even comes with a cool box to hold it all! At the current minimum bid, the math works out to make this a reasonably fair purchase in my opinion. Sadly for me, I need one little rune out of all of that, so for me, it’s not a great buy unless I had the money to invest in some duplicates. For someone that needs the rest? Go for it!!
The Ankh box is cool too, even if not an official Ultima item!.
October 3
2017
Hungry Eyes in the Darkness – The New Britannia Theater Troupe – Shroud of the Avatar
If you missed it in game, grab a bucket of frog legs, some butter, and get ready to have some fun!
September 27
2017
Akalabeth Auction Spotlight
Been looking for an Akalabeth and tired of never finding one? One just went up on eBay, and the seller is just letting the bids drive the price. May be a great opportunity to get in on one of these!
Rare Apple II – Akalabeth: World of Doom – California Pacific Computers – Tested | eBay
9/27/2017 8:31AM Update
There are some concerns in the collector community this may be a fake. Not sure, just do your investigation before buying.
September 26
2017
Shroud of the Avatar, It’s Community, and It’s Developers in the News
Just some various things I have had come across my desk over the last month or so, that you may want to check out if you missed them.
Legendary game celebrates 20 year anniversary – micetimes.asia
Shroud Of The Avatar Brings New Update – MMOExaminer
Great Gaming Minds: Harvey Smith (Dishonored, Deus Ex)
Gamasutra – Richard Garriott remembers calling his
Break Out: Ultima III and the familial origins of Origin Systems | VentureBeat
How Richard Garriott got started in games – Polygon
Gamasutra – Press Releases- Travian: Legends launches
Choose My Adventure: Many kinds of lost in Shroud of the Avatar – Massively Overpowered
In the wake of the Game of Thrones finale, indulge in the nostalgia of Dragonlance – Vox
August 30
2017
Portalarium, Shroud of the Avatar, It’s Dev’s, and It’s Community
CONGRADUUUUUULATIONS SHROUD OF THE AVATAR
Shroud of the Avatar has now successfully raised over Twelve Million in funding. That’s worth taking note of! My congratulations to everyone involved in that, something to be proud of.
Let’s take a look at some of the recent going on’s that are involved in that, shall we?
With Richard Garriott having opportunities to talk about it a bit at a Gaming Convention with over 350K people, I hope we will see a few new players!
More than 350,000 attend Gamescom 2017 – Thumbsticks
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds Panel Coming To Gamescom – GameSpot
Gamasutra – Press Releases- From Playerunknown's
Speaking of Richard Garriott and conventions.
Devcom to return in 2018 | GamesIndustry.biz
A community continuing to create resources for each other!
Travel journal about the South entrance to Dragomir Mori – Part 1 | Shroud of the Avatar Forum
Travel journal about the South entrance to Dragomir Mori – Part 2 | Shroud of the Avatar Forum
The Rest…
Shroud of the Avatar works on replacing placeholder scenes – Massively Overpowered
Also if you did not see one of my new projects, I am running an online auction site now. Located in my store, Caveloot.com, where you can also find Shroud of the Avatar Items listed under the “virtual Games” category, under the “shop here” menu tab. More products being added all the time!
What’s great about this project is that we sell for the community for a fairly low commission. If you want to learn more about it why not just drop my an email at customerservice@thecaverns.net?
I also have a nice write-up detailing the program over here in the forums:
Online Auction Services at Caveloot.com being offered | Shroud of the Avatar Forum
August 15
2017
Caveloot.com Starts Shroud of the Avatar Online Auctions
Ok, you are a Shroud of the Avatar player and you are tired of looking at arbitrary price lists of items from sellers. You want to see what people are actually paying for items, what they are selling for, and have opportunities to get at lower costs. In short, you want an online auction!
I decided to start running an auction service at my store site Caveloot.com. To see how things go, I currently just have a couple of small artifacts and one large item priced low to start things out! Looking for a Duke Founder City Water House Deed? This might be your chance, as I have a two-week auction running with a starting bid of $50!
Maybe it’s the reverse of that. You are a seller, and you just want to see what your items will go for at that time, selling as quickly as you can and not messing with everything. We’d be more than happy to run auctions for your items, at your specified minimums (returning what doesn’t sell), for a 10% commission. Interested? Contact customerservice@thecaverns.net!
Have a LOT of stuff to sell, want to do it quickly, don’t know where to start, concerned about risk, and don’t want to undersell? Let us take your complete inventory for you, run it as auctions, market it, take care of all the transactions, and just hand you your payments minus our Paypal Fees and 10% commission!
August 10
2017
Shroud of the Avatar – Travelers’ Tavern Grand Opening Party and HUGE SALES! August 11th 7 PM NBT
This notice was posted over in the forums by Valkaryie. Given I run shops in the New Brittania Market, I absolutely had to pass it on!
