Robot Viking

It’s been a long while since we had an edition of Crash Test Magic. Conjecturing about hypothetical Magic cards seems like a fun way to pass an afternoon, so here we are: a card that doesn’t exist. But if it did, could you make a broken combo or brutally efficient deck out of it?

I was poking around some sites that have been sending links to Robot Viking, and I noticed two things on gaming message boards: 1). a generally positive attitude towards Robot Viking (thank you, I’m glad you like the site!) and 2). a few specific complaints about the site that I think are completely valid. So [...]

Last year, Wizards held the first Magic: the Gathering Online Community Cup. The event pitted members of the Magic Online Community and Magic media members against a crack team of Wizards employees, with prizes for the MTGO community at large at stake. The Community Team won in 2009, and this year I’ll have a chance [...]

Dungeon Crawler is a new, independent collectible card game that can be played solitaire or against a friend. It won’t be out for a few months, but Robot Viking got an excellent preview of this fun, fast-paced game of dungeon exploration.

This past weekend was the Rise of the Eldrazi prerelease (does it feel like we’ve been hyping it forever to you too?). I had a nice perspective on the set, since in addition to mine and my brother’s experiences, we were joined by someone attending his first ever Magic tournament (who also happens to be [...]

Blackbyrne Publishing has started a series of adventures designed for use with 4E D&D. The first volume, “The Hidden Current,” will carry 1st level PCs into some intrigue and banditry. And a lot of ambushes.

A war game based on the often-overlooked conflict between Native Americans and European settlers in the 1670s is stirring up controversy. The game, King Philip’s War, might be depicting the atrocities of pre-Colonial warfare a bit too accurately for some groups.

The release of Masters of the Force brings us to the end of the road with the Star Wars Miniatures game. It was a good run. Now all those little plastic Jedi are one with the Force.

This clanking metal warrior is the work of artist Brian Marshall. He creates robot sculptures from found objects like oil cans and old cutlery, including a series of robot Vikings. Check out this gallery of his work.

As the Eldrazi rise, bad things are happening. Bad things, man! The arrival of an actual Eldrazi is like an ecological catastrophe, a natural disaster. And surrounding any disaster is a radius.

Wizards of the Coast’s Star Wars RPG is going out in style with Unknown Regions, an old-school RPG book filled with monsters, traps, unexplored star systems and some powerful GM tools.

Don’t you hate it when your players catch on that a bunch of monsters in an encounter are minions, then metagame their strategy the whole time? “Don’t waste an encounter power on it, it’s just a minion!” I offer one possible solution: the MegaMinion.

The hardcover version of Arc Dreams’ Wild Talents Second Edition arrived at Robot Viking HQ last week, and it’s ten times as awesome as I’d hoped it would be.

Now that the contest is over, here are the solutions to all five puzzles. If you still want to try and solve them yourself just for fun, don’t read this until you’re done!