Robot Viking

With the turn of another calendar page, 2010 slips into the past and we start another year. Robot Viking has been around for two years now!

I am apparently not the only one interested in conflicts between mortals and fae creatures — Firestorm Ink’s Geasa lets a group of players construct a story about hapless mortals who make deals with Fae beings for magical help (but it doesn’t usually work out the way the mortal plans).

There are a lot of ways to store your dice — bags, boxes…well, ok, two ways. But this one trumps them all, a handmade Cthulhu dice bag in eldritch black and Dagonian green.

The Faerie Ring: Along the Twisting Way is a new line of Pathfinder/3.5 guides to the world of fey creatures by Zombie Sky Press. It will attempt to redefine the fey within D&D as alien, mysterious and deadly beings, and Prelude sets the stage.

Did you know that there’s a new D&D movie in the works? It’s called Book of Vile Darkness, and you can actually win a walk-on role. Not only that, you get to create the character you’ll play in the movie. That’s a pretty cool contest.

Today I’ll be reviewing the Abbey of the Golden Sparrow by Tricky Owlbear Publishing. This is the first of their locale supplements, a product that focuses on a location designed to fit into any setting, rather than a simple list of feats. I really like this idea, because it gives the GM in a hurry [...]

Maybe you’ve just realized that Christmas is only a few days away, or you only have a short time left to find presents for your particular chosen winter holiday that involves giving gifts. Maybe you just want to pick up a few small gifts or stocking stuffers for your gaming pals. Either way, Robot Viking [...]

A lot of fantasy fiction and gaming material is decidedly English in origin. Open Design’s Tales of the Old Margreve wraps its adventures around Eastern Europe’s folk tales and mythology instead, giving Pathfinder characters a dark, mysterious fey playground that will carry them from level one to 10.

As a special Friday treat, Ryk Perry brings us the long-anticipated second chapter in the tale Sir Reimund, a landless knight who knows he has to fight for every scrap of coin and respect. When we last left Reimund, he’d won a battle against some mercenaries when a messenger arrived bearing news that Reimund’s brother [...]

The Heavy Gear Arena Two-Player Starter Kit Giveaway has ended, and we have a winner to announce. Plus, check out this awesome hovertank.

The Star Wars gaming license has been floating in limbo since Wizards of the Coast dropped it earlier this year. It was purchased this week by a mystery game company that has yet to make any kind of official announcement, but educated guesswork has many game industry observers thinking Fantasy Flight Games is the big [...]

After a break of far too long, here’s the Cleric, Druid, and Bard portion of Rite Publishing’s 101 5th Level Spells for 3.5/Pathfinder D&D (read part 1 here).

The awesome sci-fi horror creature above comes from the art preview for Magic’s next expansion set, Mirrodin Besieged. I have no idea what it is, but it’s probably a black card (or possibly an artifact), and I definitely want one, whatever it does.

I stand by my original assertion that the new D&D Character Builder program is pretty neat, it’s just really early in its development and needs a lot of work. Which is frustrating because we all went through that with the old character builder. Still, I’m mostly optimistic. But tonight I stumbled across something glaringly obvious [...]