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If you’ve been without Internet this week or something, you may have somehow missed the explosion of nerd rage when a female Gizmodo writer posted an article about discovering that her Internet date was actually Magic world champion Jon Finkel, and her horror at having been mislead. I guess he wasn’t wearing his “Gaming Nerd” [...]

Monster books are much beloved by all RPGers. This is known. The Midgard Bestiary from Open Design is more useful than most, filling two potential gaps in your monster arsenal: it serves as a monster manual for Wolfgang Baur’s Midgard Project, and it uses Green Ronin’s AGE system, adding a ton of new creatures to [...]

It’s called Mega Dungeon 1. The name alone carries a lot of weight, but it’s the 100 double-sided map sheets that really tip the scales. Those of you with fond memories of the 2nd edition Undermountain boxed sets will be delighted by this giant stack of dungeon maps and the accompanying adventures.

Some interesting things arrived recently in the mail here at Robot Viking headquarters.

Your PCs are probably really tired from their last adventure. They want some time off, a relaxing vacation where they can spend some of their gold, cash in a few unneeded magic items, enjoy the local sights and just have a pleasant time. May I humbly suggest they go somewhere other than the place known [...]

If you head over to io9 today, you’ll find an interview I did with Gareth-Michael Skarka, creator of a new RPG/shared world project called Far West. Far West depicts an epic fantasy set in a fictional world something like the American Wild West, but mixed with the martial arts traditions of Chinese wuxia. What I [...]

The Faerie Ring: Along the Twisting Way by Zombie Sky Press is a series of campaign guides introducing the world of the fae to the Pathfinder RPG. Red Jack takes a classic trope from Japanese folklore and warps it into a fae nemesis that could vex your PCs in this life and the next.

At a late night event at Gen Con, I was lucky enough to playtest a couple of still unfinished titles, both of which ended up being excruciatingly fun to my sleep-addled brain. First up was Shirak Agresta’s Horseshoes, Hand Grenades and Atomic Bombs. This 20-30 minute title pitted a handful of players each representing Cold [...]

Iron GM 2011 was a major hit this year, with organizer Lou Agresta running around like an orange clad lunatic as GMs were given an hour to craft a completely new five-hour adventure, using three secret ingredients. This year’s three surprises were Ogre Magi, Opera House and Oppression. Each GM was given an hour to [...]

While at GenCon, I managed to sneak in a few minutes with WoTC’s Adam Colby to talk about where Magic is right now. While Wizard’s big push this year is Neverwinter, Magic was there in force for the Nationals, as well as a large Duels of the Planeswalkers booth. I asked Colby about the upcoming [...]

WoTC’s big push at this years Gen Con was a return to Neverwinter, the venerable northern city that’s been a major crossover location for decades. Most of our readers probably remember Neverwinter Nights, the Bioware game from 2002 — but there was an even older title with the same name that AOL ran as one [...]

I had a chance to talk to Paizo’s James Sutter at Gen Con 2011, and calling Pathfinder a mindblowing success is understating it.

You may have noticed some posts this weekend from freelance writer Tim Barribeau. While Robot Viking could not attend Gen Con in person this year, Tim was covering it for io9.com, and he was awesome enough (and Annalee at io9 was awesome enough to arrange) to provide us with some direct coverage of new games [...]

One of the major announcements at GenCon was sprung on everyone on Friday — Margaret Weis Productions is getting the license for Marvel RPGs. They have an extremely aggressive plan with 16 books already in the works.