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The Storymatic is simply a box of story prompts. But that’s a very powerful thing in the hands of some creative gamers.

The coming of a scarlet comet every 100 years is the harbinger of grave cosmic events, coinciding with the efforts of an insane sorcerer and some alien nightmare creatures to either enslave humanity or summon forth the slumbering chaos deity at the center of the universe. See if you can do something about that.

A brand new Book of Vile Darkness, specially tailored for 4E D&D, was released this week. Just in time for Christmas! It’s got all kinds of advice on making your campaign, encounters, monsters and maybe even your characters extra evil. Eeeeeeeeeevil. Plus, a poster map!

Heroes of the Feywild is the companion piece to Heroes of Shadow, a player’s option book that offers new races and classes for characters who seek to explore the enchanted wilderness that lies beyond the firelight.

This pathfinder supplement is intended for use with Rite Publishing’s Coliseum Morpheuon high-level campaign setting. It details an odd, seemingly insignificant character, an elderly goblin who carries the dead away from the Khan’s fighting arena in the Plane of Dreams.

I have a ridiculous backlog of things that need to be reviewed. So today I will be doing nothing but reviewing things. We’ll see how many I can get to. I’ll also be talking about the things I’m reviewing at the Robot Viking Twitter account, if you want to join in. First review, coming up [...]

Skyrim is by far the most popular video game that doesn’t involve mowing down enemy troops with a machine gun, selling almost three million copies in November alone (and it didn’t even come out until November was almost over). As such, there are a trillion Skyrim reviews on the Internet. So I won’t bother talking [...]

At times, I have considered and lamented the fading historical legacy of the RPG hobby. Many of the inventors of the original RPGs of the early 1970s have passed away, and with no serious efforts underway to preserve fragile books and boxed sets (many of which had very small print runs), it seemed like the [...]

If you have never heard of Kickstarter let me acquaint you. The basic idea behind the site is that there are a lot of good ideas out there that never get the necessary funding to realize their idea. Unlike Jodie Foster did in Contact, the people that pitch their ideas on Kickstarter do not need [...]

The latest Magic premium deck, Graveborn, came out a few weeks ago, and it’s packed with graveyard filling goodies. They’re all decked out with special foil treatments, too. I’m just not quite sure who these decks are for.

Wizards’ efforts to promote Magic to mainstream audiences have been hit-or-miss over the years. This commercial was made by some fans to promote their store. It tops every prior effort, without a doubt.