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Wizards of the Coast’s new “My Magic” contest gives you a chance to win a seriously awesome prize without having to be very good at Magic. You just need a great story about Magic.

I’m not talking about gold and platinum pieces, or even bronze dragons. I’m saying throw those devil signs in the air and bang your head to these ten great metal songs that are perfect for a night around the gaming table.

Be back as soon as possible.

DriveThruRPG and dozens of game designers have banded together to create Gamers Helping Haiti. With a $20 donation, you’ll get access to dozens of free games and gaming products, all while helping a good cause.

It was exactly 365 days ago that the very first Robot Viking post was made. To celebrate one year of existence, Robot Viking will be hosting a month long reverse birthday party. What’s a reverse birthday party? One where the guests get all the gifts.

Robot Viking is taking the week off. Hopefully, you have a few days off from school or work yourself — days which you are putting to good use playing games! We’ll be back in 2010 to celebrate Robot Viking’s birthday. Seriously, it’s been a whole year since the site launched.

Robot Viking comrade Wood Ingham and his fellow writers over at Jet Pack have been steadily filling the world with intense bursts of strange fiction, and Wood’s latest, “So I caught up with Dennis,” is no exception (though it is, to be sure, quite exceptional).

Do have $20? Do you have a game, book or miniature you’d like to sell? Do you run an online or brick and mortar game store? Artist? Author? Enthusiast? Would you like your work to be seen by a few hundred avid gamers every single day for a month? Are you an alien infiltrator looking [...]

Robot Viking is taking the rest of the week off. Enjoy your favorite Thanksgiving Day traditions (and for non-American readers, have a nice week). See you all on Monday.

There are technical difficulties occurring with my host. It’s out of my control. We’ll be back with your semi-regularly scheduled programming as soon as things are patched up. Dreamhost is usually pretty on the ball, so hopefully we’ll be back to normal for Tuesday.

As we mentioned last week, Dungeons & Dragons Online is a free to play MMORPG. We’ve been organizing an adventuring group on the Robot Viking forums, and tonight we’re trying to schedule our first official meet-up. We haven’t picked a specific mission or raid or whatever, we can figure that out when we see who [...]

Two new sponsors came aboard at Robot Viking this week, and I’d like to take a moment to thank them and point out why I think they’re pretty awesome (aside from the fact that they help keep Robot Viking chugging along).
Arcane Legions is a collectible mass combat miniatures game from Wells Expeditions. The premiere release [...]

Robot Viking headquarters has suffered some flooding. We will return to our regularly scheduled programming on Tuesday (or Wednesday, if it floods again tonight).

I’m taking a day or two off this week to work on other projects. When we return to our regularly scheduled programming later this week, we’ll have the next revision of the Project: Death Race alpha rules, plus reviews of Divine Power, the Eberron Campaign Guide and the Rebellion Era Campaign Guide for the Star [...]