Robot Viking

What kind of fiend is this launching itself out of the night sky to feast upon mortal blood? Duh. It’s a Fiend of the Shadows. She’ll make her appearance in the latest Magic expansion, Dark Ascension, continuing Innistrad’s tale of gothic horror in gruesome new directions.

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 brilliant idea for a Magic set doesn’t always become a great set once all the cards are on the table. Innistrad is built around a gothic horror theme that a lot of players (myself included) are huge fans of. Did Wizards match idea with execution, or do we have another Kamigawa on our hands? [...]

The classic horror of Magic’s Innistrad set is creeping up on us like a full moon crawling up the sky, leering through the clouds and filling us with lunacy and rage. Robot Viking’s Innistrad card does not use Insanity Wolf as the card art, but Insanity Wolf would still be a fan of Full Moon’s [...]

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 [...]

It’s already been revealed that tribal mechanics will play a part in Magic’s fall set, the horror themed Innistrad. We also know that the almost completely forsaken werewolf tribe will be getting a lot more attention. Inspired by one of Bennie Smith’s columns at Starcitygames, in which he speculated how the werewolves will function mechanically, [...]

Recreational Conflict is an online retailer selling minis from a variety of smaller miniature producers, but they also make their own line of minis called Lead Bones. I think everyone could use a Crate O’ Zombies.

Delta Green is a highly acclaimed RPG about a secret organization, formerly government sanctioned, that deals with the horrors of the Cthulhu mythos in the 21st century. Delta Green co-creator Dennis Detwiller has written a new novel set in the Delta Green universe. Here’s some background info on Delta Green plus an exclusive excerpt from [...]

I have been continuing to experiment with large groups of relatively weak creatures to threaten my epic level party. As the party has also been marching into a dying Nentir Vale, where the dark power of the rift under the Keep on the Shadowfell has been allowed to grow unchecked, zombies seemed the way to [...]

Wizards of the Coast recently announced the fall 2011 set, which will be called Innistrad. Why have they announced it already when they haven’t even told us the name of the third Scars of Mirrodin set, which will be coming out in May? And why am I so excited about Innistrad?

No free fiction today, but I do have news of some fiction I wrote being published, something I’m, frankly, pretty excited about.

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.

Halloween week is a good time to take a fond look back at one of my favorite RPGs. Chill isn’t perfect, but it’s a good, straightforward look at a world being encroached upon by the supernatural.

Halloween week continues – today we’ll examine five horror movie plots that you can steal and adapt for your fantasy RPG campaign.