Michael L. Fiegel is an American writer and

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who has worked primarily on

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Career

Role-playing games

Fiegel was the columns editor for

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from 2001 to 2005, as well as a columnist. In 2001, Fiegel began working with Jerry Grayson of Khepera Publishing on the second edition of that company's '' GODSEND Agenda'' (2001), a superhero role-playing game set in the modern world. Fiegel later co-wrote and co-designed Khepera's '' HELLAS: Worlds of Sun and Stone'' (2008) alongside Grayson. He also wrote later books in the ''Hellas'' series. Fiegel is also the creator of

Ninja Burger is a parody website started in late 1999, purporting that a sect of noble ninja have taken to secretly delivering fast food meals, anywhere, anytime, within 30 minutes or less. Failure to deliver within the ascribed time limit results in seppuku ...

and the author of the ''Ninja Burger RPG:2nd Edition'' (2006) and the ''Ninja Burger: Honorable Employee Handbook'' (2006). In 2009, he also wrote and published the modern horror/conspiracy-themed Vox RPG. He also authored the ''Baba Yaga: The First Setting in Rassiya'' electronic RPG supplement for Dog Soul Publishing, which won a 2006 Gold ENnie award for Best Electronic Book and was nominated for Best Writing.

PC games

Fiegel has worked as a writer for two

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Perpetual Entertainment Perpetual Entertainment, founded in March 2002, was an American developer, publisher and operator of networked multiplayer games and MMORPGs. Their headquarters was located in San Francisco, California, United States. From October 2007 to Febru ...

's '' Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising'', and

NCsoft NCSoft Corporation (stylized as NC, formerly stylized as NCSOFT; ) is a South Korean video game developer and publisher headquartered in Pangyo, Seongnam, South Korea, primarily known for the distribution of massively multiplayer online role-pl ...

's '' Aion: Assault on Balaurea''. He was also the lead writer for the sci-fi-themed interactive fiction game '' The Away Team''.

Books

Outside of the already mentioned ''Ninja Burger: Honorable Employee Handbook'' (published by Kensington/Citadel in 2006), Fiegel's first novel titled ''Blackbird'' was published on November 14, 2017 by Skyhorse.

References

External links

Home page

Michael Fiegel :: Moby Games Database

Mike "Aeon" Fiegel :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive

Michael Fiegel :: RPG Geek Website
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