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Knights of the Dinner Table® Magazine (ISSN 1526-307X) Is Published Monthly by Kenzer and Company, 808 Endicott Rd., Highwood, IL 60040 KoDT277_cover_kodt246_cover 9/27/20 7:22 AM Page 1 Sample file KoDT277_cover_kodt246_cover 9/27/20 7:23 AM Page 2 FOR THE LOVE OF GAWD — TAKE ACTION, NOW¡¡ SIX NEW Bundles of Trouble as Print Books or PDFs. AVAILABLE NOW! www.kenzerco.com DON’T LET YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONSample RUN file OUT! RENEWAL IS ONE QUICK BROWSER CLICK AWAY WWW.KENZERCO.COM NOT A KODT SUBSCRIBER..? WE CAN FIX THAT — CLICK-CLICK, DUDE SUPPORT SMALL PUBLISHERS Sample file CONTENTS ISSUE 277: GARYCON OR BUST REGULAR COLUMNS DEPARTMENTS 47 Tales from the Table Actual tales from the gaming table 4 Cries from the Attic Editorial of a madman 57 Web Scryer by Ken Newquist Junk Drawer 2020 5 Table Talk: Letters Page Our readers talk back GAMEMASTER’S WORKSHOP 60 Back Room at the Games Pit An opinion arena where 45 Denizens of Tellene readers can sound off Sarinor, Lavender by Barb Blackburn 62 Weird Pete’s Bulletin Board 49 All Things Magic Classified ads, personals Elixir of Honey Tongue by Barb Blackburn and other strangeness 50 Bait & Tackle Adventure hooks on the fly 52 Deadly Trappings Sleepy Time by Barb Blackburn SPECIAL FEATURES REVIEWS 35 Between the Covers Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit 31 RPG review by Noah Chinn Apocalypse How? 53 Lost Game Safari by Jim Davenport by Alan Hume Gary Gygax’s Dangerous Journeys 55 Indy Game Scene by Egg Embry Kids on Bikes 38 58 Off the Shelf Gaming the Movies: by Barbara Blackburn Crossing Lines Child of Chaos, Book 1 by Jim Davenport Sample file 61 Brian’s Picks Isle of Red,Harshaw Creek, Child of Chaos Book 1 © Copyright 2020, Kenzer and Company, All Rights Reserved. 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Now, with over 277 issues and over 80 trade paper backs under product (including back issues and RPGs) please call or e-mail us. their belts, it’s been a wild ride and we look forward to seeing where the Knights take us next. Knights of the Dinner Table® #277 3 B.A.S CAMPAIGN JOURNAL...? ears ago (circa 2003) a KenzerCo product called, “B.A.’s Of course, we’ve done some of the things mentioned above here YCampaign Journal” was put on the release schedule. It and there over the years. But with no real plan behind it. was slated to come out after the World of Aldrazar We’ve simply offered it up — like the Sleeping Dogs Lie pebble (Garweeze Wurld) Gazetter. last issue. It was a busy time for us as well as me personally. We had the Of course, the material would hopefully be of interest to KODT Dungeons and Dragons license, an insane release schedule for fans — even those who don’t actively roleplay or even play HackMaster 4e as well numerous other product lines. Not to men- HackMaster. tion keeping up with the monthly schedule of KODT. So I’ll pose a question to readers. Would this material be some- Long story short — by the time, I limped to the finish line with thing, you’d like to see? And if so, what other things from B.A.’s the Aldrazar book and handed it over to production, I was shying Journal would you like to see...? away from taking on B.A.’s journal. Eventually asking that it be And while I’m on the subject, a reader sent in an interesting strip removed from the schedule. idea recently. Taking a classic AD&D adventure many readers would Now, seventeen years later, I’ve been going over some of the be familiar with — and writing a strip of B.A. running the players material I managed to pull together for that project and find myself through that adventure. I keep turning that one around in my head. wanting to dust if off and dabble with it again. 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September 10, 2020 Sample file Twenty Ago This Month: KODT #47 September, 2020— B.A. baits the players with a “sym- pathy” NPC and they fall for it. — Jolly 4 Knights of the Dinner Table® #277 ENTWINED the TWO FORMS tumble and thrash among the fallen limbs and forest floor! briefly you imagine the STAG is actually FIGHTING BACK — but you quickly realize it has gone LIMP — it’s ATTACKER merely THROWING the poor victim’s body TO and FRO in a SAVAGE display of BLOOD LUST — as though the BEAST is SAVORING the very ACT of killing!! at long last the WEREWOLF stands on W-WEREWOLF...¿¡¡¡ his PREY, throws back his head and HOWLS at GOOD the MOON in TRIUMPH!! GAWD! Really appreciated the insight into how like vampires and werewolves can cause reader story ideas are integrated into the even the most seasoned players to panic? EDITOR’S NOTE: The mail just comic. Great issue. It felt sort of like a bait-and- never seems to stop.
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