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KENZER & TM COMPANY Knights of the Dinner Table #21 D T Home is Where You Hang inner able Yer Dice Bag July, 1998 ______© Copyright 1998, Kenzer and “Home is Where You Company, All Rights Reserved. Knights of the Dinner Table™ magazine is published monthly by Hang Yer Dice Bag!” Kenzer and Company. Subscriptions: A one year sub- scription (12 issues) is only $32.00 Created by Jolly R. Blackburn (US $36.00 in Canada and US $50.00 Overseas). Ongoing Developers: Jolly R. Blackburn, Brian Jelke, To subscribe, send a check or money order (made payable to Steve Johansson and David Kenzer Kenzer and Company) to: ______Cover by George Vrbanic Kenzer & Company KODT Subscriptions, 2094 Camino A Los Cerros Menlo Park, CA 94025 ______or fax a valid Visa, MasterCard, or Discover card number, your signa- ture, card type and expiration date to us at (650) 233-8270. Back Issues: Back issues and related merchandising are also available. See inside cover of this issue or our website for details. Sample file Legal Notice: Knights of the Dinner Table, Hack in Space, Game Vine, Hacknoia, Wadizitz, KODT, HackMaster, Hard Eight Ent., Gary Jackson Files, the Kenzer and Co. Logo, and all prominent characters and likenesses thereof are trademarks of Kenzer and Co. Mailing Address: Kenzer and Company, 2094 Camino a los Cerros, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Phone/fax: (650) 233-8270. Internet: [email protected] (editorial inquiries only) or [email protected] (all other inquiries). World Wide Web: http://members.aol.com/relkin/ken zerco.html Submissions: We accept submis- sions for strip ideas, jokes, car- toons, etc. We are interested in run- ning anything that other gamers and fans would enjoy. Send a S.A.S.E. for writer’s guidelines to the address listed above or E-mail [email protected]. Advertising: A copy of our latest ad rates can be obtained by writing the KenzerCo address above or calling (650) 233-8270. You may also E-mail [email protected] Editorial of a Madman
oody Hoo!!! The summer cons are approach- ing. Our dice bags have been carefully inven- Htoried and packed up. The calendar has been “santa claus highlighted with show dates in anticipation of hitting the road. We can hardly wait to see our fans again. on crack??” That’s what cons are all about. Greeting old friends and making new ones. Fortunately the antics of the KenzerCo staff last summer didn’t result in any expulsions or banishments from the major shows. (You can only shove a blue her- when you tell us how your 5th level fighter killed a ring in someone’s face so many times and scream, bronze dragon with a door spike. “KISS THE FISH!!” before you’re ushered to the door Seriously, we do love meeting the people who have and end up spending the rest of the con playing helped spread the word about KODT. Scattegories on the tailgate of the company truck in the Before I close I wanted to talk about the picture of hotel parking lot.) We’ve earned a bit of a ‘bad rep’ for Weird Pete above. It appeared in a strip (page 16) in our practical jokes and what can only be described as Issue 17. I’ve always considered my drawing skills to ‘juvenile behavior’ both at our booth and in the hotels. be weak at best. One of the reasons I’m dumfounded Perhaps you noticed me being pushed through the that I literally stumbled into this line of work and find crowds riding a luggage cart at GENCON last year myself always apologizing for my scrawling. But I’d apparently playing Live-Action Circus Maximus. (I like to apologize for THIS image in particular. I needed would have won too if they had given me a whip). a front view of Weird Pete, I was in a hurry (I had Or maybe you were in the hotel room at GameX a already missed the deadline for that issue) so....I few years ago when I announced I could pull the table whipped something out. Apparently it scared several cloth off the table without disturbing the game of Axis readers. One reader wrote, “he looks like Santa Claus and Allies (or the zillions of game pieces) that was on crack!!” Another reader commented, “It’s disturbing. being played on it at the moment. As it began raining I always liked Pete but that picture really bothered me. little tanks, aircraft carriers and bombers in the room, I can’t sleep at night. I keep seeing him coming at me it occurred to me that I had exercised poor judgement. out of the shadows.” No one was amused. I barely escaped with my life I have burned the original drawing and scattered the thanks to my quick recall that a flipped table makes an ashes in a local cemetery under a dark moon. The sole excellent obstacle for slowing down one’s pursuers. (It remaining scanned image will be placed on a 3.5” flop- bought me enough time to tummy-slide down a flight py and dropped into a freshly poured concrete slab at of stairs and seek asylum behind the hotel’s front desk the earliest possible convenience. (Let future genera- where I felt safe enough to do my,Sample “I taunt you a sec- filetions deal with it). ond time!!” impersonation over the shoulders of hotel Well, hope you enjoy the issue. As always, let us security at my the gathering mob demanding my head. know how we are doing. Okay, the madman loves to embellish a story as much as the next gamer but I did fear for my life. Anyway, the reason I mention the summer cons is that I want to encourage our fans to stop by the booth Jolly R. Blackburn and say, “hello!” We love meeting you and hearing May 24, 1998 what you have to say. We’ll be glad to sign comics for you, look at your family photo albums, hear your bad jokes or even smile and pretend like we are interested does this mean the HA!! he fell for it. i’m warmin’ ‘em up now, PEACE CONFERENCE okay bob, i dismantled my dude!! just remember our INTERCONTINENTAL i’ll NUKE, b.a. with has adjourned?? ⁄‚‚ MEGATONS, deal. i get IOWA!! i want MISSILE BATTERIES your SHOCK TROOPS on IOWA?? firk ding per the terms of our cease you follow up with yer DIRTY NUKES!! that left flank ASAP!! blast. i’m implementing fire agreement. NOW can my SCORCHED EARTH i have FINANCIAL AID?? program. CRIES FROM THE ATTIC CRIES FROM THE ATTIC Call won Julie Jolly Jolly A , issue 17 KODT
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“PLEASE, WON”T YOU HELP ME the BLIND FIFTY FEED MY FAMILY MAN is over- GOLD BY BUYING whelmed with ?!! PIECES?? A TASTY SNACK your act of TREAT??” goodness SARA!
GEEZE LOUEEZE, SARA!! we risked yeah!! whadda ya givin’ it to dave’s right, sara. givin’ yer money to our lives for that gold. how in the hell some STUPID blind dude NPC’S effectively takes HARD EARNED do you JUSTIFY doling it out like for? he’s just an NPC!! you CURRENCY out of the game. b.a. knows that?? those FIFTY GOLD PIECES don’t think he’s really going you’re a BLEEDIN’ HEART. he’s just could have come in handy. to SPEND it on his POOR throwing these HARD LUCK types in your STARVIN’ KIDS do you?? path to part you from your money. will you guys lighten up already??
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look, it was MY money and sara the blind man gives you a small RICE CAKE wrapped in paper. i spent it the way I wanted to. “MAY YOUR GENEROSITY REVISIT YOU A THOUSAND you have a problem with that?? FOLD!!” he smiles warmly and tips his cap to you. fine. do what you want to. i was just trying to help. yeah, yeah, very touching. for FIFTY FREAKIN’ GOLD PIECES he should have tied a FREAKIN’ BIB around her FREAKIN’ neck and HAND FREAKIN’ FED it to her! THORINA is a big girl!! she hmmrrfff, with can take care of herself. a 17 strength she’s a BIG what a goof!! i take the now run home to GIRL alright. sellin’ crummy cake and your little little rice cakes. thank him. NPC family and your little NPC house on the prairie.
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