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Knights of the Dinner Table KODT No.#4 “Have Dice Will Travel” $5.95 KODT No.#19 “Heroes of the HackLeague” $2.95 KODT No.#5 “Master of the Game” $7.95 KODT No.#20 “Hack in Space!” $2.95 KODT No.#6 “Plays Well With Others” $8.95 KODT Tales From The Vault $9.95 KODT No.#7 “The Dice Man Cometh!” sold out KODT Bundle of Trouble vol. one $9.95 KODT No.#8 “An Orc By Any Other Name” sold out To purchase back issues, send a check or money order KODT No.#9 “Two Dice For Sister Sara” $7.95 (made payable to Kenzer and Company) to: KODT No.#10 “Let the Dice Fall Where They May” $7.95 ______________________ KODT No.#11 “When in Doubt: Hack!!” $4.95 Kenzer & Company KODT No.#12 “The Good, The Bad, and the Unlucky!” $5.95 Mail Order Fulfillments 2094 Camino a los Cerros, Menlo Park, CA 94025 KODT No.#13 “Men That Hack” $4.95 _______________________ KODT No.#14 “A Fist Full of Dice and a Bad Attitude” $4.95 KODT No.#15 “Mama Told Me not to Play” $4.95 KODT No.#16 “The Dice of Wrath” $2.95 or fax/E-mail [[email protected]] a valid Visa, MasterCard, or Discover card KODT No.#17 “This Sword for Hire!” $2.95 number, your signature, card type and expiration date to us at (650) 233-8270. KODT No.#18 “Against All Odds” $2.95 Please include $2 per Vault or Bundle of Trouble, $1 for the first comic and 50¢ per additional comic for shipping and handling. you say you got a chip on your shoulder because you MISSED issues one thru three of KODT?? Sample file well we got the cure right here, bub!! ONLY $9.95 • 96 trouble-packed pages of classic KODT!!! • a complete compilation of issues 1, 2 and 3!! • PLUS!!! an all new story never before seen!! AVAILABLE NOW AT YOUR LOCAL GAME SHOP! Knights of the 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 T Our Readers Talk Back! T Dear KODT, Well, let's start off with the usual: I love Knights of the ABLE TALK: READERABLE TALK: MAIL First off, I would like to say how much me and my girl friend Dinner Table, it's the best comic I've read in a long time. 'Nuff READERABLE TALK: MAIL enjoy your series. We both know people that are exactly like the said. I started reading it when I started working at the new KODT group, which makes us laugh all the more. Wizards of the Coast Game Center in Seattle, WA. (Way to Adin Hunter Baber drop names, eh?) They had issues 7 and 8 in the break room [email protected] and I was simply dying over them during my lunch breaks. To A few months ago, we began to notice that many fans men- this day, issue 7 is still my favorite; Armload of Trouble, A Call tion they read KODT with their wives or girlfriends.
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