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Knights of the Dinner Table #254 CONTENTS ISSUE 254: SAMURAI HACK REGULAR COLUMNS 46 Tales from the Table DEPARTMENTS Actual Tales from the Gaming Table 57 Web Scryer 4 Cries from the Attic by Ken Newquist Drawing Fantasy Maps Editorial of a madman GAMEMASTER’S WORKSHOP 5 Table Talk: Letters Page 39 Denizens of Tellene Our readers talk back Hezra and Dajel Weynot by Barb Blackburn 48 All Things Magic 60 Back Room at the Games Pit Dwarven Caltrops by Nate Parker An opinion arena where Bait & Tackle readers can sound off 49 Adventure hooks on the fly 62 Weird Pete’s Bulletin Board 51 Deadly Trappings Classified ads, personals and other strangeness Push Wall by J.L. Duncan SPECIAL FEATURES 31 REVIEWS Companions Through Necessity Sample file 52 Lost Game Safari A solo fantasy adventure by Alan Hume by Mark Dowson Time Tripper 55 Indy Game Scene by J.L. Duncan 41 Blood Shadows 3rd ed. 58 Off the Shelf Gaming the by Noah Chinn Comics Artemis Terminal City 59 Brian’s Picks by James Davenport The Resistance, Machi Koro, Down Darker Trails © Copyright 2018, Kenzer and Company, All Rights Reserved. Knights of the Dinner Table® magazine (ISSN 1526-307X) is published monthly by Kenzer and Company, 1659 N Claremont Ave, Chicago, IL 60647. LEGAL NOTICE: Knights of the Dinner Table, HackMaster and Kingdoms of Kalamar are registered trademarks of Kenzer and Company. Samurai Hack™, All Things Magic, Back Room at the Games Pit, Bait and Tackle, Board Squawk, Brian’s Small Press Picks, Celebrity Hack, Cries from the Attic, Deadly Trappings, Disks of Wondrous Power, GameMasters’ Workshop, Game Mechanic, Gamer Pulpit, GameVine, Gaming the Movies, Gary Jackson Files, Hacklopedia of Beasts, Hard Eight Enterprises, kenzerco.com, KODT, Lookin’ at Comics, Off the Shelf, One-Two Punches, Parting Shots, Players’ Advantage, Radio Free KODT, Retro-KODT, RFKODT, Rustlers of the Night, SpellJacked, Summon Web Scryer, Table Talk, Tales from the Table, The Gamer’s Rant on the Movies/TV. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The “Indy” Game Scene, the Kenzer and Company Logo, The Quotable Gamer, Weird Pete’s Bulletin Board, W.W.A.G.D. and all promi- nent characters and likenesses thereof are trademarks of Kenzer and Company. 2 Knights of the Dinner Table® #254 COMIC STRIPS ® KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE PUBLISHER Kenzer and Company 9 Pleased to Meet You EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jolly R. Blackburn • [email protected] 15 My Little Power ASSISTANT EDITOR 17 Glad We Had This Talk Barbara Blackburn • [email protected] 18 Wild Card KODT DEVELOPMENT TEAM Jolly R. Blackburn • Steve Johansson 23 The Tic to the Tock David S. Kenzer • Brian Jelke • Barbara Blackburn (+1) 28 Three Klicks HACKMASTER EDITOR Steve Johansson • [email protected] KODT STRIP ART Jolly R. Blackburn 63 One-Two Punches COVER ART Ben Sharef CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS Brendon Fraim • Brian Fraim Bill “Indy” Cavalier Jolly Blackburn • Neal Byles David Milburn CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Kenneth Newquist • Noah Chinn • Nate Parker Barbara Blackburn • Jolly R. Blackburn • James Davenport J.L. Duncan • Alan Hume • Chris Wilkes OTHER TOONS Mark Dowson • Andy Miller SALES/MARKETING/ADVERTISING 64 Additional Cartoons Steve Johansson • [email protected] • (847) 858-6847 Bill “Indy” Cavalier, Neal Byles, SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES [email protected] David Milburn. CHARMED PERSONS Sample file Kevin Vance • Jack Grayson • Craig Zipse PRINTED IN U.S.A. ABOUT Postmaster: Send address changes to: THE COVER Knights of the Dinner Table 1659 N CLAREMONT AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60647 This month’s cover by Ben E-Mail: [email protected] • Phone: 847.858.6847 Sharef tickled us when it World Wide Web: www.kenzerco.com came across our desk. Submissions: We accept submissions for strip ideas, jokes, cartoons, Serene yet disturbing. etc. We are interested in running anything that other gamers and fans would enjoy. Check out our website for writer’s guidelines. Dave looks the part of a Samurai and anything but Subscriptions: A standard 12-issue monthly subscription is only — all at the same time. $77.99 (or $65.99 for slower bulk mail shipping). [US $92.99 for Canada or US $117.99 for other foreign locations.] 6- and 24-issue subscriptions are also available. To subscribe, order by credit card at our online store at HTTP://WWW.KENZERCO.COM or send a check or money order (made payable to Kenzer and Company) to: NIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE™ was accidentally created by Jolly R. Blackburn Kway back in 1990 as ‘filler’ for his small press magazine, Shadis. It was Kenzer & Company KODT Subscriptions, something of a ‘creative burp’ and Jolly really didn’t give it much thought. 1659 N Claremont Ave, Chicago, IL 60647 Perhaps that’s why he was just as surprised as anyone that soon KODT was overshadowing everything else he’d ever done and that the created was now Back Issues: Older issues and other KODT merchandise are avail- able for direct purchase on our website at HTTP://WWW.KENZERCO.COM controlling the creator. The Knights have gone far beyond anything Jolly or the D-Team (David Kenzer, Brian Jelke, Steve Johansson and Barbara Blackburn) ever imagined. In 2006, Jolly was ATTENTION RETAILERS: If you are having difficulty getting our inducted into the Hall of Fame. Now, with over 254 issues and over 78 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® #254 3 OLD MAN TAKE A LOOK AT MY LIFE... elcome back! It might be an indication of As I’ve written many times before, every month when how my mind thinks, but as I sat down to I sit down to pen this page, I’m aware this could be the Wwrite this editorial I did some quick math last. And it very well might be if not for the fact so many and realized that this is the 275th editorial I’ve written of you pick up this comic every month — be it at your under the moniker of, “Cries From the Attic” in the last favorite local gamestore or from your mailbox (courtesy twenty-eight years. (Twenty one in SHADIS and SHADIS of our subscription option.). So thank you. present and 254 issues of Knights. Wait— there are No, seriously. Thank you for deeming this publication scores of such editorials in Bundles of Trouble, Tales and our hard work worthy of your six bucks month after from the Vault and various special issues. Okay — I’ve month. written a LOT of editorials under the banner above over the years (math was never my strong suit). Because of you, we are fortunate because we are able I suppose my mind thinks like it does because regard- to do what we love. Write and draw comics, create and less of how long I’ve been doing this job, the thought play games, mingle and fellowship with other gamers at that it can all end at any time never really stops naggin’ cons — continually meeting and making new friends. me in the back of my mind. Publications come and go as I don’t have to think hard to realize that most of the interest in them wax and wane. I know. Because too good friends, I count in my life today were made either many of my favorite comics and zines have disappeared directly through playing games, making them or writing over the years. about them in this comic. KODT has been a blessing. Especially in these times. Print advertising is all but And this editorial seems vaguely familiar — it’s dead, and the tug of war between dead tree and ebook because I’ve probably expressed the same sentiments seems to be forever fraught with pitfalls. Then there’s here over the years more than a few times. the enormity of the content glut out there — on every It’s because the sentiment is real, and it’s often on my front! mind. With that said, I sincerely hope you enjoy this Be it music, blogs, television, movies, games, comics issue. and on and on. Add to the pile patreon, kickstarter, online subscriptions... There is a LOT of competitionSample for Until file next time — may all your hits be crits! eyeballs as well dollars. The brightest minds wrestle with that dilemma. Jolly R. Blackburn Which brings me back to this editorial. March 28, 2018 Twenty Years Ago This Month: KODT #17. Technically the first appearance of Squirrely in the comic. Prior to this he was only mentioned by name. — Jolly 4 Knights of the Dinner Table® #254 right you are, ba. something HAS gone wrong. ABANDON SHIP...¿¡¡ that RINGING in your EARS....? lookin’ for a WEAPONS \-\ CHECK the LOCKER, here, sara. SOP to see what you now realize it’s we should do. an EMERGENCY KLAXON. checkin’ the is there one COMPUTER of those CONSOLE. all but drowning were we EVACUATION out the voice of the TRAINED ROUTE charts MARGOLLA which on this...? on the door? do we have any has been saying... COMMUNICATIONS? “WARNING! ABANDON SHIP!” Looking like this is going to be more than Chapter 9, pg 106, first sentence: a just a few installments, which is good. It’s "Sergeant Robert Herzog was sweating nice to have the gang tossing dice and bullets." seated again and it’s also nice that they are EDITOR’S NOTE: The mail just playing in the scifi genre. never seems to stop. While we As for Sara’s gamemastering style, I love make every effort to read each and it.
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