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KODT No.#4 “Have Dice Will Travel” $5.95 KODT No.#21 “Home is Where You Hang Yer Dice Bag” $2.95 KODT No.#5 “Master of the Game” sold out KODT No.#22 “Opportunity Knocks!!” $2.95 KODT No.#6 “Plays Well With Others” sold out KODT No.#23 “Dice Follies!” $2.95 KODT No.#7 “The Dice Man Cometh!” sold out KODT Tales From The Vault $9.95 KODT No.#8 “An Orc By Any Other Name” sold out KODT Bundle of Trouble vol. one $9.95 KODT No.#9 “Two Dice For Sister Sara” sold out To purchase back issues, send a check or money order KODT No.#10 “Let the Dice Fall Where They May” sold out (made payable to Kenzer and Company) to: KODT No.#11 “When in Doubt: Hack!!” $4.95 ______________________ KODT No.#12 “The Good, The Bad, and the Unlucky!” $5.95 Kenzer & Company KODT No.#13 “Men That Hack” $6.95 Mail Order Fulfillments 2094 Camino a los Cerros, Menlo Park, CA 94025 KODT No.#14 “A Fist Full of Dice and a Bad Attitude” $7.95 _______________________ KODT No.#15 “Mama Told Me not to Play” $19.95 KODT No.#16 “The Dice of Wrath” $3.95 KODT No.#17 “This Sword for Hire!” $3.95 or fax/E-mail [[email protected]] a valid Visa, MasterCard, or Discover card KODT No.#18 “Against All Odds” $3.95 number, your signature, card type and expiration date to us at (650) 233-8270. KODT No.#19 “Heroes of the HackLeague” $2.95 Please include $2 per Vault or Bundle of Trouble, $1 for the first KODT No.#20 “Hack in Space!” $2.95 comic and 50¢ per additional comic for shipping and handling. To p Ten reasons to play Monty Python and the Holy Grail 10) We shall say “Ni” to you if you do not appease us! 9) Questions Three Cards - What other CCG requires the players to answer trivia questions as part of the game? Brush up on your Python trivia and you will excel at this facet of the game. 8) Song Cards - Great for games at conventions, bars or anywhere in public. Force your opponent to stand up and sing or they will face the consequences. 7) You get to kill stuff - Knights battling monsters, knights battling other knights, knights battling young virgins. No, scratch the virgins, it’s too perilous. 6) You get to pretend that you are a Frenchman - Play any of the Frenchmen cards and a couple of taunts on your opponent and you may soon believe you actually are an extraordinarily rude Frenchman with a silly accenta, you silly king! We bring role-playing to card games in a hilariousSample way. file 5) One deck per player does it all - Specially designed starter decks allow players to play and win with just one deck. Also, each deck is guaranteed to have at least two of everyone's favorite knights from the round table. 4) You can use the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch and blow thyne enemies to tiny bits. 3) There is but one punishment for setting alight the grail-shaped beacon. Zoot, Dingo and the rest of the young virgins have been very naughty and they must be punished. 2) Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the funniest movie of all time. Each game is like rewriting the script of your favorite movie in your own particular ...um... ahh... Idiom sir?... Yes, idiom! 1) The killer rabbit - It has nasty, big, sharp, pointy teeth and is great fun to throw at your opponent. But remember, in order to run away, you must actually stand up and shout, “Run away! Run away!”. And Now For Something Completely Different..... A Card Game That’s Fun(ny) Collectible Card Game 60 card starter decks $10.95 Available at finer Game Stores or directly from Kenzer and Company. 15 card booster packs $3.45 To purchase cards, send a check or money order (made payable to Kenzer and Company) to: ______________________ Kenzer & Company another fine Kenzer and Company Mail Order Fulfillments product 2094 Camino_______________________ A Los Cerros, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Monty Python and the Holy Grail CCG is produced by Kenzer and or fax/E-mail [[email protected]] a valid Visa, MasterCard, or Discover card number, your signature, Company, the exclusive holder of the worldwide card game license from Python (Monty) pictures, Ltd. Card content and Design © Copyright 1998 card type and expiration date to us at (650) 233-8270. Please include 50¢ per starter deck and Kenzer and Company. All rights reserved. Movie stills © NFTC Ltd. 25¢ per booster pack for shipping and handling. Knights of the TM KENZER & COMPANY Dinner Table Knights of the Dinner Table #24 Hackzilla! October, 1998 _________________________ © Copyright 1998, Kenzer and “Hackzilla!”“Hackzilla!” Company, All Rights Reserved. Knights of the Dinner Table™ magazine is published monthly by The KODT DEVELOPMENT TEAM is Kenzer and Company. Subscriptions: A one year sub- Jolly R. Blackburn, Brian Jelke, scription (12 issues) is only $32.00 Steve Johansson and David S. Kenzer (US $36.00 in Canada and US $50.00 Overseas). To subscribe, send a check or Cover Art by George Vrbanic money order (made payable to Kenzer and Company) to: ______________________ Kenzer & Company TABLE OF CONTENTS KODT Subscriptions, 2094 Camino a los Cerros Cries From the Attic Menlo Park, CA 94025 Editorial of a madman . .2 _______________________ Table Talk or fax a valid Visa, MasterCard, or Reader mail . .3 Discover card number, your signa- When Worlds Collide ture, card type and expiration date b.a. discovers that he and earl aren’t really that different . .5 to us at (650) 233-8270. Back Issues: Back issues and The Gary Jackson Files: Gulag 17 related merchandising are also there’s an uprising in hard 8’s work camps, er summer playtester camps . .10 available. See inside cover of this Bleating to Death issue or our website for details. the elusive 12 point llama strikes . .12 Legal Notice: Knights of the Sample file Dinner Table, Hackzilla!, Game Ultimate Treasure! Vine, Hacknoia, Wadizitz, KODT, the ultimate treasure is knowledge...or is it? . .16 HackMaster, Hard Eight KODT Idea Search Enterprises, Gary Jackson Files, fill in the blanks and send us your own story ideas for kodt . .26 the Kenzer and Company Logo, and all prominent characters and Movies from a Gamer’s Point of View likenesses thereof are trademarks movies subjected to the toughest critic of them all - a gamer! . .27 of Kenzer and Company. Heard it on the Gamevine Mailing Address: Kenzer and news, rumors and industry buzz plucked from the vine . .28 - 29 Company, 2094 Camino a los Cerros, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Brian’s Small Press Picks Phone/fax: (650) 233-8270. brian’s picks of the month for games worth pulling off the shelf . .30 Internet: [email protected] Weird Pete’s Bulletin Board (editorial inquiries only) or pete’s board is jammed with lot’s of interesting things to read. .31 [email protected] (all other inquiries). World Wide Web: Parting Shots™ http://members.aol.com/relkin/ken one last jab at yer funny bone on the way out the door . .32 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 Knights of the Dinner Table™ was created by Jolly R. Blackburn way back in 1990 as [email protected]. ‘filler’ for the small press magazine Shadis™ (which he was publishing out of a spare Advertising: A copy of our latest bedroom). Eight years later, as head writer and creative director for the KODT ad rates can be obtained by writing development team, he continues to draw and write strips for the monthly Knights of the KenzerCo address above or ™ ® ™ calling (650) 233-8270. You may the Dinner Table magazine as well as for Dragon magazine and The Rifter also E-mail [email protected] Sourcebook Series. Editorial of a Madman “Oh man! They trashed it! All those memories — Gone!!” Anonymous Gamer at GenCon ‘98 upon seeing the old MECCA center being demolished. ell, the summer convention season is over!! All of us els of the building. As one gamer put it, “Damn! That’s sad!” here are feeling much the same - grateful for the jour- Throughout the weekend small groups of people could be Wney but very glad to be home where we can settle seen gathering in front of the old site to take pictures, talk of old down for the fall and winter and get back to what we like best - times and to mourn the loss of what many described as an ‘old producing product and writing comic strips. Fortunately, we did- friend’. n’t come home empty handed. Hundreds of fans stopped by our At night, the careful observer, could make out shadows booth to say, “Hey, I got a funny story for you. Maybe you can climbing the barricades around the site and scurrying around the rubble piles collecting small pieces of shattered concrete to take use it!” home as momentos. I even overheard several exhibitors joking All in all it was a great con-season for KenzerCo. We didn’t about packaging the stones and selling them as ‘pieces of gam- take any casualties this year (though Dave Kenzer was nearly ing history’ (at least I think they were joking). beaten to death after telling a complete stranger in an elevator, On the last day of the con one of those ‘scurrying shadows’ “I’m not wearing any underwear!”) and we weren’t asked to gave us one of his momentos.

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