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Knights of the Dinner Table #23 Inner Able Dice Follies! September, 1998 Created by Jolly R Kingdoms of Kalamar Deluxe Boxed Set $29.95 In addition to both of the campaign sourcebooks (Mythos of the Divine and Worldly and Sourcebook of the Sovereign Lands), the Kingdoms of Kalamar boxed set contains two gorgeous 24” x 36” full color maps depicting the lands of Tellene. These maps are printed on extra heavy stock and have been recognized as the finest fantasy maps on the market.A hex grid overlay is provided to protect these treasures. Mythos of the Divine and Worldly This 88 page guidebook painstakingly describes the 44 deities and religions of Tellene. Volume II also includes details on Tellene’s major secret organizations, rune-sets for 11 languages, constellations, astronomical marvels and an all-inclusive eight page index. $10.95 Sourcebook of the Sovereign Lands This 100 page tome details the history of the peoples and nations of Tellene. From the depths of the mysterious Vohven Jungle to the vast savanna of the Drhokker horse-lords, this book describes every kingdom, race and topographical feature of Kalamar’s world. $11.95 The Kingdoms of Kalamar K&C101 Tragedy in the House of Brodeln $9.95 Sample file A 1st-3rd level adventure set in Kalamar, this K&C102 Secret Temple of Adajy $9.95 adventure supplement is made expressly for A mid to high level adventure set in use with HackMaster, AD&D or any other Kalamar, this adventure supplement is fantasy RPG. This 56 page adventure made expressly for use with HackMaster, contains: ImageQuest adventure illustrator, 5 AD&D or any other fantasy RPG. Similar player aids and handouts, NPC portraits and in style to Tragedy in the House of Brodeln, backgrounds, a flowchart for a dificult this exciting 72 page adventure contains two encounter, encounter tables, a full glossary, a complete and distinct dungeon adventures complete village, a timeline of events, 8 3- in addition to the extras you expect from Dimensional dungeon maps, and 5 sample Kenzer & Company: the ImageQuest player characters with complete backgrounds. adventure illustrator, player aids and hand- outs, NPC portraits and backgrounds, encounter tables, a full glossary, a city and K&C201 GameMasters WorkShop $9.95 10 maps. volume one: Beneath the Waves Game Master’s Workshop (GMW) is a series of source material designed for use with any role-playing system. This edition of GMW is set in the Kingdoms of Kalamar Fantasy Campaign setting in Whimdol Bay on the southern shores of the Elos Desert. Standard features of GMW include Close Encounters of a Random Kind (random encounter or event tables), Bait, Snare &Bag (brief plot lines for adventures presented in a simple format) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (detailed descriptions of NPC personalities, motivations and basic abilities). A multitude of new items (both normal and magic), spells, races and monsters are also included. This volume describes a detailed society of Mermen including their lives, their interactions with surface dwellers, and both the mundane and extraordinary plights they face. © Copyright 1998 Kenzer and Company. All rights reserved. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is a registered trademark of Wizards of the Coast. Use of this trademark is NOT sanctioned by the holder. Mythos of the Divine and Worldly, Sourcebook of the Sovereign Lands, HackMaster, ImageQuest, Tragedy in the House of Brodeln, Secret Temple of Adajy, Game Master’s Workshop, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Bait, Snare & Bag, Close Encounters of a Random Kind and the Kingdoms of Kalamar are trademarks of Kenzer and Company. Knights of the KENZER & TM COMPANY D T Knights of the Dinner Table #23 inner able Dice Follies! September, 1998 Created by Jolly R. Blackburn _________________________ © Copyright 1998, Kenzer and Company, All Rights Reserved. Knights of the Dinner Table™ magazine is published monthly by Kenzer and Company. “Dice“Dice Follies!”Follies!” Subscriptions: A one year sub- scription (12 issues) is only $32.00 (US $36.00 in Canada and US The KODT DEVELOPMENT TEAM is $50.00 Overseas). To subscribe, send a check or Jolly R. 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Logo, and all prominent characters and likenesses THE SUBSTITUTE thereof are trademarks of Kenzer bob fills in weird pete’s empty chair . .12 and Co. Gamin’Dick is a trademark A MAN OUT STANDING IN HIS FIELD of Berkeley Game Distributors and the black hands RAZ bob . .14 is used with their permission. Mailing Address: Kenzer and IT TAKES A THIEF! Company, 2094 Camino a los there’s no place like home for good ‘ol knuckles . .18 Cerros, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Phone/fax: (650) 233-8270. THE UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER Internet: [email protected] SLACKMOZER??!! . .24 (editorial inquiries only) or HEARD IT ON THE GAMEVINE™ [email protected] (all other news, rumors and industry buzz plucked from the vine . .26 inquiries). 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You may also E-mail [email protected] Editorial of a Madman “Looks like Joe Gamer still has a soft spot for newsprint and Zip-loc bags!” Troy Spencer, USC gamer he other day I had an opportunity to hang with a group of good old fashioned beer-and-pretzel games. This isn’t to say gamers in Columbia, South Carolina who had turned out that there aren’t some great games coming out of the other Tto get their copies of KODT autographed and to [hopeful- design shops out there. I’m also a big fan of ArchAngel’s Groo ly] prod me into playing a few games. card game, WotC’s Twitch and Guillotine card games, Looney Recently, I’ve rediscovered my love of board games (and Lab’s Aquarius, Out of the Box’s Bosworth, Atlas Games’ traditional card games) so I was looking forward to getting a Spammers and Lunch Money and many, many others. chance to play a few. In fact, I had even brought a huge stack I’m just using Cheapass to illustrate a point. You see, of board and card games with me which I had picked up at someone at Cheapass figured out what so many game compa- some of the summer conventions. When I mentioned that I nies have forgotten in recent years – the Game is the thing! If had this horde-of-games sitting in the back of my van, I was you’ve got a fun, solid game the packaging is..uh...well, it’s quickly shoved out the front door to retrieve them. It was only just that - packaging. Sure, there are marketing considerations. after I had hauled the games in and set them on the table that I Good packaging can move a product, we all understand that. realized just how large my horde really was. “The Jol- But I’m of the opinion that having a ‘good game’ can move a Meister”, as one drooling gamer put it, ‘has made out!!” product even faster! There were some ooooo’s and aaaaah’s from the group My game shelf is filled with pretty games which promised since many of the games had not showed up in the local game to be entertaining. Sadly, many of those same games just sit shops yet. Then, without warning, there was a mad scramble there and gather dust. as everyone started popping open boxes, examining counters So...when I saw the list of winners for the Origins Awards, and game components, flipping through rule sheets and com- I said a silent, “YESSSSS!” when I learned that both Doctor menting on the quality of the games and the beautiful graph- Lucky and Give Me the Brain had taken the awards for Best ics. It was literally Christmas in July and I was enjoying my Abstract Boardgame and Best Traditional Boardgame hero-for-a-day status as Gamer Santa. respectfully. Now I have to point out that there were some very impres- As one of the Carolinian Gamers commented as we were sive games on that table, at least one of them [a European playing Doctor Lucky, “Looks like Joe Gamer still has a soft import] was a sixty dollar game! Many of the others were in spot for newsprint and Zip-loc bags! I wish the big guys the thirty dollar range.
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