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World Wide Web: http://members.aol.com/relkin/ken zerco.html Submissions: We accept submissions for strip ideas, jokes, cartoons, etc. We are interested in “We are the thin veil, who running anything that other hold back the night!! gamers and fans would enjoy. We are the men who hack, Send a S.A.S.E. for writer’s turning wrong to right” guidelines. NSB Academy Cadence Song Editorial of a Madman Annoying Answers for some Nagging Questions! ne of the things I had hoped to squeeze into the weeks he drifts away from the game, gets a job, finds a Tales from the Vault compilation (See the ad on girl friend etc. (In short he ‘finds a life’ outside the Opage 4) was a list of frequently-asked-questions game). B.A.’s solution is to lure him back to the table with answers. It seems every email and letter we receive where Dave’s character stumbles across a HackMaster has one or more questions tagged on, almost as an +13. afterthought. In the KODT strip that ran in Shadis #21 as the Well, one man’s oversight is another man’s filler group is reminicsing about past games, there seems to material. So I thought I would devote some space to be a hint that Brian was the original GM for the answer some of those questions. Now you can annoy group and that he may have even been B.A.’s your friends at the gaming table with a little KODT mentor?? What’s up with that? How come Brian trivia. doesn’t GM anymore? What do the letters B.A. stand for in B.A. Felton’s Yes, Brian introduced B.A. to role-playing (and name? HackMaster). That’s why he seems to know the rules B.A.’s full name is Boris Alphonzo Felton. It’s not frontwards and back. Many readers have commented hard to understand why he prefer’s to be called B.A. In that Brian often seems like a back-seat driver, constantly grade school, his classmates contracted his first and giving B.A. advice on how to run a game and questioning his calls. middle name and simply called him, Bozo. Why doesn’t Brian ever GM?? He had a bad Apparently a rumor is running around that the letters experience at GaryCon 89 running a sanctioned stand for “Bad Attitude”. I’m not sure how that one got HackMaster tournament. There scars were deep enough started. Brian quit role-playing for nearly a year. (Which is why Why does Dave always have a HackMaster +12 (a Brian does not appear in the first KODT strip). He rare relic) even when he is playing a new character? finally came back to the table as a player but to this day How come he doesn’t loose his sword when the has refused to sit behind the GM screen. (An upcoming owning character dies? issue of KODT will, however, feature Brian’s come-back Good question! If you read the expanded bios in the as a GM). Tales from the Vault there’s a clue. It comments how If you have other questions you’d like to see answers Dave used to “miss two gaming sessions for every for send them end. Hopefully, in the near future, we will session he attended”. post a complete FAQ on our website. That all changed when his character (El Ravager) found a HackMaster +12 sword (May 5, 1987 7:45 Good Reading, EST). From that point on Dave has rarely missed a game. The truth is, B.A. uses the HackMaster+12Sample as a file carrot to keep Dave interested in the game. Jolly R. Blackburn In an unpublished strip I did a few years ago, Dave October 15, 1997 does indeed loose his HackMaster. In the following ROLE-PLAYING GAMES THAT SHOULD NEVER BE: PART ONE “DAS BOOT: THE RPG” OKAY, YOU SEE THIS CLASS I DON’T CARE IF IT ENCHANCES THE ONE DESTROYER REALISM OF THE GAME!!! I’M NOT BEARING DOWN ON YOU - 2000 CLIMBING UNDER THE TABLE EVERYTIME OUR SUB DIVES!!! METERS AND CLOSING!!! DIVE! DIVE¡ DIVE¡ HARD-RUDDER RIGHT 45 DEGREES!!! TAKE ME TO 80 METERS!!!! NO TIME TO TALK Fräulein !!! FLOOD TORPEDO TUBES 3 AND 4 WHILE I WORK OUT A TARGET- SOLUTION FOR THAT DESTROYER!!! Ja Kapitän !!!! HARD-RUDDER RIGHT 45 DEGREES!!!! WE GOT SONAR PING!!! CRIES FROM THE ATTIC Our Readers Talk Back! T Dear KODT, reminds me how the group should return to Call of I was at Gen Con, my first year, and, regretably, did not get Cuthulhu. READERABLE TALK: MAIL into KODT while I was there. My brother snagged your Speaking of that system, here is a short story, which a comics while there and I had an order form shoved into my friend told to me. At a convention, there were 4 games of hand while I was passing your booth. I looked at an issue (#5 Call of Cuthulhu in the same large room. At one point, a I think) on the plane, and, by my next paycheck (I blew my player in game #1 says "Hastur." [Big trouble in the CoC entire wad at Gen Con) I had ordered issues 2 through 10, world.] Tales from the Vault, and a year subscription.