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KoDT #147 TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Strips
• Going In...
  • a Hard Eight Enterprises strip featuring: Tuley and Pete Skipowski.
• A Close Call
  • a World of Hack Kraft strip featuring: Johnny Kizinski, Brian, Weird Pete, Stevil, Pete Skipowski.
• Changin' It Up
  • a Black Hands strip featuring: Nitro, Newt, Gordo, Stevil, and Weird Pete.
• Giving Back
  • a Knights strip featuring: B.A., Sara, Bob, Dave, and Brian.
• Raw Hide
  • a Black Hands strip featuring: Nitro, Newt, Gordo, Stevil, and Weird Pete.
• The Hannibal Carnivale Cruise Hat
  • a Knights strip featuring: B.A., Bob, Dave, Sara, and Brian.
• Return to Rogue's End
  • a Hard Eight Enterprises strip featuring: Pete Skipowski, JoJo Zeke, Edmund, and Waco Bob.
• You Say It's Your Birthday
  • a Knights strip featuring: B.A., Bob, Dave, Sara, and Brian.
• One-Two Punches

Feature Articles
• Tower Power: A Twist on Sanity in d20 {D&D® v3.5 compatible} by Jason Wyant
• Familiars in D&D 4E {D&D® 4E compatible} by Lloyd Brown III

GameMaster's Workshop
• Casting Call: Kelleff {HackMaster® 4th edition} by Barbara Blackburn
• All Things Magic: Kaa's Pipe of Pointing (aka Pipe of Direction) {fantasy; systemless} by Jolly and Barbara Blackburn
• Bait and Tackle: Generic Adventure Hooks and Encounters for the GM to run with {fantasy; systemless}
• Rustlers of the Night: Silk Toad {HackMaster® 4th edition} by Barbara Blackburn
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Tina Goldwin, Tibbles, Dorbie Mundlain {fantasy NPCs; systemless} by Carl Evans
• Deadly Trappings: Magical Rooms {fantasy; systemless} by Todd Cumming

Regular Columns
• Tales from the Table: Actual tales from the tables of our readers
• Web Scryer: Hack the Past with Steampunk surfed by Kenneth Newquist
• Geek Fu Action Grip: Jumping on the Emo Train to Twilight Town observed by Mur Lafferty
• Gaming the Movies: Forbidden Planet by Jim Davenport

Reviews
• Lost Game Safari: Lords of the Middle Sea scouted by Andy Miller
• Lookin' at Comics: Webcomic Extravaganza 2008 scrutinized by Tony Digerolamo
• The Quotable Gamer: A Primer on Gaming Terms explained by William Morgal
• The “Indy” Game Scene: Beast Hunters explored by Ashok Desai
• Disks of Wondrous Power: The Fallout of Oblivionation played by Rick Moscatello
• Board Squawk: Say Anything boarded by Nick Medinger
• Off the Shelf: The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte read by Paul Westermeyer
• Brian's Picks: Zombie Fluxxx, Grave Robbers, Trailer Park Wars

Departments
• Cries from the Attic: Editorial of a madman
• Table Talk: Our Readers Talk Back
• Behind the Curtain: Contributor Biography: Steve Johansson
• Game Vine
• Back Room at the Games Pit
• Weird Pete's Bulletin Board
• Parting Shots

Other Toons
• The Darkness by the Brothers Grimm
• Unnamed cartoons by Chris Avellone, Jolly R. Blackburn, and Scott R. Krol

80 pages, $4.99, b&w

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