Please note that KODT 153 is available only as a PDF. The print copy is sold out.
Knights of the Dinner Table is a multiple award-winning magazine
featuring the gaming industry’s most popular comic strip, as well as being a
full-fledged gaming magazine featuring d20, HackMaster and
other articles for gamers, from a gamer’s perspective. Not only do thousands of
gamers read KoDT and share it with their friends, they re-read it cover to cover
and then re-read it again. Don't miss this hilarious and hysterical slice of
(fantasy) life, and wonderful celebration of the gaming culture!
KoDT #153 (July 2009) TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Strips
- The Assignment
- a Hard Eight Enterprises strip featuring: Tuley, Pete Skipowsky, Edmund Finley, Reynolds, and Heidi Jackson.
- Heidi's demands for paperwork make Skip nervous.
- The Absentee
- a Knights strip: Sara runs Dave's character "El Mardico".
- The Road to Hack
- a Games Pit/Road Hack strip featuring: Weird Pete, Tank, Sheila, Stevil, and Brian.
- The final four contenders square off.
- Keep It Safe
- a Hard Eight Enterprises strip featuring: Gary Jackson, JoJo Zeke, and Waco Bob.
- Guess who bought DAWG: the RPG?
- Pedal to the Metal
- a Games Pit/Road Hack strip featuring: Weird Pete, Tank, Sheila, Stevil, and Brian.
- What can Brian do with no weapons and no actions...?
One-Two Punches
Feature Articles
- The DawgFather {an adventure for Dawg the RPG} by Jerimy Grafenstein [order this as a PDF HERE]
- Diseases in HackMaster Basic (includes a new cleric option [Mangrus, aka the Rotlord], a new cleric spell [Contagion], and six new diseases) {HackMaster Basic} by Kenzer and Company
GameMaster's Workshop
- Deadly Trappings: Bag Rippers {fantasy;
systemless} by Barbara Blackburn
- Casting Call: Madam Barburry {HackMaster Basic} by Barbara Blackburn
- All Things Magic: Sword of Justice {systemless} by William Wiardo
- Bait and Tackle: Generic Adventure Hooks and Encounters for the GM to run with {fantasy; systemless}
- GMW: The Art of WaRPGs Part II {fantasy; systemless} by Jeff Phillips
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Stosh, Anok Gannoirs, The Ravens {HackMaster Basic} by Jolly and Barbara Blackburn
- Rustlers of the Night: Riding Horses, Ponies, and related information {HackMaster Basic} by Kenzer and Company
Regular Columns
- Tales from the Table: Actual tales from our readers
- Web Scryer: Virtual Battlefields surfed by Kenneth Newquist
- Geek Fu Action Grip: Stop Throwing Me Bones! observed
by Mur Lafferty
- Gaming the Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean by Jim Davenport
Reviews
- Lost Game Safari: D&D Basic
scouted by Andy Miller
- Lookin' at Comics: Space, Monsters scrutinized by Tony DiGerolamo
- Special Review: True Realm explained by Mike Steele (You can also download this article as a PDF by clicking here)
- The “Indy” Game Scene: Nine Worlds explored by Ashok Desai
- Disks of Wondrous Power: E3 Lives! played by Rick Moscatello
- Board Squawk: Incan Gold boarded by Nick Medinger
- Off the Shelf: The Wyvern's Spur by Alan Moore read by Paul Westermeyer
- Brian's Picks: Towers of Adventure, With Great Power, Say Anything
Departments
- Cries from the Attic: Editorial of a madman
- Table Talk: Our Readers Talk Back
- Behind the Curtain:
- Game Vine
- Weird Pete's Bulletin Board
- Back Room at the Games Pit
- Parting Shots
Other Toons
- Always Something by the Brothers Grimm
- Unnamed cartoons by Chris Avellone, Indy Bill, Robert Grover, Carl Evans, and Scot Krol
80 pages, b&w
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