Knights Of The Dinner Table

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Knights of the Dinner Table is one of the earliest "tabletop gamer culture" oriented comedy comics. Created by Jolly Blackburn, it's been running since 1990. The focus of the comedy is the antics of a city's gamer sub-culture, specifically one of the more dysfunctional gaming groups, and the hilarity that results from their efforts at actually playing through various games.

The titular Knights are the prime focus of the comic, obviously, and mostly involve themselves with an old-school D&D 1e/2e pastiche called "Hackmaster". They consist of the following:

  • Boris Alphonzo Felton: Long-suffering GM to the Knights, who frequently watches as his intricately planned games are brought down in flames by the malignant cunning, violent sociopathy or sheer stupidity of his players. A would-be game designer who failed.
  • Robert Samuel Herzog: A short-tempered, paranoid, impulsive adherent to the "old school" (ie: kill stuff and loot their shit) approach to RPing. One of the primary wreckers of B.A's games due to his first reaction to just about anything being to try and kill it.
  • David Harcord Bozwell: Youngest member of the Knights and Herzog's partner in crime, being of a similar "I'm here to kill shit, not talk things over" mindset that means he gets bored whenever the game isn't in combat.
  • Sara Felton: B.A's cousin, the only female member of the Knights, the only Real Roleplayer in the group, and the long-suffering, vainly attempting voice of reason.
  • Brian Montgomery VanHoose: A burnt out GM turned Rules Lawyer and Power Gamer, Brian is the smartest player (alongside Sara), but just as willing to screw B.A over for the sake of "winning" the game.