Knights of the Dinner Table: Bundle of Trouble, Vol. 2

Knights of the Dinner Table: Bundle of Trouble #2

by Jolly Roger Blackburn, Brian Jelke, Steve Johansson

Bundle of Trouble Vol 2 is a trade compilation of Knights of the Dinner Table issues 4-6 with extra features including the story of "Carvin Marvin" and extensive character biographies. Knights of the Dinner Table is the longest running comic on the subject of games ever! Though B.A., Brian, Bob, Dave and Sara may play different characters in different games, their personalities always shine through. KoDT also features articles for gamers from a gamer's perspective. A hilarious and hysterical slice of (fantasy) life in strips and a wonderful celebration of the gaming culture.

Genres: Humor, Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Gaming, Games, Role Playing Games

96 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2005

Reviews

[Storm Bookwyrm · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dungeons and Dragons was always the sort of thing I WANTED to participate in when I was younger, but beyond a single game that never got farther than its character creation session, I never actually did any real roleplaying until I was well into adulthood. And yet the obsession with it dogged me constantly, teasing me from the occasional issues of gaming magazines I could get my hands on, or tempting me with all the monsters that filled the pages of the AD&D Monster Manual I purchased. Without ever actually playing Dungeons and Dragons, I somehow infused my childhood with the nostalgia for it, and now, as an adult, I feel delighted by the mad world of RPG's that existed prior to the 2000's.

Knights of the Dinner Table thus feels like a familiar, yet also foreign peek into the humor of roleplaying games, in a cozily dated way. It is everything one EXPECTS from the stereotypes; there is a single girl at the table, who is reasonable and level-headed compared to the pedantically neurotic and self-sabotaging man-children who compose the other players, prioritizing the symbolic reward of 'XP' and non-existence money over the actual pursuit of a good time. They're all caricatures, and yet, since becoming a DM myself (or rather, in the parlance of my game of choice, a 'keeper'), I see the essence of the knights' Dungeonmaster in myself and the players in those I serve; even if the times have changed, some things remain the same.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the sequence where Weird Pete makes the players atone for every act of murder hoboing. And the warnings related to intelligent weapons.

[Marko · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny. And sometimes way too accurate.

[Gilbert Burns · Rating 5 out of 5]

Same old antics from the gang.

[Dustin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I fun (and often sadly accurate) poking fun of the RPG sub-culture.

[Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Laugh out loud funny.

[Morbus Iff · Rating 4 out of 5]

My utter failure to play regularly has me jonesing for playing-by-proxy. This works.