Knights of the Dinner Table: Difference between revisions

* [[Flipping the Table|Flipping The Table]]: Brian does this when upset too much. Bob has done it upon occasion, too.

* [[Formally-Named Pet]]: BA's cat is Colonel Prowler.

* [[Game Breaker]]: Brian himself counts, not to mention the many characters and schemes he cooks up.

** Dave's Hackmaster+12.

* [[Hanging Judge]]: Weird Pete when he is presiding over 'Gamer's Court'.

* [[The Hard Hat]]: A throwaway gag in a filler strip has Newt claiming his character is crouching real low and taking cover behind his 'kevlar watch cap'.

* [[High Class Call Girl]]: Trish

* [[Hooker With a Heart of Gold]]: Trish

* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: Weird Pete, in relation to his store. Brian also shows these tendencies.

* [[Human Notepad]]: Brian carves his character's spells into the backs of Bob and Dave's characters so he could always have access to spells.

** Pixie runes of shame being tattooed on the party's buttocks are a common occurrence (along with the [[Cherry Tapping|one point of damage]] that comes along with it).

** People on the wrong end of Bob's or Stevil's wrath will often end up going through one of these, as well.

* [[Killer Rabbit]]: The squirrel as fifth level monster from "The Most Dangerous (Small) Game".

** Also B.A. seems to believe that llamas have antlers and gore people and his campaign reflects this. The magazine has occasionally published reprints of newspaper articles about people being injured in llama attacks further confusing matters.

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: The Knights are frickin' MADE of this trope.

* [[Literally Shattered Lives]]: After a long, ''long'' rules debate over who got turned to stone by a gorgon, BA decides it's Brian. The gorgon has a morning star. Piece it together. Also, [[It Got Worse]] when all of the flesh-to-stone transformations were reversed.

* [[Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher]]: Patty actually '''is''' a kindergartern tecaher. However, she has difficulties turning the attitude off and ends up treating her gaming group like a bunch of preschoolers, including a 'Time Out Corner' with '5 points to ponder'.

* [[Mistaken for Terrorist]]: Happens in the November 2011 issue when the group plays a real-life based [[Zombie Apocalypse]] game of [[Call of Cthulhu|Screams of Kachuloo]]. Brian's frequent Internet searches for bomb-making and the layout for the local mall (for the game) throws up red flags with Homeland Security. A more experienced member of the department sees that the address is in gamer-heavy Muncie, Indiana and calls off the team. They've been burned there before many times...

* [[Mock Guffin]]

* [[Moral Myopia]]: All NPCs are just there to be killed or to suck up to them. But the Untouchable Trio (plus one) are brave and noble heroes, never forget that.

* [[Off the Rails]]: The Knights do this to BA constantly.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Sara. BA takes over this role when she takes the role as DM.

* [[Paintball Episode]]: "Last Man Standing"

* [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]]: the strip "Lair of the Gazebo" has the Knights mistaking a gazebo for a savage beast.

{{quote| Sara: "I WASTE HIM WITH MY LONGBOW!!"}}

** Immediately topped by the [[Humiliation Conga]] the Knights put Troy's Boys through for treating Sara like that. It was bloodless, but after {{spoiler|being kidnapped, having one of their heads badly shaved, and dumped in the labyrinthine steam tunnels with a map that led them to an exit outside a bikers' bar, where the bartender had been paid to take pictures of them after they emerged}}, they might've preferred death.

* [[The Roleplayer]]: Sara at the Knight's table is a positive example of this trope. Cody, a local community theater actor, is a more over the top negative example.

* [[Rules Lawyer]]: Brian

* [[The Scrooge]]: Brian. Its how he stays afloat, but its also leads to him shamelessly pumping cash out of his friends when he can get away with it.

* [[Second Face Smoke]]: Gary Jackson, being a [[Jerkass]], smokes at the gaming table and sometimes blows smoke into the faces of his players; usually to emphasise some point.

* [[Serious Business]]: Gaming in Muncie is very serious business. There are codes of honor. Their gaming association, the HPMA, issues binding judgments. The playtesting is done in "gulags" with the Hard 8 staff occasionally having to put down rebellions. The players take extensive pains to document their games to keep their groups official with the HPMA.

** Brian once hired an attorney to review a pages long and carefully worded (using no punctuation, so as to keep it within the "one sentence" limit) Wish. When a panicked B.A. calls an emergency council of gamemasters to review the document, one of them consults a ''Hackmaster legal dictionary.''

** See also B.A.'s [[Shmuck Bait]] entry above. The story started with showing just how much time and care went into making that dungeon, only for those three fools to kill the whole party right off the bat on the ''waste disposal system''.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Earl Slackmozer

* [[Speech-Impaired Animal]]: Squirrely, possibly.

* [[Stay in The Kitchen]]: Bob has a very dim view of women playing RPGs (to say nothing of [[D Ming]] them), and was prone to being very condescending to Sara, particularly in the early days of her membership in the Knights. (Dave and Brain have also shown signs of this attitude, but to a much lesser extent.) Thanks to Sara's general skill, this view has been mostly overcome. (Or at least Bob has learned not to be so vocal about it. See [[Berserk Button]] above.)