History Characters / KnightsOfTheDinnerTable

* TheDoctorDolittle: Dave can understand Squirrely. Of course, Squirrely is unusually intelligent but he doesn't speak english.

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* CloserToEarth: Most of the time, though she has a temper, is not above vengeance, and BA is not far behind her. She most embodies this trope of any character in the series.

Described in his character bios as the first "dues paying" member of the Knights, Bob is a hardcore dedicated hack and slash gamer known for his quick temper and relentless drive. While his in game CatchPhrase is "I waste 'em with my crossbow," his out-of-game motto is "the game must go on." Throughout the series, Bob has told every lie, shirked every responsibility and pulled every trick he can think of to max out his gaming time, estranging him more than once from his father and costing him a respectable job as a claims adjuster. He currently works at Weird Pete's game shop, where he gets paid strictly in game product, which he barters with for some basic necessities (read: more game product), but it's his girlfriend Sheila Horowitz who holds down an actual job and pays their bills. He tends to prefer playing dwarven thieves wielding crossbows, his best-known being a family line all named Knuckles.

* RandomNumberGod: If such a being existed, Bob would be the high priest of Muncie. More than the others, he carefully tracks his dice and has names and personalities assigned to them.

The eponymous gaming group. The Knights were first formed when the players were still young, and has a long storied history. The original Gamemaster was Brian who at one point was running sessions for different subcharters of the group every night of the week (typically the same adventure but tweaked for each different group) until Brian suffered a nervous breakdown and handed the game over to Weird Pete. Eventually, Pete left and B.A. took over and after a couple of subsequent player rotations, the group ended up where it is today.

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Technically an escort with a heart of gold.

Crutch's "friend" and former partner in crime before Crutch went straight. Switch is still a criminal and shown to be disloyal, self serving, and a jerk. He'll commit a crime then sell out his friends for reduced sentences. He's the one who gets Bob to help him plan his heists letting him believe it was for a roleplaying game.

* {{Slapstick}}: Obviously the violence at the game table is comically over the top.

An escort introduced to gaming by Tank. Basically nice.

* Crossplaying: She forced this on the Knights early in the series leading to the creation of a monster in the form of Boberella.

* BFS: His HackMaster +12, of course.

The current Gamemaster and host. B.A. is a timid individual who still lives with his mother and works as an assistant manager at a local Pizza chain. Nearly all his spare time is spent crafting the "perfect" adventure, which proves an act in futility early in the series run but gets better as he takes a firmer line with his players and adapts to their tendencies. While readers are quick to pick up on the Knight's tendency to be paranoid and hack and slash, they're slow to notice that B.A. often encourages it. In his campaign, sometimes the old man begging for coins really is a 10th level monk with an army of beggar mobs at his side. His most notorious [=NPCs=] are Red Gurdy Pickens, a rough and tumble antagonist who just won't die and whom B.A. likes to pull out on occasion to rattle the Knights, and Jonid Coincrawler, a trickster gnome with a track record of bilking the Knights out of their loot.

* HonestRollsCharacter: A gnome named Tar Markvar, one of B.A.'s last and most fondly remembered (by him) player characters.

Described in his character bios as the first "dues paying" member of the Knights, Bob is a hardcore dedicated hack and slash gamer known for his quick temper and relentless drive. While his in game CatchPhrase is "I waste 'em with my crossbow," his out-of-game motto is "the game must go on." Throughout the series, Bob has told every lie, shirked every responsibility and pulled every trick he can think of to max out his time at the table, estranging him more than once from his father and costing him a respectable job as a claims adjuster. He currently works at Weird Pete's game shop, where he gets paid strictly in game product, which he barters with for some basic necessities (read: more game product), but it's his girlfriend Sheila Horowitz who holds down an actual job and pays their bills. He tends to prefer playing dwarven thieves wielding crossbows, his best-known being a family line all named Knuckles.

The current Gamemaster and host. B.A. is a timid individual who still lives with his mother and works as an assistant manager at a local Pizza chain. Nearly all his spare time is spent crafting the "perfect" adventure, which proves an act in futility early in the series run but gets better as he takes a firmer line with his players and adapts to their tendencies. While readers are quick to pick up on the Knight's tendency to be paranoid and hack and slash, they're slow to notice that B.A. often encourages it. In his campaign, sometimes the old man begging for coins really is a 10th level monk with an army of beggar mobs at his side. His most notorious NPCs are Red Gurdy Pickens, a rough and tumble antagonist who just won't die and whom B.A. likes to pull out on occasion to rattle the Knights, and Jonid Coincrawler, a trickster gnome with a track record of bilking the Knights out of their loot.

The seldom shown all female game group that meets separately from the male-dominated Muncie gaming community (though nearly all of them have other groups they play with regularly and for tournament purposes.) They're also a part of a larger organization of the same name that lobbies the HMPA to change some of the sexist rules (such as the Strength penalty) and [[Stripperiffic depictions of women]] The group is run by Patti Gauzweiler, with Sara Felton as one of the regular players and the following.

* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey:

!!Trish (The Escort: Not sure if this is her name.)

!!B.A.

The current Gamemaster and host. B.A. is a timid individual who still lives with his mother and works as an assistant manager at a local Pizza chain. Nearly all his spare time is spent crafting the "perfect" adventure, which proves an act in futility early in the series run but gets better as he takes a firmer line with his players and adapts to their tendencies. While readers are quick to pick up on the Knight's tendency to be paranoid and hack and slash, they're slow to notice that B.A. often encourages it. In his campaign, sometimes the old man begging for coins really is a 10th level monk with an army of beggar mobs at his side. His most notorious NPC's are Red Gurdy Pickens, a rough and tumble antagonist who just won't die and whom B.A. likes to pull out on occasion to rattle the Knights, and Jonid Coincrawler, a trickster gnome with a track record of bilking the Knights out of their loot.

* HonestRollsCharacter: A gnome named Mar Tarkvar, one of B.A.'s last and most fondly remembered (by him) player characters.

Described in his character bios as the first "dues paying" member of the Knights, Bob is a hardcore dedicated hack and slash gamer known for his quick temper and relentless drive. While his in game CatchPhrase is "I waste 'em with my crossbow," his out of game motto is "the game must go on." Throughout the series, Bob has told every lie, shirked every responsibility and pulled every trick he can think of to max out his time at the table estranging him more than once from his father and costing him a respectable job as a claims adjuster. He currently works at Weird Pete's game shop where he gets paid strictly in game product which he barters with for some basic necessities (read: more game product), but its his girlfriend Sheila Horowitz who holds down an actual job and pays their bills. He tends to prefer playing dwarven thieves wielding crossbows, his most well known being a family line all named Knuckles.

An unorthodox GM known for his edgy, experimental, and just plain weird gaming quirks. Nitro is a former drill sergeant and brings that mentality to the table. He's responsible for a foray into the steam tunnels that ended badly for Bob, and the deities in his campaign setting are deceased celebrities from real life (most notably Andy Warhol.) He and Bob still have a bit of bad blood over the oft referenced incident where Bob threw salt in his eyes and hit him with a dinner tray (the man touched his dice.)

Probably the youngest of the series regular characters. Newt still lives at home and is in college. He was introduced as a temporary replacement for Bob where he made his mark by killing the other player's characters in their sleep and looting their bodies to stock up for another campaign he really wanted to play in. Apparently, this type of behavior continued until the first Black Hands strip where he showed up desperate to finally be accepted into a group (the Black Hands being his last chance). Nitro decided to keep him because he liked how Newt rattled Stevil.

!!Waco Bill

The son and heir of Gary Jackson. Gary used to let Timmy create material for the game in an egregious example of nepotism (the kid was eight, and it showed in his work.)

* TearJerker: What turned out to be a clue to the audience. Bundle of Trouble 17, which reprinted the issue featuring Gary's death, also showed Gary holding his son Timmy's hand with him looking up at his dad smiling as they walk into the sunset. [[spoiler: It would later turn out that Gary is alive and that he had surreptitiously visited his son periodically during the period of his supposed death so this is probably one of those visits.]]

The Gamemaster. Patti is a school teacher who hosts game in her trailer and tends to take in lost souls or anyone who looks like they need some mothering. This, perhaps, explains why she was shown early somewhat relentlessly pursuing Dave to resume the relationship they once had. Patti is also the Gamemaster for the local but seldom shown Ladies of Hack group consisting of most of the regular female characters.

A long time member of the group. Though Chad fits in socially as a college student, he started gaming in middle school where his munchkin tendencies kept him away from other gaming tables leading Patti to take him in. Today, he's more the team spitfire, easily irritated but a bit more mature as a player.

Bob's girlfriend and a somewhat hardcore gamer herself. She started dating Bob in the first place partly out of admiration for Bob's commitment to game and partly because he needs mothering. Tends to play [[KnightInSourArmor Knight Errants]]

!!Trixie (The Escort: Not sure if this is her name.)

* KillerGM:Moreso than the others. And he's always eager to get behind the screen again when the trauma of the previous campaign has healed.

* BSF: His HackMaster +12, of course.

* TheChesmaster: Oh, so much.

Once the Kinghts stopped being simple gamer stereotypes and started being actual characters, the KODT writers began to introduce other gamer groups to be able to explore funny gamer situations that just wouldn't happen at the Knights table. The first was the Black Hands.

Another group to gain a lot of focus within the KODT strips to the point where each issue now usually features an ongoing strip with them and they've had their own miniseries. The group consists mostly of preestablished characters with everyone aside from Stevil getting at least a mention prior to the introduction of the Black Hands group. Their main distinctive feature is that they play together because nobody else will have them, so 5 difficult personalities get together each week and try to tolerate each other long enough to get through a game.

An unorthodox GM known for his edgy, experimental, and just plain weird gaming quirks. Nitro is a former drill sergeant and brings that mentality to the table. He's responsible for a foray into the steam tunnels that ended badly for Bob, and the deities in his campaign setting are deceased celebrities from real life (most notably Andy Warhol.) He and Bob still have a bit of bad blood over the oft referenced incident where Bob through salt in his eyes and hit him with a dinner tray (the man touched his dice.)

Former Gamemaster turned player, Brian is a painfully shy recluse away from the gaming table. He lives in a trailer partly on an inheritance from his uncle and partly on revenues from miniatures painting, PC repairs, eBay trading, and extreme frugality. At the table, he's a savant. He has near perfect memory of all rules and revisions to the game, and is a master of advanced gaming tactics. Brian is able to pull off brilliant maneuvers at the game table and is the single most likely player to turn B.A.'s adventures to his personal advantage (though the other Knights have gotten wise to it). Brian has shown signs at different times of being slightly unhinged, from having an imaginary girlfriend to doing his adventure prep with dolls. He usually plays Dwarven wizards from the Lotus clan, the most well known being nicknamed "Teflon Billy."

Also known as "Bitter Stevil." Stevil is a prickly individual that unleashes pent up office frustrations at the game table. He has to drive from a larger nearby city leading to his frequent complaint "I can't believe I drove 45 minutes for this." Newt has rubbed him the wrong way from day one, leading to an escalating vengeance war between them.
* CatchPhrase: I can't believe I drove 45 frickin minutes for this.

!!Gordo Sheckberry