History Characters / Knightsofthedinnertable

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An ex-con gone straight. Crutch met the Black Hands when they decided to game at Hawg Wallers. Crutch and others around thought the Hands were planning a bank heist (in fact, they were playing a Western RPG and were plotting to rob a bank in-game). After spending a few nights in jail with the Black Hands over this misunderstanding, Crutch fell in love with gaming and began seeking gaming groups. Unfortunately, his enthusiasm for Hack and Slash extended to killing other player's characters at the table so he couldn't find a group until BA directed him to Patty, who has made him her latest project. He has recently become a surprise hit GMing "Crime Nation," bringing realistic grittiness into his game thanks to his personal experience in crime.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys
* HeroicComedicSociopath

* TooCleverByHalf: Usually when Brian's plans fail, it's because of this. He tries to squeeze every advantage out of a situation and will eventually forget an obscure rule or variable (or leave his friends out.)

* DeadpanSnarker
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Played straight most of the time: [[spoiler: subverted when she wound up dating Bob, of all people.]]

* TheDitz: While he has his moments, as mentioned above, nobody can deny that Dave ain't too bright. Occasionally he dips into a {{Cloudcuckooølander}} set of mind, but mostly he's just clueless.

* {{Adorkable}}: It doesn’t show as much when he’s behind the screen, but it’s never more apparent than on his quasi-dates with Patty.

* DrunkWithPower: Any kind of power seems to go to Weird Pete's head. He becomes a petty tyrant when running a campaign (or even just sitting in as a temporary GM on someone else's) - handing out merits at the drop of a hat for infringing rules he has just made up - and he runs the Gamers Court as a HangingJudge.

* DrunkWithPower: Any kind of power seems to go to Weird Pete's head. He becomes a petty tyrant when running a campaign (or even just sitting in as a temporary GM on someone else's) - handing outmerits at the drop of a hat for infringing rules he has just made up - and he runs the Gamers Court as a HangingJudge.

The analog for Gary Gygax (with the surname of Steve Jackson). Showed to be a gambler with a fly by the seat of his pants approach to running his company and publishing new game products. After his apparent death in a plane crash, he became a sort of larger than life legend, made still larger recently when it was revealed he's not dead. Currently he's using another company to buy out products being held and (he feels) ruined by his wife who has been running the company in trust for his son.

!! Johnny Kizinsky

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 [[AndYouThoughtItWasAGame letting Bob believe it was for a roleplaying game]].

* CrippingOverspecialization: Brian knows how to play wizards. Brian ''really'' knows how to play wizards. When the group started a campaign where everyone had to go outside their comfort zone and he wound up playing a fighter, he loaded the character up with proficiency with siege weapons like catapults and ballistas (which the party had no access to) in an attempt to emulate the normal long-ranged devastation he normally could inflict as a wizard, but neglected to take even rudimentary skill with any melee weapons.

* JudicalWig: Pete wears whenever he is presiding as judge at Gamer Court. It is not known if judges in other Gamer Courts also do this, or if this is just another example of Pete's fondness for theatrics and formal trappings.

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This is the character page for ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable.''

* {{Expy}}: Hard 8 itself is an expy of [=TSR=], but the games they produce are also typically expies of real life products Hackmaster (TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons), World of Hackcraft (take a wild guess), and Spelljacked (The similarly ill-fated Spellfire CCG) being some of the most common.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: [=JoJo=] is the only Hard8 character who shows up regularly in Muncie to interact with the regular cast. This is because one of his many duties is putting an end to crises... and the [[MainCharacter gamers in Muncie]] tend to create crises. They're his biggest headache.

Former Gamemaster turned player, Brian is a painfully shy recluse away from the gaming table. He lives 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."

!!Stevil Van Hostle
Also known as "Bitter Stevil." Stevil is a prickly individual who unleashes pent up office frustrations at the game table. He has to commute from Indianapolis to gaming nights, leading to his frequent complaint "I can't believe I drove forty frickin' miles for THIS!" Newt has rubbed him the wrong way from day one, leading to an escalating vengeance war between them.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: At one point when JoJo was unavailable, Skip was sent to deal with the [[RunningGag latest "problem in Muncie".]]

* TheScrooge: One could say he {{Min Max}}es his finances.