Table Titans

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Table Titans
Author(s)Scott Kurtz
Current status/scheduleOngoing

Table Titans is a Dungeons & Dragons -based webcomic created by Scott Kurtz, [1] which debuted on January 28, 2013. [2] [3] It is a spin-off of Kurtz's other webcomic PvP , [1] and features characters who have previously appeared in PvP comics. [4] Table Titans is produced by Kurtz, Steve Hamaker, Brian Hurtt, and Tavis Maiden. [5]

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Creation and premise

In an interview, creator Scott Kurtz said that he hoped to "create a comic book that captured the spirit and joy of tabletop roleplaying", and that a reader survey showed that many PvP fans were into tabletop gaming. [1] Unlike PvP, Table Titans was designed to be a serialized ongoing comic book rather than a strip comic. [6]

Table Titans follows the 'Table Titans' role playing group and their rivals the 'Dungeon Dogs', [7] and moves between the real lives of the players and the world of the Dungeons & Dragons characters they play. [8] Table Titans has had four "seasons": seasons 1 and 2 followed the Table Titans playing games in the Forgotten Realms setting, while seasons 3 and 4 followed the Dungeon Dogs in a homebrew setting called Fallen Veil. [4] In April 2020, Kurtz announced a fifth season to be set during the characters' high school days. [9]

The Table Titans website also includes reader-submitted stories from their own roleplaying games. [10]

The comic has a collaboration with the creators of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), Wizards of the Coast, who has promoted the comic on its social media sites and allow Table Titans to produce official D&D products. [1]

Characters

Awards and reception

Table Titans was nominated for a Harvey Award in 2014, in the category of Best Online Comics Work. [20]

Matt O'Keefe of The Beat described Table Titans in 2015 as a "huge-and-still-growing webcomic series". [1] A Geek Dad review of Book One said that Table Titans is "a great mix of humor and inside jokes and knowing nods" and that it "has nailed so many (too many!) aspects of roleplaying gamers", adding "there are so many reasons why I’m such a fan of Table Titans, but I think it comes down to recognizing a little bit of myself and my fellow gamers in the pages....there’s a little dose of truth in every panel." [8] In a 2018 review, a writer for Tribality described it as " a favorite of mine... I enjoy how Kurtz reveals a story from the eyes of the characters and balances that with all of the table talk by the players." [4]

In an interview in 2015, Kurtz said that Table Titans had the same traffic as PvP on days when new strips were posted. [1] A 2016 review on Geek Dad said the comic had "a huge following". [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 O'Keefe, Matt (28 April 2015). "MATT CHATS: Webcomics Wizard Scott Kurtz on Commanding His "Table Titans"". The Beat.
  2. ↑ "Scott Kurtz: Table Titans". Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page. December 7, 2012. Archived from the original on July 26, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ Tyrell, Gary (28 January 2013). "Not That You Should Think That The Topic Of Today's Post Is Filler". Fleen. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  4. 1 2 3 "Table Titans". Tribality. 2018-04-24. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  5. ↑ "New Readers - Table Titans". tabletitans.com. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  6. ↑ "News Archive for December 2012". pvponline.com. 2012. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  7. ↑ Elsworth, Shawn (2018-04-23). "Table Titans". Tribality. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Kelly, James Floyd (2016-04-14). "'Table Titans Book One: First Encounters' Review". GeekDad. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  9. ↑ "Table Titans: School Days". pvponline.com. 3 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  10. ↑ "Tales from the Table - Table Titans". tabletitans.com. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  11. 1 2 Kurtz, Scott R. (2012). "Mines of Madness - Page 5". Table Titans. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  12. 1 2 3 4 Kurtz, Scott R. (2014). "First Encounters - Page 8". Table Titans. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  13. 1 2 Kurtz, Scott R. (2014). "Winter of The Iron Dwarf - Page 2". Table Titans. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  14. ↑ Kurtz, Scott R. (2014). "First Encounters - Page 10". Table Titans. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  15. ↑ Kurtz, Scott R. (2014). "First Encounters - Page 6". Table Titans. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  16. 1 2 Kurtz, Scott R. (2014). "First Encounters - Page 81". Table Titans. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  17. ↑ Kurtz, Scott R. (2014). "First Encounters - Page 7". Table Titans. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  18. ↑ "First Encounters Page 1 - Table Titans". tabletitans.com. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  19. ↑ "Winter of The Iron Dwarf - Page 3 - Table Titans". tabletitans.com. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  20. ↑ Tyrrell, Gary (18 August 2014). "Awards Season". Fleen. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
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