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On 7 February 2006 a comprehensive protection package was announced for the
Great Bear Rainforest, which was defined to include the central and north
coasts of BC and  Haida Gwaii  (formerly
known as the Queen Charlotte Islands). The Great Bear Rainforest Agreement
included four key elements: rainforest protection, improved logging practices,
the involvement of First Nations in decision making, and conservation
financing to enable economic diversification. The final agreement banned
logging in 33% of the Great Bear Rainforest and made a commitment to implement
ecosystem-based forestry management for the entire Great Bear Rainforest by
2009.  [18]
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*  Nodwick  , another  roleplaying   comic strip 
*  Dork Tower  , another  roleplaying   comic strip 
*  The Order of the Stick  , another  roleplaying   comic strip 
*  Eric and the Dread Gazebo  , a notorious gaming anecdote that provided the basis for one story in the comic's first issue.
_ Shadis  _ editor  Jolly Blackburn
 decided to draw a simple  comic
strip  of his own to put on the last page of
_Shadis_ #2 (March/April 1990) which he called _Knights of the Dinner Table_ ,
focusing on the comedic interactions of a role-playing game group. Blackburn
published that initial _Knights_ strip with the intention of just filling an
otherwise blank page, but when he instead published more professional comic
strips starting with _Shadis_ #6, fans began an outcry that led to Blackburn
bringing _Knights_ back.  [5]  : 262  Blackburn also published _Knights of the
Dinner Table_ as a comic book, with its first three issues published by his
company  Alderac Entertainment Group  over the next year (1994-1995).  [5]  : 263
Blackburn had other interests that were not shared by his partners, so he left
Alderac in 1995 and took the rights to _Knights of the Dinner Table_ with him,
and _Shadis_ #21 (December 1995) was his final issue.  [5]  : 263  Blackburn
formed his own company called KODT Enteractive Facktory, though which he
intended to publish the monthly _Knights of the Dinner Table_ comic book, and
he was planning to continue the comic strip in _Shadis_ .  [5]  : 309  While
setting up his new company, Blackburn got a call from the editor of _ Dragon
 "Dragon \(magazine\)") _ to publish the _Knights
of the Dinner Table_ comic strip, which then first appeared in _Dragon_ #226
(February, 1996).  [5]  : 309  The run that lasted through issue #269 (March
2000), when it was replaced by and expanded _ Nodwick  _ strip.  [ _ citation needed   _ ]
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####  Boris Alphonzo "B.A." Felton
Author(s)  |   Jolly Blackburn 
Website  |  www.kenzerco.com
Current status/schedule  |  Active
Launch date  |  March/April 1990
Genre(s)  |  Humor, role-playing, fantasy
Followed by  |  _ Knights of the Dinner Table Illustrated
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* **Newt Forager** – a small and rather whiny and tricky player who invariably plays evil, mysterious loners with hidden agendas, all of whom are blood related so that he can share in-game information between them. The only child of a career military family, Newt bounced from base to base while he was young—perhaps the reason he has a hard time making friends. He has gravitated to the Black Hands because no other group will let him in (he played once with B.A. and the Knights when Bob was unable to game, and proceeded to try and rob everybody just to load up on treasure and experience for another GM's game he was aiming for). Since joining the Black Hands he has acquired an ongoing hatred of Stevil, mostly due to in-game interpersonal warfare and vendettas. Newt's first appearances with the Black Hands were initially believed to be examples of "newbie-bashing" (mistreatment of players who are new to a game or group, and are thus at a disadvantage) by several KODT readers; however, the creators behind the Knights point out that Newt's anti-social and selfish tendencies both in and out of character put him on an even footing with the Black Hands from the start, and that sooner or later, Newt invariably gives as good as he gets where his fellow players are concerned.
* **Gordo Sheckberry** – a more roleplay focused player who usually plays female characters, most notably female  pixie fairies  who are dramatically underpowered compared to the other characters in the campaign. Gordo uses a wheelchair and has full lifetime disability, but considers this a bonus as it enables him to game almost daily with different groups. He is easily recognized by his Coke-bottle glasses and bad toupee. Gordo has a degree in Chemical Engineering, and is rumored to have cooked up the batch of C-4 used in an attempt to breach the steam tunnels (the incident that gave Nitro his nickname).
* **Stevil Van Hostle** – also known as Stevil Van Hostile, Evil Stevil or Bitter Stevil, Stevil is a tech-support worker who commutes from  Indianapolis  to game sessions and is quick and vicious to jump on any grudge in the game (sometimes accompanied by his signature gripe, "I can't believe I drove forty-five frickin' miles for THIS!"). On occasions, he has been known to deliberately trash entire parties and campaigns simply because another player's character won over on him. He has an ongoing grudge against Newt which started when Newt first joined the group; Stevil's character challenged Newt's to "swing at him with a stick" to test his combat prowess (after Newt refused to describe his character in game-statistic terms). Newt's character knocked out Stevil's with his first blow and it was discovered that Stevil had assumed that a "stick" would be a small twig or similar, whereas the "stick" Newt's character had actually used was a full-length pole resembling a log. Outside the Black Hands' table, Newt merely brags he knocked Stevil out with an ordinary stick, which only serves to further annoy Stevil.
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The Great Bear Rainforest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unspoiled
temperate rainforest left in the world.  [14]  The area is home to species
such as  cougars  ,  wolves  ,  salmon  ,  grizzly bears
 , and the  Kermode ("spirit") bear
 , a unique subspecies of the  black bear
 , in which one in ten cubs
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\(genetics\)") white coloured coat.
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* **Victor "Nitro" Fergueson** – Former Marine and the current  GM  of the Black Hands; he resorts to increasingly contrived methods to keep the group in order, including using demerits, using incentives, and forcing players to wear "hubcaps of shame" if warranted. Supposedly earned his name after an incident taking part in the steam tunnels under the local University where Nitro attempted to run a "live action" session. For some reason yet to be fathomed, Nitro has a habit of using deceased celebrities of cult-like status as NPCs in most, if not all, of his games (Andy Warhol, his apparent favorite, springs up everywhere—in HackMaster, Nitro placed him as the primary deity of his campaign setting, **Kraag Wurld** ). Has little tolerance for stupidity and sucking up (usually done at the same time by Newt), and can quickly slip into a drill sergeant-esque tirade that would make  R. Lee Ermey  proud. Nitro was supposedly based on a real person who Jolly met at a gaming club, who really was nicknamed Nitro.
* **Pete Ashton** – known to the gaming community as "Weird Pete"; owner of the local game shop, the "Games Pit" (originally called the "Games Pit Stop"). A player in the Black Hands, although he has occasionally acted as GM for both them and other groups in the comic, usually running his trademark "never-completed" adventure _The Temple Of Horrendous Doom_ (a reference of a pair of real D&D modules, _ Tomb Of Horrors  _ and _ The Temple of Elemental Evil  _ ) which "no-one has ever completed without dying". In fact, the majority of the adventure requires players to take control of disembodied spirits; thus "dying" and being reborn is part and parcel of completing the adventure. Weird Pete generally forces players to sign a non-disclosure contract before playing as he enjoys the mystique that has evolved around the adventure. Weird Pete also devised a "demerit" system for penalizing players when he is GMing, which can be worked off with time running the front counter of the "Games Pit".
Brian is the  rules lawyer  and 
powergamer  of the group. A web designer and
 miniature  "Miniature figure \(gaming\)")
painter, he lives alone in a house inherited from his parents. He can quote
rules and supplements down to page and paragraph/footnote numbers, and bend
and abuse this knowledge to his advantage, at times at the expense of other
players. He meticulously hands down notes of earlier adventures to his
characters' descendants, thereby giving them in-game access to knowledge they
otherwise would not possess, and has been known to tattoo his character's
spells on fellow party-members backs as a contingency plan, making them into
walking  grimoires  . Brian is another person
said to keep a grudge so long he has a regular account at the taxidermists'
shop. In addition, when he does get pushed too far (either by a carefully
constructed plot falling apart or a bout of in-game backstabbing), he has been
known to flip the table in a moment of rage.
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KoDT has won the  Origins Awards  for
_Best Professional Game Magazine_ of 1998  [ _ citation needed
 _ ]  and 1999.
[ _ citation needed   _ ]  It also won the Origins Award _Gamer's Choice: Best Periodical
of 2003_ .  [3]  KoDT has also won the  Origins Award  for _Best Game Accessory_ of 2009.  [4]
More recently (late 2006) in B.A.'s newest campaign, Dave has changed tactics
(in part thanks to B.A.'s new hardball rules) and is playing a magic-user
named **El Mardico** with, it must be said, some margin of success. Brian has
therefore provided Dave with tutelage on how to properly run a mage – for a
small fee. Dave was once involved with local  Game Master  **Patty Gauzweiller** ; he later broke it off but she still had
feelings for him, leaving him a target for her flirtatious tactics. This,
however, seems to have disappeared with time.
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The Knights themselves have encountered several recurring  non-player
characters  in their
(various) roleplaying campaigns. Among these are:
The Great Bear Rainforest was officially recognized by the  Government of
British Columbia  in February 2016, when it announced an agreement to permanently
protect 85% of the old-growth forested area from industrial  logging
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Queen's Commonwealth Canopy  in September of the same year.
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as a  noun  with the meaning "homosexual man" since the
1970s, most commonly in the plural for an unspecified group, as in "gays are
opposed to that policy." This usage is somewhat common in the names of
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##  Key Background
Starting in the mid-1980s in the United States, a conscious effort was
underway within what was then commonly called the _gay community_ , to add the
term _lesbian_ to the name of organizations that involved both male and female
homosexuals, and to use the terminology of _gay and lesbian_ , _lesbian/gay_ ,
or a similar phrase when referring to that community. Accordingly,
organizations such as the National Gay Task Force became the  National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force  . For many feminist lesbians, it was also
important that _lesbian_ be named first, to avoid the implication that women
were secondary to men, or an afterthought.  [37]  In the 1990s, this was
followed by a similar effort to include terminology specifically including
bisexual,  transgender  ,  intersex
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of the same movement. Consequently, the portmanteau _les/bi/gay_ has sometimes
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Well into the mid 20th century a middle-aged bachelor could be described as
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implication of homosexuality. This usage could apply to women too. The British
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first published in the 1930s, described the adventures of _Jane Gay_ . Far
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research from Australia  that revealed
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analysis of 34 studies from countries where same-sex relationships are legal,
including the US, UK and parts of Europe. These studies compared the
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In mid-20th century Britain, where male homosexuality was illegal until the 
Sexual Offences Act 1967  , to openly identify someone as homosexual was considered very
offensive and an accusation of serious criminal activity. Additionally, none
of the words describing any aspect of homosexuality were considered suitable
for polite society. Consequently, a number of  euphemisms  were used to hint at suspected homosexuality. Examples include
"sporty" girls and "artistic" boys,  [26]  all with the stress deliberately on
the otherwise completely innocent adjective.
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If a person engages in sexual activity with a partner of the same sex but does
not self-identify as gay, terms such as '  closeted'  , 'discreet', or '  bi-curious  '
may apply. Conversely, a person may identify as gay without having had sex
with a same-sex partner. Possible choices include identifying as gay socially,
while choosing to be  celibate  , or while
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also identify as "gay" but others may consider _gay_ and _bisexual_ to be 
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(especially women) who weren't gay...."  [27]  Later examples of the original
meaning of the word being used in popular culture include the theme song to
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old time." Similarly, the 1966  Herman's Hermits  song "  No Milk Today  ", which became a Top 10 hit in the UK and a  Top 40  hit in the U.S., included the lyric "No milk today, it was not
always so; _The company was gay_ , we'd turn night into day."  [28]
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