Table Titans
Table Titans is a "Dungeons & Dragons"-based webcomic created by Scott Kurtz, which debuted on January 28, 2013. It is a spin-off of Kurtz's other webcomic "PvP", and features characters who have previously appeared in "PvP" comics. "Table Titans" is produced by Kurtz, Steve Hamaker, Brian Hurtt, and Tavis Maiden. 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. Unlike "PvP", "Table Titans" was designed  to be a serialized ongoing comic book rather than a strip comic. "Table Titans" follows the 'Table Titans' role playing group and their rivals the 'Dungeon Dogs', and moves between the real lives of the players and the world of the "Dungeons & Dragons" characters they play. "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. In April 2020, Kurtz announced a fifth season to be set during the characters' high school days . The "Table Titans" website also includes reader-submitted stories from their own roleplaying games. 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. Awards and reception. "Table Titans" was nominated for a Harvey Award in 2014, in the category of Best Online Comics Work. Matt O'Keefe of The Beat described "Table Titans" in 2015 as a "huge-and-still-growing webcomic series". 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." 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." In an interview in 2015, Kurtz said that "Table Titans" had the same traffic as "PvP" on days when new strips were posted. A 2016 review on Geek Dad said the comic had "a huge following".