Webcomics!

This might be a more readable format for Tales from the Tables for some folk.

Staying on webtoons for a moment, there is of course a metric ton of great comics there. The majority are Korean webtoons but there are plenty of other gems, such as The Weekly Roll (a funny D&D comic with a black and white WFRP feel, the author has done a couple of similar ones).

If you’re going to stick around for the Korean fantasy webtoons I’d recommend the following:
  • The Extra’s Academy Survival Guide: Ed Rothstaylor is sort of like Draco Malfoy if Hogwarts was a computer game and Malfoy was a tutorial boss whom Harry flattened in a duel in the first chapter. Shortly after this event, someone who’s actually played the game is reborn as Ed and realises he has to survive (Ed has been cut off from his wealthy evil family and is only at the school on sufferance) while not derailing the plot (harder than it looks).
  • Return of the Blossoming Blade: Cheongmyeong was the finest swordsman of the Mount Hua sect in the murim (world of martial arts), and the one who defeated the Heavenly Demon when he led his Cult against all China. A century later, Cheongmyeong is reincarnated as a young novice at Mount Hua and is enraged to find that the Mount Hua sect is now considered second-rate and inferior to its old rivals, some of whom have stolen their techniques. Cheongmyeong sets out on a long journey to restore the status and influence of Mount Hua.
  • Jungle Juice: A cool little superhero series where all superpowers come from insects and the use of a mysterious bug spray. Adrian Tchaikovsky must love it.
The other webcomic I’d really recommend is Guilded Age, a completed full colour fantasy webcomic from the same team as Faans (if anyone remembers that). It’s very MMORPG and gets a bit meta and melodramatic at times, but it’s worth a read.
 
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I was a fan of the original Fuzzy Knights of the Round Table- an homage/spoof of Knights of the Dinner Table. It launched in 1990, and it was collected in a series of trade paperbacks in 2002 or so. KoDT holds a warped mirror up to the RPG hobby, with tales of munchkins, power gamers, and misunderstandings (Ex. #1: The Gazebo). It has also had a surprising impact in its own right by launching Hackmaster as a fictional game which became reality. (Kenzerco has also produced other fine products for the hobby.)

But I just recently found out FKotRT has a new life as a webtoon, launched in 2022 or so:
 

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