Yeager is portrayed as a proficient warrior who is nevertheless overly eager and impetuous, lacking in brainpower, and all too willing to use Nodwick as monster-bait ; in one notable episode, his companions realized that Yeagar had been replaced with a doppleganger when he opted to throw a rock at a switch across a lava bed instead of throwing Nodwick at it.

A " reinvented " version of Nodwick and his adventuring group have also appeared in a City of Heroes based comic strip as the superhero team " Q-4orce.

In Dragon # 270 ( April 2000 ), KoDT left Dragon and was replaced in the magazine with an expanded Nodwick strip.

In Dragon # 270 ( April 2000 ), Nodwick was expanded to a two-page spread and replaced Knights of the Dinner Table as a full-page comic that served as a parody of D & D adventuring.

Nodwick is published in Dragon Magazine and on Nodwick. com, along with a " sibling " comic, Full Frontal Nerdity.

Nodwick and the adventurers he works with were given statistics for 2nd edition Dungeons & Dragons rules as part of the Giants in the Earth article in Dragon # 270.

( The trade paperbacks include a " Rest Index Peace " at the end of each volume, listing all the ways Nodwick has died up to that volume, this Index doesn't include Nodwick's deaths from Dragon and Dungeon Magazines, nor from the online comic ).. In Dragon # 270's Giants in the Earth article, Nodwick is stated as being a level 21 Henchman, with eighteen ranks in each of the Nonweapon Proficiences Schlepping, Toting, Hauling, and Lifting with Knees.

When at home, Artax frequently uses Nodwick as a laboratory assistant ( or guinea pig ). In Dragon # 270's Giants in the Earth article, Artax is stated as having come from a long line of magicians.

* Nodwick # 30 ( Henchman, 2005 )

* The Brotherhood of Evil Henchmen: A cabal of unsavory hirelings who desire to recruit Nodwick so they can learn from his " skills in the art of object transportation " ( i. e., schlepping vast quantities of loot ), in addition to their own talent of finding even the most strange, rare and unusual things for the use of their masters.

* Utharr: Evil fighter and worshipper of Baphuma ' al, he was lured to his death by Nodwick ( who slapped a steak on his back and suggested that he examine a well that contained a tentacled, Lovecraftian monster ), later revived by Elonan, and killed again in an avalanche.

Nodwick has died numerous times, but each time Piffany manages to revive him with her duct tape of healing, usually wrapping him from head to toe to put him back together ( On one occasion, Nodwick was reduced to a pile of ashes, so the group poured his ashes into a " Hench Mold " with the words " Just add water " written on it ; about the only time she hasn't used the duct tape ); so Yeagar and Artax usually don't worry about tossing him into gruesome traps, feeding him to dragons, etc., if it will advance their quests.

His Nonweapon Proficiences are what allows Nodwick to carry such ridiculously large amounts of junk, and only apply to things designated " loot ".

Although she possesses a great deal of wisdom and is the purest soul in the universe, Piffany isn't quite the brightest bulb in the box and is commonly manipulated by her companions. Piffany is the only member of the party who treats Nodwick with any kind of dignity, but Artax and Yeagar often take advantage of her natural gullibility to use Nodwick to trigger traps " for the greater good.

* Nodwick, another roleplaying comic strip

Nodwick is a comic strip created by Aaron Williams, based around the conventions of fantasy role-playing games, in particular Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ).

As most of the other henchmen in the strip look very similar to Nodwick, this seems to be a relatively common phenomenon. Artax and Yeagar frequently use Nodwick to set off traps, or to distract or bait monsters.

; Weapons of Mass Destruction ( 2004 ): More cards for the game including new cards usable as either a missile or a warhead and a Deluxe Population deck featuring characters from Nodwick, Kenzer & Company and Dork Tower.

As the artist's style evolved, Nodwick grew shorter and his nose grew larger ; this was actually commented upon in the comics themselves, with Artax trying to understand how it happened and Nodwick suggesting his nose grew to create balance for the oft-ridiculous weights he is forced to carry ( generally orders of magnitude greater than his own weight ).

* Bezzler: An elf or half-elf thief who worked with the group before they hired Nodwick ; they disposed of him when it came out that he was stealing from them.

" When she isn't patching Nodwick together or scolding Yeagar and Artax for their general naughtiness, Piffany spends her time proselytizing in the name of niceness and baking the universe's best cookies-the recipe of which was used to settle a dispute among the gods once.

When Nodwick was hurled into a parallel universe by the Cleft of the Cosmos, it was to a world dominated by Baphuma ' al.

In this article, Nodwick is stated as being of Lawful Good alignment, which is why he attempts to merely find a loophole in his contract in order to escape rather than simply absconding while unattended or even murdering his employers in their sleep.

She writes epic ballads about the group's heroic exploits, such as feeding Nodwick to hydras, sundering ancient seals with his head, and so on, which tend to make the four even bigger laughingstocks than they were before.

The adventure has also been referenced in the Nodwick comic series.

A Nodwick card game is also available.

The titular character, Nodwick, is a henchman ( as opposed to a hireling ) in the employ of a typical Dungeons & Dragons-style adventuring party.

: A short henchman, Nodwick has served the adventurers for many years.

Nodwick isn't as knowledgeable as Artax or as wise as Piffany, but he possesses the most common sense in the group, and is the most likely to protest their hare-brained schemes .. Over the course of his travails, Nodwick has developed a dry sense of humor and a jaded wit, and lost whatever fear of death he ever held.

According to the 2nd edition character sheet for Nodwick, if he ever encounters a deity, there is a 20 % chance that the deity in question recognizes him from his all-too frequent trips to the hereafter.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

At first I thought he had missed.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

For his first five years in prison, they had shared a cell.

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

He had received both first and second anonymous notices, and each time he had accused his neighbors of writing them.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

At the first shot Russ had hurled his mount to the left toward the side of the winding draw.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

He had presented the first German performances of Puccini's Manon Lescaut and De Falla's La Vida Breve.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.