OotS 358

[LoneWolf23]

Nale's gonna need a new Kobold...

 

[shilsen]

[Sblock]Actually, I did assume it was salsa. The tail coming out of the salsa was a bit distasteful. And using the head as a bowl was about as revolting as using the head as a hat in a prior strip. I find both rather revolting, personally. Just not my kind of humor.

I am normally a huge supporter of Rich, but this strip I just felt the need to speak a voice of reason. It isn't like I'll quite reading the strip. I'll just add it to the reasons I don't enjoy Belkar as a character.[/Sblock]

A little revolting is good for the soul. And a lot of revolting is better. IMNSHO, of course.

Personally, I thought it was damn funny!

 

[Klaus]

Bleah. I was really enjoying the strip this time. "Druids always pick the hard way. It encourages Natural Selection." Classic!

But the end scene is really revolting. Add the final 5 panels to why I really dislike what Belkar brings to the strip. Add the last one to why I personally feel Rich went too far with this one.

He's still got a great strip. But for me he crossed a line in this one I'd have rather he not crossed.

QFT.

If I want sick & twisted to the point of disgusting, I'd watch the news.

Didn't like this strip as soon as it was shown that the kobold had died. He was fun.

But I also found Marvel Zombies to be revolting, so what do I know?

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I don't understand the Belkar-hatin'. Gotta have the id to go with the superego. Don't really understand the claims of revulsion from people who play a game predicated on the whole-sale slaughter of thousands upon thousands of creatures.

 

[Joker]

I like Belkar. He reminds me of the stuff I pulled with my first character. When I was 15.

And now sometimes aswel, I guess.

 

[Pbartender]

[sblock]Only if you assume that the "chunky salsa" is actually part of Yok-Yok. I think it's exactly what Belkar says it is: Salsa. That's exactly the kind of thing he'd do to freak out Roy, and we know from past strips that he's got a halfling's palette, with all the need for good food that requires.[/sblock]

[sblock]I wouldn't be so certain... There are definitely little kobold-skin-colored yellow bits floating around in that salsa. Even if it is just salsa, it very well may have been seasoned with Yok-Yok.[/sblock]

Besides, as others have said, Belkar is a D&D stereotype common to many games... The player who purposefully and maliciously tests the limits of the DM's and other players' patience and sensibilities with a gruesomely and annoyingly evil and/or chaotic character. The sort of player who's probably bored with the game, and really shood be playing a video game like Grand Theft Auto, but won't because it doesn't net him any real attention from other people.

It's all about shock value. Not everybody goes for that sort of thing. Fortunately, Rich only trots Belkar out for special occasions.

What makes Belkar's antics amusing is the shared sympathy for the DM and other players... And the reminiscence for many of us of similar characters we played in the past... before we grew up.

I, for one, once played in a Dark Sun campaign many, many, many years ago in high school. I played an halfling shaman. Aside from his necklace of gruesome battle trophies, he carried around 150 feet of goblin-gut rope, and a mace fashioned from the thighbone of an orc.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I don't really like Belkar; it'd be nice if he were a villain. However, I don't want him to die; at least not until he kills Miko. That's the main reason I want him alive now.

 

[DaveMage]

Great strip - but....ewwwwwwwwwwwww.

 

[Nyeshet]

Well, I did wonder when Belkar would have another opportunity to use his "Craft Disturbing Image" feat . . . I just didn't expect something quite like this!

All in all, though, a good strip.

 

[Tiew]

Bah! Belkar is awesome! He's the funniest character in the strip.