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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 3113515" data-attributes="member: 7533">[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.</blockquote>