At the table with my comrades in dice, companions of old with whom I have gamed for years uncounted, it is chips and salsa. Homemade salsa is the ideal, crafted by myself more oft than not, and offered with pride to the group assembled. But if the demands of time and circumstance conspire to make such an endeavor impractical, then the canned salsa of choice, I tell you all, is Herdez. Its piquant flavor brings an edge to the proceedings, and its alarming sodium content races the heart in thrilling facsimile of perilous deeds.
In the old school days of our gaming fellowship (when we were literally at our old school), there was also available to us a favored salsa of the "Iris" house brand from Smart & Final stores, a rich and tasty concoction housed in the sturdiest of gallon-sized cans. That bold ambrosia paired exceeding well with a massive bag of chips from that selfsame merchant, which we dubbed "metal chips" for their satisfying heartiness. Alas, both the hefty can of salsa and behemoth bag of robust chips have not been seen in some decades.
A character, once made and committed to a sheet of paper in the traditional manner, has not proven its worthiness until its sheet has been properly christened with a splash or two of salsa. A chip well-laden with salsa, being hoisted to a hungry mouth, will at times release a droplet of the spicy topping whilst on its journey, providing to the character sheet over which it passes the evidence of experience, the stain of battle, the mark of deeds accomplished!
I offer to you, from my archives, a small gallery of character sheet excerpts that have been baptized in salsa. Behold them well!
