What's your groups policy on booze while gaming? Little bit for fun, drunkeness as the standard, teetotalers only?
>>46063526
I find GMing a lot easier when tipsy (I improv a lot so having a confidence boost to just run with my spur-of-the-moment ideas and to throw myself unashamedly into NPCs is nice) and usually drink a bit when playing (RPGs or berdgerms) since gaming is about all the socialisation I can fit into a week and I like drinking with my friends.
Most of the other players drink too, some don't ever, neither kind have a problem with the other. But this is Australia, our drinking culture is strong.
I tend not to drink while gaming, although I've had some amazing times getting pissed and playing beer and pretzels stuff or party games.
Also, whenever I run Maid RPG I make sure I am consistently drunk. It's the only way.
I play most of my games in a pub and we always get a couple pints and a meal before and during the game.
No one is retarded enough to get wasted and it's honestly a great setting.
I don't GM when I'm intoxicated mostly.
>>46063526
I don't drink, I'll usually huff some solvents beforehand and during (I don't do it at the table obviously. I take toilet or "cigarette" breaks)
>>46063734
Never known a huffer. Whats your usual poison?
>>46063645
I feel this. Haven't partaken during a game but I feel it would help.
>>46063645
I swear to this. I go through a minimum of about one Gin Rickey per hour of play.
No joke; I usually arrive at game night with a plastic bag full of limes and a bottle of club soda.
>>46063526
We tend to have casual drinks (except for one guy who took the pledge). We find a beer/cocktail an hour helps to take the edge off.
>>46063526
Well, I don't have alcohol in my house, but am not against it as a rule or anything. Just a...really, really bad family history of drinking I'd like to stay out of.
I do ask anyone planning to drink to limit themselves to what they can handle - and we all know what you can handle, Kevin, don't even try that shit with us - and to drink responsibly if at all. Also, only absolute rule on the matter I can think of at the moment is 'sober up or have a DD', because fuck you, I'm not burying a fourth one of you fuckers for fucking ARI.
Oh, and no drugs at the game, including weed. Interesting enough, not my rule, despite being, um, because of me? Weird-ass physiology that responds unpredictably to the most innocuous things, combined with a pharmacy of pills I already have to take, means I'm hesitant to pop a Tylenol let alone something more recreational, so a couple of the others decided it wasn't fair to leave me out of the fun; that, and the time a certain someone picked up a bottle of one of my prescriptions thinking it was something, ahem, else, and had to be rushed to hospital, made the rest all cement it as a formal rule.
My players love when im drunk but im forbidden to drink vodka. because games turns into /pol/ cesspool with "jews". "leftists" etc.
>>46063526
It's okay until it becomes a distraction, at which point the game will come to a close.
I don't drink myself, although I often would buy the groups beer of choice, and I don't care if others choose to partake or not, but players shouldn't make the game revolve around them being drunk.
>>46066574
Vodka makes you /pol/ but other alcohol doesn't?
>>46063526
One of our group finally turned of drinking age, so we've picked it up the last few sessions.
Sadly it's just been a handful of beers a session, not even enough for a buzz for me, and I'm both the smallest and least experienced drinker. I'd like to try getting proper drunk, but it seems I'm the only one who thinks so. The rest all drink it for the taste, the barbarians.
>>46066628
Yeah sometimes certain alcohols trigger certain things that others don't. I myself am terribly allergic to certain kinds of alcohol when others have far less effect.
>>46063526
Game night for me and my friends doubles as a cocktail party, hors d'oeuvres included. Nobody ever gets properly sloshed, so it's a good time all around.
Considering it's at an FLGS, no drinking at the table itself, but it's downtown-ish and there's a few bars (and a microbrewery) around the corner, so getting buzzed beforehand isn't much of an issue.
Generally speaking, I find that a buzz/tipsy state is optimal, but being drunker than that just makes people stupid and unimaginative (though they may think they're terribly clever.)
The last few times we played those of us in the group that drink had a few beers, it was a god time all around as long as nobody gets shitfaced. Which is odd, as our DM (Who is pretty straight laced) usually gets obnoxiously holier than thou about booze/drugs around him.
I've played a few games high, I find it enjoyable but most of the others report that I get kinda spacey/dristracted.
On the other hand when I do DM I like to DM high. Something about it makes it easier to do improve and takes away that nervous edge I get when I try to do some minor acting and such. Some of my favorite games I DM'ed were when I was high.
Game night is actually the only time I am sober, mostly because we only play for two hours and I have to drive home.
>>46063734
Do you seriously fucking take breaks from the game just to huff WD-40 in your bathroom?
Never really had a bad experience with alcohol at the table, all the way from buzzed to fucking plastered.
But I play with muh bros.
>>46067422
>WD-40
>Solvent
Well yeah technically, but it's more of a light penetrating oil, and not a very good one at that.
>>46063645
Pretty much this. The drinking is sociable and it helps everyone who partakes loosen up a bit. It tends to be mostly a couple beers through the night and maybe some whiskey depending on who in the group is hosting game night.
I know I couldn't GM with the confidence I usually do without at least a beer.
As most have said already, some modicrum of tipsiness enhances my experience.
We always make a beer &snacks run before the session, a even get some wine on occasion.
It helps the less talkative of us loosen up and makes everyone a bit more immersed in it all.
>>46067507
It's not about what he's huffing. It's the fact he's doing it while he has people over. That's really weird.
I just can't imagine going to someone's house to play D&D just to have him leave every hour to huff goddamn paint thinner.
>>46067486
Same.
This one time we all got REALLY smashed while playing ASoIaF RPG.
Two PCs got into an argument about the morality of executing some prisoners we'd caught, and they were so immersed in it they were yelling at the top of their lungs and it almost escalates into a full on brawl.
It was dope.
To each their own. DM loves his alchy. Though I've figured that there's a fuckheug correlation between sobriety and involvement in RP. And since I suffer from main character syndrome once in a while, I tend to drink less than the others.
Depends on the setting really. We once had a space opera style game going wich was... Enhanced by some pints. But a really serious settings like military or WoD/CoC should be played sober
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I mostly GM, I'm also into making craft cocktails, especially classic pre-1950's cocktails.
I like to serve a few drinks during play, usually themed to the game we're playing. A fantasy game will usually be beer, wine, or mead. For my sci-fi games I stick with clear liquor and brightly colored liqueurs. For a modern campaign I'll stick with the classics like an old fashioned, manhattan, or gin martini.
The pride of my collection is my Wild Turkey Master's Keep. I probably have about 15 different bourbons at the moment.
>>46069097
Gin & Tonic for jungle adventures?
>>46063526
For one offs there's only one concrete rule from session to session;
You drink in game, you drink in real life.
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>>46069297
A gin and tonic might be served is the game is taking place in a colonial city, but in the jungle I'll probably go for a tiki drink or something with fruit.
I try to entice my players with longer sessions by cooking if they manage a 6 hour session.
My most recent food/cocktail pairing was tied into the game because I had half-jokingly mentioned that the space station was so crowded their food court was all hybrid cuisine, one of the establishments being "Asian-American Soulfood Fusion". The players had since used this establishment as their primary meeting point. I used some shrub I had made (a fruit infused sugar/vinegar syrup, used as a form of preserve prior to refrigeration, this shrub had infused with honeycrisp apples for three weeks), I combined the shrub with tamari (a relative of soy sauce, less salty and more savory), and Booker's bourbon to make a bourbon shrub teriyaki sauce. I proceeded to cook some finely chopped pork in the sauce with onion and mushrooms. I served it with a shrub cocktail consisting of the same bourbon used to make the sauce (2 parts bourbon, 1 part shrub, built in the glass with ice and stirred well). As a side I made some skillet cornbread drizzled with sorghum-sriracha sauce.
Usually few beers one to three per person depending on personal capabilities.
No one is stupid enough to actually get drunk beyond mild, social intoxication
Nothing other than beers though - this is a cultural thing rather than rule. Beer is just considered a "standard" drink for such casual meetings, wine is considered fancy drink for smug faggots (high-grade) or a bum food (low-grade), and you don't drink hard liquor casually here - you drink it in massive amounts when you purposefully trying to get wasted as fuck.
And those beers help, they loosen the constraints and free the creativity. Because of that I am considering to start drinking before the game instead during it, to fight the slow start issue. Or just taking benzos.
No drugs though, even marijuana, even though half of the group are heavy stoners, and I personally was a ritalin-analogue junkie at some point. Also had experiences with many other substances. But we just know that it isn't good mix, drugs are cool in certains situations but game is certainly not on the list.
We usually have a beer or 2 to ease into the game.
Our games are usually weeknights at about 6 or 7 so it helps people unwind after work.
Never had anyone get drunk during it though.
>>46063526
Depends. Like if I'm going hard RP/powerplaying a Ranger to be a bad motherfucker, then I might have a beer or something
But if I'm not trying to become a living god and I'm just there to have fun as a bard or whatever, I'm going to have my rum, my NOS, a few blunt s, some tacos or something
