Drinking Problem

Fauchard1520 · Sep 25, 2018

What's your policy for alcohol at the table? Has an excess of booze ever become a problem for your group?

(comic for illustrative purposes)

Sadras · Sep 25, 2018

I must have the only fellow gamers in existence who do not drink or smoke. B-)

So no policy needed.

Morrus · Sep 25, 2018

Not really an issue for us. Most of us have to drive to game anyway, but if not it's not really been a problem.

That said, I do find smokers walking out for ciggies every half hour quite frustrating.

Eltab · Sep 25, 2018

I DM'ed at an FLGS, so we followed their policy.
The vape gear had just been invented, so I let that go on as long as it did not smell obnoxious and nobody else complained, pending store setting policy. (The smoker got a kick out of the fact that he could find an 'air freshener' scent and receive complements for it.)
No alcohol allowed, store rule.

I've never gamed with player / players who were more interested in intoxicants than in the game. Hopefully I am not weird that way.

Ralif Redhammer · Sep 25, 2018

Hahahah, "terpinate!"

At my home game, there is generally alcohol, though no one goes crazy with it. As a DM, I’ll imbibe, but well within my limits. 1-2 drinks during a four-hour session.

The last time I got snookered while DMing was back in 4e, which was most definitely the wrong system to be attempting to wrangle while inebriated. I had an enemy they had thoroughly killed show up again at the big end battle. Whoops. That was the last time that happened.

At the open table, only a handful of people drink. I do not (it’s on a weeknight, for starters).

The Crimson Binome · Sep 25, 2018

I don't play with the sorts of people who would want to drink while doing so.

Also, I play at a local coffee shop, so bringing in alcohol would be infeasible anyway.

Gradine · Sep 25, 2018

I drank once as a DM. It... did not go well.

I don't drink anymore and neither do most of my players so it's not really an issue. Sometimes one of my players cracks open a beer but that's about it.

Most of my players drink that La Croix nonsense. On purpose!

iserith · Sep 25, 2018

I'm pro-alcohol in my games and drink when I'm a player and DM. A Jameson or six does wonders for one's D&D skills.

At least that's how I remember it.

Flexor the Mighty! · Sep 25, 2018

We do drinks and have the odd smoke while playing. I'm not going to lie and say there have never been times when a player got too lit. When I'm Dm'ing I only do shots when I get a PC kill. So I'm drinking a half of a fifth per session lately.

Blue · Sep 25, 2018

Varies if there's any alcohol at a game. One game one player brings a 6-pack of hard cider or whatever and we share. Others, not so much.

Only one case in the past few years has drinking been a problem, and it was in a different game that rarely had alcohol. We had a player who could be a real jerk, but kept it to the amusing level normally. And took it just was well as he dished it out. But if he had too much to drink that control went out the window. We wouldn't randomly get on your case, but if triggered he would be just plain obnoxious to be around.

I also play poker occasionally at a friend's. Drinking moderately is common there. We occasionally have a player who drinks too much and is loud or takes a while whenever they need to act. Annoying, but not too common. Since we're all friends I'm glad to take their money.

We did have one occasional player who was on the opposite side of the political spectrum then most of the others, and he got argumentative and very loud on too much drink once.