Alchohol During A D&D Game?
- Thread starter Thunt
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I think the group I play with has learned the lesson of alcohol consumption before gaming. Our DM moved about 5 hours away and we had a road trip to go play for the weekend. We arrived on a Friday night and consumed beer and a few mixed drinks. I was feeling the effects after only 3 hours of sleep. Everyone else was worse off than I was.
It was a hard 12 hours of gaming and the weekend sucked! Personally, during the session it isn't a problem providing the 1/hr rule is applied. Before a session, out of the question.
Game On!
It was a hard 12 hours of gaming and the weekend sucked! Personally, during the session it isn't a problem providing the 1/hr rule is applied. Before a session, out of the question.
Game On!
eris404
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It really depends on the players to me. Most of our gaming group can have a beer or two and not be disruptive - it's really not a big deal at all. However, there is one player I can think of though who is not a good drunk, that is, he gets a little aggressive if he's had too many. So it really depends on how well you know the players.
SweeneyTodd
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Gaming's a social event like any other, for us. We play for a few hours on weekend evenings after pizza. You'd better believe there's beverages involved.
Rel
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Arrgh! Mark! said:
Unless you object, I think I've got a new .sig.
Alcohol is not something we think much about in our group. Sometimes somebody will have 2-3 beers or ciders, usually not. It's never been a big deal either way and I don't see it becoming one either.
The guy whose house we currently play at has taken to having a scotch on the rocks late in the evenings every night. It doesn't seem to negatively impact his play or disrupt the group. I will say that last session another player decided to join him in having such a drink and, as he was not used to it, found himself saying, "Um, somebody is going to have to drive me home!" We're all friends and I doubt the player in question will repeat this mistake any time soon so no harm done.
Any game benefits from "a beer or two." More relaxed "beer and pretzels" games with a strong camp or hack 'n slash component can benefit from up to 4-6 beers per person.Thunt said:
Ultimately, it's really about the kind of people you are gaming with. Drinking socially, like everything else, is a learned skill. If the people in your game have not invested energy and/or time in acquiring this skill, even a small amount of alcohol can cause your game to go awry. In this way, it is somewhat fair to engage in a little age discrimination; there are few 18 year old gamers who have mastered social drinking, whereas a group of 30+ players should all have.
In my view, alcohol and gaming are a very good mix. The D&D group I'm in every week polishes off 2-3 bottles of wine (amongst 3-5 players and the GM) per session and that's pretty much ideal. Unless your group is very young or involves intense immersion or puzzle-solving, go for it.
fusangite said:
Spot on (at least in my experience).
When I read threads like this I am always very thankful that the group I play in, and the group I DM are such great folks! I can't imagine proscribing the consumption of alcohol, or being particularly comfortable in a group that had such a proscription (absent some personal tragedy in the DM's or a player's past that made such a rule understandable). Most of the players in both groups I'm involved in have a drink or two during a session, and it's one of the many pleasures of the evening, facilitating both roleplay and conversation.
Of course, I'm fortunate in that no one I play with shows any tendency to really "overdo" it. When DMing, I do find that more than three drinks slows me down a bit, so I avoid that, but I have one player (a former wrestler of somewhat heroic proportions) who manages to put away six or so beers in the course of an evening without noticeable effect.
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