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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfen Priest" data-source="post: 458651" data-attributes="member: 3909">In my experience, alcohol is fine with the caveat that people can handle it.  I guess it's been my personal preference not to drink while gaming (or maybe just have one or two) because if I get too intoxicated, it becomes very, very hard for me to keep track of the numbers involved, etc.However, my opinion on the 'herbal supplement' (and I know from experience that this does not apply to everyone) is that it makes gaming more interesting much of the time.  My imagination takes more unique turns, and it usually becomes much easier for me to really 'dive into' the scene of what is actually happening in the game, and thus, I feel I DM better because I somehow intrinsically know how an NPC would react, or what effect a given cause would garner.However, as Teflon Billy pointed out, (and this should be obvious to all) overdoing anything (inadvertantly in some cases) will probably be very likely to take away your actual ability to game.Basically, the moment the drug in question becomes the focal point, or a distraction of any kind, then it's obviously not helping the game.</blockquote>