Drinking and gaming?

[Aaron L]

I never liked beer in high school and in general am not one to keep doing something unpleasant until I like it, so I have never been a cigarette smoker or coffee drinker. However, in college I found that always having to find something else to drink instead of beer eventually became a hassle. Finally, after getting sick of hard cider and getting sick from rum, I decided to force myself to acquire a taster for beer. It wasn't very hard, and now I love a good beer. Anyhow, I hope that didn't come off as peer pressure, I'm just relaying my own experience...to each his own.

Well, I didn't have my first drink of alcohol (some beer at a Halloween party) until I was 20 years old, and I immediately disliked it. It wasn't until later that I discovered mixed drinks at a bar, and has only been very recently (within the last 2 years) that I've been able to stomach beer at all. I still don't like it, but it's cheap, and when I drink I do it to get drunk and and as fast as I can so I don't have t taste it. I don't like the taste if alcohol and couldn't even imagine having a beer to relax (the very idea of people doing it, especially knowing how common it is, just blows my mind!), or drink casually; it just tastes so horrid to me that I just slam it down, heh


Hell, I put beer and mezcal on the same level, taste-wise.


Guess it's just one of the many reasons I don't fit in very well in social situations.

 

[Thurbane]

When I first started drinking, I really didn't care for beer, I much preferred bourbon & cola. Then one day, after a 3 hour ride in the back of a van one hot summers day, we went into a pub with a beergarden, and I had an icy cold pot of beer...

...I've never looked back.

 

[Sound of Azure]

When I first started drinking, I really didn't care for beer, I much preferred bourbon & cola. Then one day, after a 3 hour ride in the back of a van one hot summers day, we went into a pub with a beergarden, and I had an icy cold pot of beer...

...I've never looked back.

That'd be brain damage from heat stroke.

 

[ruleslawyer]

Hell, I put beer and mezcal on the same level, taste-wise.

There's plenty of good mezcal out there too, y'know. The bartenders at my new local favorite make an excellent drink (the Jovencourt daiquiri) with it...

Guess it's just one of the many reasons I don't fit in very well in social situations.

Now that's just unfortunate (not your attitude, but that you should feel excluded). No one should *need* to drink to fit in...

But anyway: We never drank during gaming sessions before post-college life, and I don't drink when DM-ing my friend's cousin's group (17-ish) or at the community center (kids proper), but nowadays, with my current regular Sunday group, I definitely partake. Like others, we have a(n excellent!) homebrewer in our group, who also happens to be my regular companion for most drinking adventures, so there's always at least some excellent beer, a fully stocked liquor cabinet (plus two sets of serious cocktail-making skills) and a reasonable wine cellar within call.

As for gaming while drunk: It still amazes me that so many folk think that drinking is such a binary proposition. I don't lose focus at business dinners or meetings over cocktails because I'm having something alcoholic, and there's a heck of a lot more at stake there than at the gaming table, where the real object is just to relax and have fun. In short, I don't feel that the casual drinking I do while gaming affects my DM-ing skills. The real issues that I have with drinking at the table are a) my recent obsession with cocktails as opposed to beer, wine, or spirits, which results in a series of interruptions while I mix drinks; and b) drinking if only a couple of people at the gaming table are partaking, which tends to make me feel a bit awkward.

 

[fusangite]

As for gaming while drunk: It still amazes me that so many folk think that drinking is such a binary proposition.

This just had to be excerpted as a quality fur tunnel.

Well done!

 

[Goblyn]

This just had to be excerpted as a quality fur tunnel.

Well done!

I don't get it. Fur tunnel?

 

[Lord Ipplepop]

My group has quite a few children as players, so we only allow non-alchy bev's while they are in attendance. When we had a particularly popular character get killed (it was his last game with us, and he was a Puerto Rican Dwarven Barbarian that went out with axes in both hands.) the adults all raised a shot of Capt. Morgan's to his memory.

 

[ivocaliban]

It might sound like something in a pamphlet used to tell if you're an alcoholic, but I like to have a glass of brandy or scotch before I run a game. You can call it "taking the edge off" or "just to relax," but it does seem to make things run smoother. I'm a naturally introverted person and it helps me to loosen up a bit.

The problem with that is that lately we've been gaming in the late morning and early afternoon do to our schedules, so drinking isn't really an option.

 

[Grendel_T_Troll]

I am a homebrewer myself. Saying that, I, generally, forbid drinking during the games.

Like a few here, I had too many bad experiences with it, that's all. I found out, in any group I was in, we play better clean and sober.

 

[Wycen]

Pretty much always. Most of us drink beer (Grolsch mostly), but one of us has recently made the switch to vodka/apple juice. He thinks it is less fattening.

I have a coworker who drinks every night. Or at least I hear the story every day at work about "I got so drunk". Ignoring the issue of whether or not alcoholism is involved, one thing my coworker said that made me roll my eyes was "My cousin only drinks Bacardi because it doesn't make him fat".

On topic again, Sunday at Dundracon in San Ramon I was watching a friend play in a game. He had slipped up into his room twice during the game, (couple buddies were hanging out talking over a few beers) and when I went to visit his game he was being argumentative with the DM. Then he asked me for a refill but I said no.

Though the woman at the table volunteered to get him one, but that is another story.