Drinking While Gaming? Warning -- mature content (I hope)

[Mystery Man]

I'm thinking of banning Nutter Butters in my game. Once I start on those delightful little drops of peanut buttery heaven I just can't stop until they're all gone.

They are just pure evil I tell you!

 

[WizarDru]

Now that was a pot-smoker. Makes me look like a puritan by comparison. Or, I guess, like a New Gamer.

My son, you ever been to Nutkinland (he asks in the same tone as Peter Graves would about Gladiator movies)?

Once I start on those delightful little drops of peanut buttery heaven I just can't stop until they're all gone.

At our most recent session, one player brought a box of freshly baked Krispy Kremes. It was bad, man....real bad. And I don't even really like them, normally...but 4 seconds in the microwave, and these were irresistable.

 

[Khayman]

At our most recent session, one player brought a box of freshly baked Krispy Kremes. It was bad, man....real bad. And I don't even really like them, normally...but 4 seconds in the microwave, and these were irresistable.

I thought this thread was about intoxicants, not deadly poisons.
Sad thing is... they're good, in a shameful way.

 

[rgard]

Gaming and Boozing

A long time ago in a galaxy far away...(University of Michigan, 79-83) we weren't happy if there wasn't something alcoholic to drink while playing D&D, Traveller or SFB. Some of the funniest things our characters did or had done to them had some link to somebody (player or DM) being tipsy or over-indulging the beer or whatever intoxicant we could get our hands on.

FF to 2004, If it is just the kids and I, I usually won't have a drink. If it is the grown ups playing as well, some drink beer, most drink soft drinks.

 

[Snapdragyn]

BTW, neither is using drugs. And that's leaving aside the question of whether drug use should be a crime at all.

'Use' may not be illegal, but 'possesion' most certainly is. Kind of hard to use without first possessing, no?

I find the 'anti-anti' attitude curious. I mean, the purpose of gaming is, supposedly, to have fun. I'm fairly certain that I would not have fun gaming with a group who felt that part of 'fun gaming' involved trying to convert me to some (any) particular religion while lecturing me on the evils of being gay. Does that mean I'm anti-religious, or anti-straight? No, it just means our definitions of 'fun gaming' do not match.

Likewise, if being around pot smoke isn't fun for me, why should I have to quietly go along with it in a group? Wouldn't it be more fun for everyone if I simply avoided such a group & let them fill the empty spot with someone else with whom they'd potentially share more common interests (including, perhaps, pot smoking)?

 

[barsoomcore]

You're....you're....CANADIAN?

Heh. True North Strong And Free, baby.

At our most recent session, one player brought a box of freshly baked Krispy Kremes. It was bad, man....real bad. And I don't even really like them, normally...but 4 seconds in the microwave, and these were irresistable.

OMG! This happened just recently to me as well. I'd never had a Krispy Kreme before (yeah, yeah).

HOLY CRAP.

I don't ever want to see a Krispy Kreme shop. I don't think I'd survive the experience.

HOLY CRAP.

I don't understand why people pay $180 for an ounce of coke (or whatever) when you can get these suckers for 50 cents each (or whatever). Sugar, fat, and um, more sugar and fat. It's like an automatic good mood in a deep-fried little roll. I had the shakes after consuming all that were within reach. The next day I was still feeling a little weak in the knees.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

I do dearly love Krispy Kreme but Dunkin Donuts cake donuts with chocolate and sprinkles are my greatest addiction.

One of my players eats something at games that puts all other items to shame. He calls it a Sugarbomb

Ingredients:
1 Box of Fruit Roll-Ups
1 Bag of Cotton Candy
1 Bag of Skittles
1 Bag of Pixie Sticks

He lays the Fruit Roll-Up flat and stuffs a pile of Cotton Candy in the center. He then sprinkles a Pixie Stick onto the Cotton Candy and tops it off with several Skittles. He then folds the whole thing up into an egg roll shape and pops the whole thing into his mouth and washes it down with a Mountain Dew.

Repeat...

If he were to package it he could call it Diabetes-in-a-Box.

 

[WayneLigon]

I don't ever want to see a Krispy Kreme shop. I don't think I'd survive the experience.

I live about three minutes from a large one; the American South is where Krispy Kreme was born. They make fresh doughnuts every hour or so and a sign lights up when they put them out. You obviously need to come down here and check it out...

Heh. I saw something fairly recently: the most popular restaurant in New York City for a short time was the newly-opened KK store there, their first.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

Kind of hard to use without first possessing, no?

Not in the slightest. I've been in possession of drugs maybe five times in my entire life.

Likewise, if being around pot smoke isn't fun for me, why should I have to quietly go along with it in a group?

I wasn't talking about people that object to pot smoke. I don't blame them in the slightest ... I'm at least as averse to tobacco smoke. What I was talking about are the people who've said, "I would never game with anyone who used drugs." That's ridiculous on so many levels, including (despite the opinions of the clueless) the fact that with many people you'd never know.

If someone said, "I would never game with someone who was straight," then yes, I would consider that person anti-breeder. (A heterophobe?)

Wouldn't it be more fun for everyone if I simply avoided such a group & let them fill the empty spot with someone else with whom they'd potentially share more common interests (including, perhaps, pot smoking)?

Personally, I have fun gaming with people of widely varying common interests. Gaming is one we have in common. (There are others.) There are many (recreational drug use being one) that we most emphatically don't. If George's pot-smoking doesn't interfere with our gaming, and Yvonne's gay anime obsession doesn't interfer with our gaming, and my being a contemptible het doesn't interfere with our gaming, hey, you know what? George and Yvonne and I have fun gaming together.

But we're tolerant that way.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

At our most recent session, one player brought a box of freshly baked Krispy Kremes. It was bad, man....real bad. And I don't even really like them, normally...but 4 seconds in the microwave, and these were irresistable.

huh, I'm underwellmed by krispy kremes. I guess they're a little better than other chain stores, or donuts you would buy at the supermarket or whatever, but so what? What isn't? Now if you live in the greater boston area and can get down to Verna's Donuts in cambridge... now those are good donuts. I can get a dozen, eat a few, leave the others out on the counter and still want a couple for breakfast the next day... and the day after that. The things are better stale than anything else (including KK) same day. And they have a cute tip oneil story. what else can you ask for?

Kahuna Burger