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

[GoodKingJayIII]

My DM disallows drinking at his table. The man likes his beer, but this is DnD! I adhere to the same rule when I'm running games. There is a time and place to have a few drinks. Sometimes the gaming table is it, but not when I run a game. Drink tea and soda; you'll stay up longer

 

[BASHMAN]

A good friend & fellow gamer in college invited me to a really special D&D campaign he'd been in for years in Napa. An hour before we were to go, however, he mentioned that "my friends sometimes smoke pot-- is that a problem?" I decided it was not worth the risk of showing up, and even though the campaign sounded really cool, I am glad I decided not to go. Another friend who did show up was there to see what happened when the Cops showed up on a noise complaint! They managed to hide it, but that close call killed their buzz- and the game.

 

[wedgeski]

There's the odd couple of bottles of vino and the odd few tins of beer at my gaming table but that's about it. Mostly its Coke - as in Coca-Cola. Then the only thing you have to worry about is how often everyon'e going to the toilet - that can really break the flow of your game.

Drugs at my gaming table would be absolutely out of the question - but no-one I game with is into it anyway, and I wouldn't join a game where anyone was. That's just my preference though.

 

[SynapsisSynopsis]

We live in a town that is small enough to walk everywhere; so usually there will be one or two folks driving, and so far they've been pretty responsible about not drinking too much to get home; besides, if they ever did, they know they could have some couch or floor.

Last time I checked Davis still had a free taxi service, mostly for drunken university students but usable by anyone. I forget what it's called but I'm almost certain it's still there.

 

[Belegbeth]

My DM disallows drinking at his table. The man likes his beer, but this is DnD! I adhere to the same rule when I'm running games. There is a time and place to have a few drinks. Sometimes the gaming table is it, but not when I run a game. Drink tea and soda; you'll stay up longer

Are so many people worn out after 2-3 beers (over a few hours)?!

I guess most of the people I've played with have had CONs of 8+...

 

[RangerWickett]

Ugh. I don't recall ever getting drunk at a game.

*chuckle*

I did once call a girl I had a crush on who lived three states away one night while drunk during the aftermath of a D&D game, though. I tried to introduce her to a couple of my gamer friends over the phone, and by the end of the night, my friend Ted was telling everyone else at the party how much nicer she sounded than my previous girlfriend.

The closest real parallel I might have is smoking among my players. In two groups now, I've had a chainsmoker. They were both kind enough to limit smoking during the game, and would always only smoke outside. One would take 'tactical smoke breaks' during combat some times, whenever we hit a slow spot. It was rather nice because it gave me time to figure out how to speed up the rest of the encounter. The other gamer was a good DM, so whenever the game slowed down, I'd suffer through his smoke breaks to listen to his advice and thoughts about how the game was going. Those tended to be really good sessions, because I got commentary mid-adventure.

Damn, I need to game with that guy again. Stahn Li, are you reading this?

(p.s., this is the same guy who thought, when I was a freshman, that I wouldn't be able to handle a shot of vodka. Foolish man.)

 

[Mark Chance]

Our game is held in my house. My house, my rules:

1. I drink a beer or two. Maybe a few shots of whiskey or tequila. I never get drunk.

2. If you want to share my booze, please do. But you are not getting drunk.

3. There is absolutely no smoking allowed in my home.

4. The presence of any illegal drugs in my home is a sure-fire to never get invited back.

5. After the game, if you want to hang around and knock back a few more drinks, that's fine most nights. Just ask. But, if you get drunk, you're not driving home, and if you're an obnoxious drunk, the invitation is revoked.

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

I do like going out boozing... But I don't drink while playing, because I find beer (even a couple) and concentrating can make me cranky... just think I've got a weird metabolism.

As a player or DM - I don't mind people having a beer or few - can see how it's relaxing and makes for a nicer atmosphere, but to sum it up:

I enjoy RPGs. I enjoy getting drunk. Ghostbusters Quote: Don't cross the streams!


Except where it's a combined game and drinking session - designed as such and not serious. Paranoia + too much beer was good fun!

 

[Wycen]

To my knowledge I've never gamed with anyone high or even buzzed on drugs, though one guy did pull out some "medicinal" weed, I suspect to get into the pants of the new girl, which he promptly put away, (we played at his house).

Booze is a different story. I can only drink 2 maybe 3 beers if I also have enough food, before my math gets fuzzy. Usually if I drink I am happy with 1 beer.

Beyond that, it is really a sordid story. One of the old guys became an alcoholic, his brother already was one. One guy got snockered on rum and coke a couple of times but since getting married doesn't do that much anymore, though since I only see him once every 2 months, I could be wrong.

Wine never graced the gaming table until last year when someone's fiancee joined the group.

We don't have any smokers anymore, though we used to have 2, and the guy with the weed sometimes smokes 'socially' or 'when nervous'.

 

[Lorthanoth]

I (the druid, this is in 2E so I'm not much good for anything apart from "oh, turn into a rat and scout around for us") and the party I'm sort of attached to are fighting for our lives against a horde of were-rats with some sort of super-rat leader. Things are already tough for our heroes, but they are made worse by the DM's whispered, slurred description of what's going on. The four pint glasses behind the DM's screen are a clue...

I swiftly lost all idea of what was going on in this rather complicated (its 2E), and very long (its 2E) combat, and was reduced to " I turn into a bear, and attack". Oddly, this worked. :\

I came in part-way through this campaign, so maybe I hadn't got used to the DM's "style", or maybe not, as the group disbanded in a rather messy fashion citing DM incompetence, shortly after I had quit in annoyance.

Just say "NO!" not "Another pin' o' John Shmithsh, pleashe!"