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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dontpunkme" data-source="post: 1505582" data-attributes="member: 17938">Yeah my group follows a rule of it depends on who.  Some guys can drink and still focus, others become useless piles of flesh that take up room and disturb the game.  It really depends on the person in question and also the responsibility of said person.As per drugs, in one game I DM'ed for a while, every player in the game was a stoner (just smoked pot nothing serious like heroin or coke) and me the DM wasn't.  I had known most the guys for years and had been around them several times when they had been high before.  Most of them didn't really pose a problem.  I use most because 2 did.  One tore up his character sheet when another player said take whatever you want from the "treasure" of a goblin hunting party out for whatever game they could find.  Apparently he didn't like writing when high.  The other player completely <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ed up directions given to his player the cleric and somehow led the party to the mountains for no apparent reason.  Given that the party was still 2nd level and was ill-equipped for mountaineering it lead to a TPK.  After that experience I pretty much banned smoking illicit substances during games that I GM'ed.  As per calling the police on a player who uses drugs, don't.  Drugs are often a temporary phase for most people and legal troubles will not help solve the problem.  Talk to the person, their parents (if they're still a kid), or someone else who can help them quit without making a mark on their permanent record that could haunt them for life.</blockquote>

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