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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farganger" data-source="post: 1507094" data-attributes="member: 147">Most (but not all) of the players in the weekly game I host and DM have a beer or two in the social hour when we first gather; the DM's wife at the weekly game I play in sometimes pours us a shot of Crown Royal before we order dinner.  I haven't ever observed any problems with this, and I certainly hope a couple of drinks doesn't seriously impair my DMing ability.It is interesting how our perceptions of these things change . . . and, indeed, we do seem *frailer* than our ancestors.  Samuel Johnson was a celebrated scholar and wit, despite his heroic consumption of port.  During my years in Oxford, most students had a few drinks at lunch and a few more of an evening without (much) effect on their studies or conversation.Alas, for the era of the three martini lunch (not so long gone, in point of fact).  Sic transit gloria mundi . . .On a jollier note, I'm off to the annual meeting of the Somerset Club, and I expect we'll muddle through, even though blue ruin, the demon rum, and what have you will doubtless be in evidence.  <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=":)" />In all seriousness, we've never had a problem, but then again, I've never had a player have more than three or four drinks over the course of a long evening.   And, to admit my own frailty, as a DM I haven't considered exceeding four myself - fatigue sets in too easily at this age!</blockquote>

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