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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LazerPointer" data-source="post: 1507119" data-attributes="member: 16131">I only game with friends; new people are welcome, they just usually turn into friends pretty quick.  I've been gaming with a few guys I met six months ago that wouldn't smoke weed, and the other two friends and I do on occasion.  Everybody drinks a few beers during a game now and then.  Heck, most of the characters we make are bigger drunks than us, so there's no harm in playing them realistically.Do the RP puritans on this board tend to play characters that turn their nose up to drinking as well?  Do you come upon bands of filthy kobolds sitting in squalor around dirty kegs, slaying them in their drunken crapulence?In the game I run, I wouldn't mind having a few of the players be stoned.  It's something I've been meaning to suggest, actually.  The sober ones would keep a good handle on logistics, and a good time would be had by all.It seems like a lot of the "problems" people describe or fear only happen when people are inexperienced with what they're doing.  Even in the above session, I'm confident that the stoned players would handle their characters well.The guy who said most of you wouldn't recognize that he was on something was probably right, although I'd be suspicious if his pupils were the size of saucers.</blockquote>