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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4360898" data-attributes="member: 58197">Okay, here's my suggestion.&nbsp; For simplicity's sake, I'm assuming that all &quot;drinks&quot; have roughly the same amount of alcohol - a tankard of ale, a glass of wine, a shot of whiskey.Each time you take a drink, make an Endurance check.&nbsp; The base DC is 5, plus 1 for every drink consumed previously.&nbsp; Each failed check incurs a -1 penalty to all ability checks, skill checks, and attack rolls (except Endurance checks made to resist the effect of alcohol).&nbsp; When you hit a -5 penalty, you pass out and are asleep.For each hour that passes, the DC to resist the effects of alcohol drops by 1, and you roll a saving throw.&nbsp; If you make the save, your alcohol penalty is reduced by 1 as well.Under these rules, an &quot;average person&quot; - no Constitution modifier, no training in Endurance - reaches a 50% chance to pass out around the 10th or 11th drink. (Remember that these are drinks over the course of a single hour.)&nbsp; A character with a +5 Endurance modifier reaches a 50% chance to pass out by the 15th drink, and each +1 thereafter increases your capacity by one drink.&nbsp; Not being a drinker myself, I'm not sure how appropriate these are - I'm estimating based on a Google search on the effects of alcohol - but you can adjust the base DC up or down as seems indicated.On a slightly different note, I'd be careful about &quot;punishing&quot; your players for having their characters get trashed.&nbsp; Role-playing a night of carousing is a great way to let off steam; no need to regularly interrupt it with attacking monsters.&nbsp; Of course, if they're getting trashed while adventuring, that's another story - but even then, if it's one character who's always slightly drunk, you might consider letting that character be a &quot;drunken master&quot; type who can function at full capacity while tipsy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 4360898, member: 58197"] Okay, here's my suggestion. For simplicity's sake, I'm assuming that all "drinks" have roughly the same amount of alcohol - a tankard of ale, a glass of wine, a shot of whiskey. Each time you take a drink, make an Endurance check. The base DC is 5, plus 1 for every drink consumed previously. Each failed check incurs a -1 penalty to all ability checks, skill checks, and attack rolls (except Endurance checks made to resist the effect of alcohol). When you hit a -5 penalty, you pass out and are asleep. For each hour that passes, the DC to resist the effects of alcohol drops by 1, and you roll a saving throw. If you make the save, your alcohol penalty is reduced by 1 as well. Under these rules, an "average person" - no Constitution modifier, no training in Endurance - reaches a 50% chance to pass out around the 10th or 11th drink. (Remember that these are drinks over the course of a single hour.) A character with a +5 Endurance modifier reaches a 50% chance to pass out by the 15th drink, and each +1 thereafter increases your capacity by one drink. Not being a drinker myself, I'm not sure how appropriate these are - I'm estimating based on a Google search on the effects of alcohol - but you can adjust the base DC up or down as seems indicated. On a slightly different note, I'd be careful about "punishing" your players for having their characters get trashed. Role-playing a night of carousing is a great way to let off steam; no need to regularly interrupt it with attacking monsters. Of course, if they're getting trashed [I]while adventuring[/I], that's another story - but even then, if it's one character who's always slightly drunk, you might consider letting that character be a "drunken master" type who can function at full capacity while tipsy. [/QUOTE]

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