I have a 22 Constitution.

I recently had a very long, crazy party, where I ended up drinking a lot. Something like 13 shots worth of 90-proof alcohol over the course of the night (about 6 hours). I know that toward the end of the evening, when I was being drunk and particularly stupid, one of my friends convinced me to drink a little bit faster than I had been before, with the result that I had six shots of vodka in a half hour period.

According to the drinking rules I myself helped write for Tournaments, Fairs, & Taverns, each shot of vodka contained 12 alcohol units. You can drink up to your Constitution x5 before you're so drunk you can't talk. I could still talk and walk rather well, so I must've drunk less than that.

By the rules in TFT, before the 6-shot binge, that's still 84 AU, minus 48 AU from being able to metabolize a little bit each hour, for a total of 36 AU. Then add in the extra 72 AU from drinking the six shots quickly, and you get 108 AU.

Divide by 5, and in order for me to do what I did, I would have to have a 22 Constitution. Or possibly an 18 Constitution and the Endurance feat. Since I know I'm human, and the only way to go above 18 Con is with leveling up, I have to be at least 16th level. Go me.



p.s., Judging by the stupid **** I did while intoxicated, I'll not be trying that again for a while. Apparently I should've had a -8 penalty to all my checks, but I was still able to play Dance Dance Revolution fairly effectively.
 

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Interesting....and looking at your icon. I just had a vision of drunken Ewoks....

It was a horrifying vision. I thank you not.

But congrats on your high Con....just don't go testing yourself on poisons. :)
 




Hehe, I went to school in New Oleans and majored in drinking.

Wednesday: $5 all you can drink beer from 9-12.
Thursday: $5 all you can drink house from 9-12
Friday: 5-6 drink free (house/beer) with a college ID then on to $5 all you can drink house from 9-12.

The best I every did was 29 shots in a period of 5 hours. I don't know howmany beers went with that because, at that time, beer wasn't anything more of an afterthought.

What would my Con be?:D


joe "I can only have a drink or two now: I had to quit because my liver hurt" b.
 

It was at my house, so I just skipped to my room and went to bed. A pair of designated drivers took home everyone else, except for my ex-girlfriend, who had driven over by herself. We ended up sleeping in the same bed, having a ridiculous sort of heart-to-heart only possible at 5am while intoxicated. I think we ended up waking up around 4pm.

As for errata, I think the fix is rather easy. You just need to tone down the intensity of the drinks.

Original
0 - Water
1 - Weak Beer
2 - Strong Beer
4 - Wine
6 - Strong Wine
10 - Spirit
12 - Strong Spirit
14 - Dwarf Spirits

Revised
0 - Water
1 - Weak Beer
2 - Strong Beer
3 - Wine
4 - Strong Wine
6 - Spirit
8 - Strong Spirit
10 - Dwarf Spirits

With these revisions, I could get away with just having a 12 Constitution. And since I know even that is too high, we'll just factor in an optional rule that grants a +2 bonus for having a full stomach, and say an extra +1 bonus since I'm overweight and it takes more to get through my entire system. So yeah, I think a 9 Constitution is more likely.

Obviously we didn't do enough playtesting. Or perhaps, since Russ was the primary writer, we made a mistake in trusting him. Sure, he's British, but he is rather skinny.
 

RangerWickett said:
Obviously we didn't do enough playtesting.

You should just probably quit outsourcing your playtesting. Using germans, scots, and australians as your primary source of drinking information may have skewed your results.... :D


edit: Um actually my comment makes no sense, because if you would have done that the results would have been different than you described.... ah well... another lame joke bites the dust......

joe b.
 
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jgbrowning said:


edit: Um actually my comment makes no sense, because if you would have done that the results would have been different than you described.... ah well... another lame joke bites the dust......

joe b.

This thread amused me but this line made me laugh out loud!
 

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