I have a 22 Constitution.

[BiggusGeekus]

I was at Fat Tuesday in the Big Easy in 1995. For various reasons that don't need going into, I could only be there from 5pm to midnight. That was an absolutely amazing six hours of my life. I'm assuming the other 60 minutes weren't half bad either.

From that data point I can conclude the following:

1) My Con is around 8.

2) Ranger Wickett could drink me under the table.

3) Joe B. could drink me under the table if he was drinking Mad Dog and I was drinking iced tea.

4) There needs to be some rule about having a zero intelligence and still being able to be ambulatory.

5) If you drink enough to have a zero wisdom, approaching a street gang for directions to a tourist locale seems like a really good idea.

That being said: booze is bad for you, kids. It addles your brain and makes you think hairy Peruvian weight lifters look like Cameron Diaz. Beware the demon alcohol!

 

[NoOneofConsequence]

13 shots of spirits over six hours works out to only a hair over two standard drinks an hour - as an adult male you were still safe to drive.

As for the dance thingy and being able to talk - well how drunk everyone else was factors in there, maybe you did well because everyone was even more pasted than you. And I have learnt never to accept a drunk's self assessment of how well they were able to communicate. Do the TFT rules say unable to talk or unable to talk coherently?

As for what the human body can cope with (as opposed to what it should have to cope with), a couple of years ago a semi-trailer driver was pulled over just south of Alice Springs - for speeding mind you, not dangerous driving - and when he was breathalised he blew 0.5 (not 0.05, 0.5). 0.5% of the guy's blood volume was alcohol. This is the level where doctors expect to find you catatonic and dying, not driving a semi-trailer with relative competency. You may find that you have a natural tolerance, like our truck driving friend.

 

[jgbrowning]

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

heh... often when I try to be funny I just end up making no sense. that is kinda funny, in and of itself, however....

joe b.

 

[Henry]

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

Now, waitaminit! The changes you proposed are much too radical! I wanted a mere revision, not a reworking of the system!! What are you, on crack??? How can you do this to a system that worked so well!!!! Thanks, you just nerfed dwarves, because now an elf can be Billy Bad-boy with a minimum constitution!!!!! I'll be house-ruling THAT revision, thank you very much!!!!!!

Harumph.

 

[ejja_1]

Back in high school, I had broken up with my then girlfriend and was pretty upset. I raided my parents liqour cabinet and made off with a bottle of 151 rum and a bottle of wolfschmidt vodka, I made it through the 151 and could still walk and talk. 2 Shots into the vodka I puked all over the back of my friends monte carlo, and passed out. So thats a 5th of 151 rum and 2 shots of 80 proof vodka. Whats that as far as constitution?



EDIT* Forgot to say that this happened over a 2 hour period, and that I was 6'4" and 315lbs at the time.*

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

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

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Thanks RW! You can rest assured that I will print your entire story out with this errata and shove that into the book also. I'll be laughing over this again a few months from now when I pull this out during a game.

I think it's in all of our best interest to have Morrus become a heavy drinker so that we can have less errata. Everyone buy him a drink at GenCon!

 

[mmu1]

Hmm... My personal "records" stand at something like a gallon of beer and a couple of shots of Wild Turkey over an hour and a half or so, and >15 drinks (And some jello shots. And beer. And what was left in the Absolut bottle, on a dare... Around half a glass, probably...) over about three hours or so.
But I was the biggest guy on our rugby team, so I hade size and practice goiong for me at that point...

Didn't have the slightest trouble stopping either, unlike some of the "Guys, I can't come to practice, my liver is swollen." ilk... I think I mainly just got bored with it.

 

[Morrus]

I think it's in all of our best interest to have Morrus become a heavy drinker so that we can have less errata. Everyone buy him a drink at GenCon!

Sounds like a plan! I drink Stella Artois, pint of, please!

 

[Saeviomagy]

13 shots of spirits over six hours works out to only a hair over two standard drinks an hour - as an adult male you were still safe to drive.

I seriously hope you don't drink, or if you do that you don't drive.

The way it works is this:
You metabolise roughly one drink an hour, regardless of how many drinks are in you.

So - 13 shots of spirits in 6 hours means that (assuming you didn't binge at the end of the 6 hours) you have 7 drinks still in you, which is way over any limit I've ever heard of. If most of those drinks were at the end of the 6 hours, then you could easily have much more.

As for what the human body can cope with (as opposed to what it should have to cope with), a couple of years ago a semi-trailer driver was pulled over just south of Alice Springs - for speeding mind you, not dangerous driving - and when he was breathalised he blew 0.5 (not 0.05, 0.5). 0.5% of the guy's blood volume was alcohol. This is the level where doctors expect to find you catatonic and dying, not driving a semi-trailer with relative competency. You may find that you have a natural tolerance, like our truck driving friend.

My buddies got kicked out of a bar once for misusing the breathaliser that the place had installed - they were trying to out-do each other on the thing. By that stage, it had told two of them that they should immediately get to a hospital or they were going to die. Naturally they laughed a lot about that and then walked home.

Conversely I know someone who worked in an emergency ward, and they commonly got people in for near-fatal alcohol poisoning on the equivalent of about 6 shots of spirits.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

I seem to recall that drinks that include carbonation are more likely, per unit of alcohol, to make you drunk.

Something about the carbonation causing the muscle at the bottom of your stomach to let out a greater portion of the alcohol, instead of metabolizing its portion in the stomach.

That said, I'm not a drinker. That would make me too interesting. The closest I've gotten to drunk was when I had half a bottle of good quality wine (my fee for tutoring a guy through a quarter of Calculus) as well as two swallows of whiskey. I just don't see the attraction.

Then again, maybe it's because I'm either too cheap or too poor to buy the good stuff, the stuff that just glides down your throat.