I have a 22 Constitution.

[RolandOfGilead]

The story...

Ok, I thought I'd share my "Drinking" story with you.. though it's more a self destructive attempt to get at my exfiancee. lol.

Ok, my 4 friends and I decided we would have a "Manhood" contest, to see whom could drink the most in the shortest period. We were drinking gin glass sized shots of kamikazes..
Now mind you, I was new to drinking at that point. I didnt touch alcohol till I was 22. So anyway, we drink these shots of kamikaze, all at the same time, the four of us, and finally around 7 or 8, it dwindles down to me and my best friend: we keep going. around hour 3, we get to our 12th gin sized kamikaze.. he's a little slow on the draw, but I'm eager. So I drink mine AND his, and he drops out. I drink 3 more besides. course, I dont remember any past drinking my friends. Basicly, according to my friends, in 4 hours, I drank 15 or 16 kamikaze's, a shot of jagermeister, and a beer. And I HATE beer.

So anyway, I slept. ALOT. I didnt get a hangover, and I didnt drive.

The world has moved on since then...

 

[NoOneofConsequence]

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.

I was just working off the limits advertised here in Australia. The advertising here encourages people to drink no more than two standard drinks an hour. Of course, saying you've had thirteen over six hours when ten of those were in the last two hours obviously blows the maths.

Personally I drink very rarely (maybe three or four time a year) and then never enough to worry about driving (two or three over the course of several hours, with meals).

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

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

It was a horrifying vision. I thank you not.

You know, I just had a similar vision: drunken ewoks playing DDR...

That being said, I've found that a nice big greasy meal (Several cheeseburgers & fries, fried chicken, etc.) right before getting trashed lets you drink more without feeling nearly as crappy afterwards.

I think I have a pretty good constitution... i'm a very... myself-ish drunk.... I'm not giddy, I'm not stupid, and I stagger only a tiny bit.

 

[S'mon]

Um, ever heard of alcohol tolerance? The more you drink, the more you can drink. You don't have CON 22, just 'save vs alcohol +5'.

 

[Ravellion]

Are we sharing drinking stories? Are we? Hurrah!

I have stories similar to RW (23 premium beers in 5 hours anyone? I thought about just renting the urinal.) However, I think the following one might just be a bit more interesting.

At my secondary school graduation ceremony, after we were given our diplomas, we could all have some free beer in the auditorium (can we talk about cultural differences betweent he US & Europe?). In any case, 3 bottles of Heineken surely wasn't enough for five 17 year olds on graduation day, so we went to town (by bicycle of course, we are all Dutchmen).

We ended up at the London Cab, an "English Pub", and the only place in Hoorn where you can get Pints. We had two of those. We then went to Memphis, a pub which now no longer exists, and had another 6 beers. We then went out and er... smoked something which is legal here, but pretty much nowhere else, but you still can't smoke the stuff in pubs. We went back to Memphis and I drank 3 double Generic-Cheap-Whiskeys. I then had two long drink glasses of Bacardi & Coke. I was 17, 1m70 (6'7'') and about 60 Kgs (135 lbs). Alcohol unit intake was something like 21 units in 6 hours or so... but with all but those first three Heineken in the last three hours. Add to that the spliff....

I lost consciousness, and probably was within an inch of my life. When I finally got home, I had two hours of sleep... then had to get up for my paper round. My father woke me up and found out that I was asleep in my own vomit. The round took me more than twice as long as normal, I puked five times during the round. It took two days for my body to recover.

Whatever silly as **** idea you get in your head, don't ever, ever, EVER mix even soft drugs with alcohol*. If you thought mixing drinks was bad... *shivers*

Rav

* Not withstanding the legality of the matter at the moment.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Ryan mate!

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.

Only an American would make a fuss about a measly 13 drinks.

Thats practically a prerequisite here...and thats before you get to the club/pub etc. (and no I'm not joking)

Um, ever heard of alcohol tolerance? The more you drink, the more you can drink. You don't have CON 22, just 'save vs alcohol +5'.

Well you've spoilt it now! I was all set to have a constitution greater than Thors with a record of 39 drinks (about two-thirds shots) over the space of four hours.

Incidently the last 10 shots were taken in under one minute and thats not something I advocate doing if you want to remember the rest of the night.

 

[Malicene]

I drink Stella Artois, pint of, please!

Not a so good beer IMO (even if French )

 

[Derulbaskul]

(snip) Only an American would make a fuss about a measly 13 drinks. (snip)

I'm that rarest of beasts, a teetotalling Aussie (even rarer when you consider that I just spent nearly four years as an expat in Asia... and I'm still off the grog). But I'm a teetotaller because I had two choices: alcoholism or 100% sober... I chose the latter about 12 years ago and I'm glad I did.

Now, to back up U_K's comment, in my youth I was always amazed at how little Americans drank by comparison to a normal Australian night out. Like U_K, a bottle and a half of spirits (say, about one litre) would be the starter before a big night out... which is pretty bad when you consider that I was about 5'6" tall and about 110 lbs. Arghhh... the curse of being an Aussie of Irish descent!

 

[Zarrock God of Evil]

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.

Hmm. I think those rules need to be revised for Scandinavian countries. The drinking intake that takes place here would probably place average con between 24-26 while the average life expectancy puts it closer to 8.....

-Zarrock

 

[Datt]

*snip* 1m70 (6'7'') and about 60 Kgs (135 lbs). *snip*

I hope you mean 5'7" and 135 lbs. Otherwise you are one of the tallest bean poles I have ever heard of, and I have seen Shawn Bradley* play. I am 6'3" 290 lbs, and I can't imagine ever dropping below 220 lbs. I don't think I would look right.

*Shawn Bradley is a basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks NBA team. He is 7'6" and 270 lbs. Trust me if you haven't seen him, that is one heck of a bean pole.