Otterscrubber
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Per pint of beer, glass of wine or shot of hard liquor in my book.
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Is Alcohol considered a poison in the game?
- Thread starter Boone
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Technically, I would probably list alchohol as such.
Alcohol (mild ingestant) DC 15
Primary: +1d2 str, -1d2 int
Secondary: +1d2 con, -1d2 dex, -1d2 wis, -1d2 int
Desc: 1 glass wine, 1 pint beer, 1 shot wiskey
Strong Alchohol (ingestant) DC 18
Primary: +1 str, -1d2 int, -1d2 dex
Secondary: +1 con, -1d2 dex, -1d4 wis, -1d4 int
Desc: 1 shot everclear, 1 pint Glowing green stuff
Drunken master basicly says.
For each pint of alcohol drank they get +1 str, +1 con, -1 dex, -1 int, -1 wis
Alcohol (mild ingestant) DC 15
Primary: +1d2 str, -1d2 int
Secondary: +1d2 con, -1d2 dex, -1d2 wis, -1d2 int
Desc: 1 glass wine, 1 pint beer, 1 shot wiskey
Strong Alchohol (ingestant) DC 18
Primary: +1 str, -1d2 int, -1d2 dex
Secondary: +1 con, -1d2 dex, -1d4 wis, -1d4 int
Desc: 1 shot everclear, 1 pint Glowing green stuff
Drunken master basicly says.
For each pint of alcohol drank they get +1 str, +1 con, -1 dex, -1 int, -1 wis
abri
Mad Scientist
So we now know that dwarves CANNOT be druids.Kraedin said:
Imagine the pain of not being able to appreciate the side-effects of Dwarven Skullsliter XXX.
Ps: the drunken master class explicitly says that they cannot determine what is a dose of alcohol.
Let's do some math on some real facts:
A typical student will collapse or even die if he drinks 21 shots in a row in under 1 hour.
On the other hand it is possible to drink 21 shots in 6 hours and still make it back to your flat.
So poison rules have to be modified a little: the recovery time has to be per hour (I'll say two points per hour).
Now the DC: at Dc 15, that means that your regular drinker will pass out (assuming 4 beers/hour) after 12 pint of beer.
At Dc10 he will need 20 beers.
Ok we need more data, I'm going to experiment.
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
Consider the following things:
-Everything is a poison; the dosage is what varies. Water, drunk in great enough quantities, will kill you.
-Different poisons IRL have different onset times and recovery times. Very few naturally-occurring substances work as quickly as poisons in D&D. The worlds fastest-killing poisonous snake can kill an adult in little more than half an hour; most deadly poisons take hours or even days to work their evil mojo.
-Alcohol's effects can hit pretty quickly, but they also go away pretty quickly, as others have noticed.
Treating alcohol like a standard D&D poison would make hangovers truly nasty: it'd take you until Wednesday to recover from Friday night's bender. I think reducing the recovery times would be perfectly appropriate.
Daniel
-Everything is a poison; the dosage is what varies. Water, drunk in great enough quantities, will kill you.
-Different poisons IRL have different onset times and recovery times. Very few naturally-occurring substances work as quickly as poisons in D&D. The worlds fastest-killing poisonous snake can kill an adult in little more than half an hour; most deadly poisons take hours or even days to work their evil mojo.
-Alcohol's effects can hit pretty quickly, but they also go away pretty quickly, as others have noticed.
Treating alcohol like a standard D&D poison would make hangovers truly nasty: it'd take you until Wednesday to recover from Friday night's bender. I think reducing the recovery times would be perfectly appropriate.
Daniel
RangerWickett
Legend
If you swing by http://www.d20reviews.com/Natural20/drink.htm you can download the free drinking rules, presented in Natural 20 Press's Tournaments, Fairs, & Taverns. The actual book itself has a lot more sample alcoholic beverages, many of which take advantage that this is a fantasy game. Orcish shamans are renowned for making a beverage that, when consumed, gives the imbiber sight into the spirit world. Gnomes have devised illusory ale that makes you feel drunk, but has no drawbacks like hangovers.
