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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 640725" data-attributes="member: 2480">Reading through this, it starts to sound like ENWorld is home to the Gaming Temperance League! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Actually I do understand the pitfalls of alcohol at the gaming table. When people've drunk too much their judgment fails, they get more aggressive and they lose their coherence of planning. But in the many groups I have played we have always allowed alcohol. Why? I think it's because the people I have gamed with are themselves gamers. They know the price of drinking too much, so they tend to police themselves. If someone drinks too much they tend to get ignored and their comments 'interpreted'. Not that it's much of a problem. I can only recall two occasions where anyone drank so much that they got really stupid. Once was in a Pendragon game, and in mnay ways the thought of a count starting a war with his vassals because he was drunk fit very nicely with the feel of the campaign! And the other time was the DM getting drunk enough (two bottles of mead drunk!) that he couldn't manage to to adhere to his adventure notes (we wrapped the adventure up for him!).As a matter of fact I don't drink myself. I can't because I'm on longterm powerful painkillers. Of course that also means that sometimes I am in the same state as a drunk (they are that powerful!), so I can still know what it's like! I think to echo Wormwood, so long as you are gaming with friends there're no real problems with drinking and gaming.</blockquote>

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