smoking

[alsih2o]

i am wondering what all those guys with pipes are smoking in fantasy games and illustrations.

in a medieval world (i know, not all games are there) tobacco isn't around yet, and these guys seem to go forever on a single pouch of whatever it is they are smoking. they adventure for weeks and months without a stop at the tobacconist.

what is in your p.c.s pipe?

 

[mystraschosen]

I must confess I have and have had characters that smoke tobacco pipes.Yet I duly note how many times I smoke a pipe and how many grams I use each time(around 1and a half to 2 grams a pipe),and when my pound of tobacoo has been used up I always buy some more.A pound usually lasts along time though.

I remember when my wizard couldn't find anything to pack his pipe with so he just went with some "magical" mushrooms he came across....needless to say that turned into a very interesting session.

 

[Zappo]

One of my players used to have a character that smoked Abyssal tobacco. He had to kill it before smoking it, of course, but it's good stuff! The clouds of smoke looked like small demon heads.

 

[Gnarlo]

They smoke tobacco in my world; realistic, no, but then they didn't have dragons in the real middle ages either

For a *short* while it was called pipeweed, but they all started carrying pipes and doing the "dewd!" routine on a little too regular basis, with all the stupid jokes, comments, etc. Fun for a while maybe when you are in high school, not so attractive when you are mostly a group of late 30's doing the stoner bit week after week This continued until the night I secretly taped everyone at the table then played it back for everyone at the break. They laughed for the first couple of minutes, then a little bit of forced laughter, then just embarrassed silence while it went on and on. One of them finally said "Man, we sound like a Cheech and Chong movie... a BAD Cheech and Chong movie."

This has pretty much cured them of doing the "hehe he said pipe weed hehehe" syndrome whenever drugs come up in the game. I'm actually thinking of running them through the gladiator adventure in Dungeon soon....

/em gnarlo!

 

[drnuncheon]

in a medieval world (i know, not all games are there) tobacco isn't around yet

Tobacco. But then, we've got flintlocks, too. (And potatos, and tomatos...)

I'll note that there was tobacco in Tolkien, even though the rest of the world was "medieval" - so better maybe to say that games set in medieval Europe don't have tobacco. However, that's a pretty small number of games.

J

 

[Zappo]

For a *short* while it was called pipeweed, but they all started carrying pipes and doing the "dewd!" routine on a little too regular basis, with all the stupid jokes, comments, etc. Fun for a while maybe when you are in high school, not so attractive when you are mostly a group of late 30's doing the stoner bit week after week This continued until the night I secretly taped everyone at the table then played it back for everyone at the break. They laughed for the first couple of minutes, then a little bit of forced laughter, then just embarrassed silence while it went on and on. One of them finally said "Man, we sound like a Cheech and Chong movie... a BAD Cheech and Chong movie."

This has pretty much cured them of doing the "hehe he said pipe weed hehehe" syndrome whenever drugs come up in the game. I'm actually thinking of running them through the gladiator adventure in Dungeon soon....

Psychological genius!!

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

The uh...same stuff that's in the pipe we smoke at the table...

 

[diaglo]

smoke 'em if you got 'em.

depends on your fantasy world.

 

[barsoomcore]

One of my PCs carries around a box full of cigars and keeps as careful attention to how many he has left as he does the ammunition for his flintlock pistol.

I approve.

 

[fusangite]

I was pretty unsure of the answer to that question until Peter Jackson made the Fellowship into the most asskicking New Zealand hippies on the face of the planet.

There are lots of options in fantasy games with historical precedent. Ground nutmeg, hashish, rhododendron blossoms are all good options and not totally off base historically as hash was smoked by crusaders and nutmeg and rhododendron were available even though they weren't primarily consumed via smoking.

That said, I've never GMed in a game where a character smoked and I've been GMing continuously since 1985 often running two campaigns at a time.