Wine, women and song...

[Greenfield]

Well, one out of three anyway.

What are the effects of alcohol in the game?

Background: There's a spell in Sandstorm that makes someone thirsty, to the point that they'll gulp down anything they can get their hands on, and even attack their allies to get it.

So what happens if the guy downs a skin full of wine? Brandy or whiskey? Some of the legendary brews such as "Dwarven dark ale" or "Orc draughts"?

IRL I'd expect somewhere between inebriation and death by alcohol poisoning, but as we all know, game rules and reality are only thinly related.

 

[Lwaxy]

We usually let the dice decide, and the situation. PCs get drunk rather often in our campaigns.

Before there is poisoning, the PC usually passes out.

 

[Greenfield]

I was just wondering if there were any actual rules anywhere for stages of drunkenness. Saves, ability modifiers, etc.

 

[Lwaxy]

We usually go by THIS

 

[Dandu]

I was just wondering if there were any actual rules anywhere for stages of drunkenness. Saves, ability modifiers, etc.

There are rules in the 3.0 Arms and Equipment Guide.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I was just wondering if there were any actual rules anywhere for stages of drunkenness. Saves, ability modifiers, etc.

Inexplicably, neither TSR nor WotC, for all that taverns litter the landscape like Starbucks, have official alcohol rules for D&D.

 

[Dandu]

The A&EG is a WotC product. Alcoholic beverages and rules for intoxication can be found on pages 30 to 32.

 

[Greenfield]

Yeah, it seemed funny that they'd have Alchemist's Mercy available to cure hangovers, but no rules for acquiring one.

 

[Jacob Marley]

The A&EG is a WotC product. Alcoholic beverages and rules for intoxication can be found on pages 30 to 32.

If you don't want to use this, check out the Pathfinder version here.

 

[am181d]

In my campaign, all of the alcoholic drinks are named after specific spells, with weird little side effects tangentially related to the spell. (You do NOT want to drink Stinking Cloud or Delayed Blast Fireball.) DCs are set relative to the spell levels, with a cumulative penalty. (So if you have three Fireballs, the DC for the 3rd one'd be 19. That's assuming that the brewer doesn't get an Int bonus, because that would be weird and involve too much extra math for what's essentially a little campaign color every few sessions.)