TOPIC: Ales, Meads and Stouts

Looking at all these items, I cannot help but think, if a party really go into a dungeon loaded up with ales, meads and stouts...well, it would be a very fun party indeed.

I think someone already noted how to make a drunken master monk template that involved the alchemist pouch, the belt of retrieval, and scads of liquid goodies.

<br />Looking at all these items, I cannot help but think, if a party really go into a dungeon loaded up with ales, meads and stouts...well, it would be a very fun party indeed.<br />

<br /><br />1.  It's better than drinking that slimy and nasty water that's dripping down the walls.  I mean, the Gods only know what's been using that water for a waste recycling system.<br /><br />2.  It's well-known that a moderate alcoholic intake dulls pain to a decent degree.  Furthermore, it's been shown that patients in great pain can safely ingest larger doses of pain medications than patients who are not in pain.  Therefore, it's ok for us to drink more as we get into more combat(bad logic, I know, but any port in a storm, eh?).<br /><br />3.  Alcoholism and binge drinking are excellent ways to briefly forget the horrors of dungeon delving and all the things that could happen.  I mean who wants to remember getting a nasty cut from some rusty sword or the way your leathers ride up and tighten uncomfortably when they get wet?<br /><br />4.  Alcoholism and binge drinking are well-known attributes of most adventurers.  Even most Paladins are allowed to drink unless their God specifically denies it.  Why destroy the dashing image of adventurers by being a tee-totaller?<br /><br />5.  Drinking has been scientifically shown to be good for you, so why not drink a lot?(No distinctions between moderation and over-doing it here. =) )

Ah, I never learned to drink - I feel like I'm missing out on something.<br />

<br />Ah, I never learned to drink - I feel like I'm missing out on something.<br /><br />

<br /><br />You are and you aren't.  The best alcohols are definitely acquired tastes and most of them work better with food, thus the whole moderation thing.  The alcohols that don't have a taste or mixed into drinks to mask the alcoholic taste are not quite as good for you.  On the other hand, the mellowness of chemically induced relaxation can be quite pleasant so long as you don't take it too far.  The hard part is deciding where your level of mellow is and maintaining that level instead of getting blasted or not reaching that level at all.<br /><br />Going without alcohol at all is not a bad thing at all.  Just leaves more for the rest of us.  =D  Not to mention that it provides endless amusement to those who don't drink.  There's not much more fun than going to a party where almost everyone is blasted drunk and you're not.  There are all kinds of things you can do to amuse yourself with them.  One of my favorites in school at the frat parties was to sit on the couch and position a broom under the couch with the handle sticking out.  You can maneuver it with your feet so that the handle will trip people up and then hide it before they can realize why they just stumbled and spilled their drink all over someones shirt.

I had friends at parties tell me that when they were drunk and I was sober that I was absolutely hilarious.  Not sure what that meant! <br />

When you're drunk with friends almost anything is hilarious.  Much like weed.  Except that being drunk can turn awfully bad awfully quick.  Thus the references to worshipping the porcelain god and that horrible feeling in the pit of your stomach among other things.  One of the worst alcohol experiences are when your good feelings turn abruptly around, then it can get pretty bad.<br /><br />Then, of course, there are the mean/bad drunks.  They're no fun to be around unless you're messing with them, and even then it can get serious pretty quick.  On the plus side, they tend not to be very accurate with their weapons, be they fists, feet, elbows, knees, or something else.  On the minus side, the fact that you have to worry about that in the first place is not a good thing.<br /><br />I rarely get drunk myself.  I found my personal enjoyment level a long time ago and I've learned how to sip a drink and keep that level going for a long time without having a hangover the next day.  I usually don't even do that, though.  Usually it's just some wine or beer with whatever I'm eating.  I average a case of beer or apple cider a year, a bottle of good port every three months, and a bottle of wine a month.  I save the good rum and whiskeys for long periods of time because they keep well and are good for maintaining those nice mellows when I feel like having one.

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<br />Ah, I never learned to drink - I feel like I'm missing out on something.<br /><br />

<br /><br />You are and you aren't.  The best alcohols are definitely acquired tastes and most of them work better with food, thus the whole moderation thing.  The alcohols that don't have a taste or mixed into drinks to mask the alcoholic taste are not quite as good for you.  On the other hand, the mellowness of chemically induced relaxation can be quite pleasant so long as you don't take it too far.  The hard part is deciding where your level of mellow is and maintaining that level instead of getting blasted or not reaching that level at all.<br /><br />Going without alcohol at all is not a bad thing at all.  Just leaves more for the rest of us.   =D  Not to mention that it provides endless amusement to those who don't drink.  There's not much more fun than going to a party where almost everyone is blasted drunk and you're not.  There are all kinds of things you can do to amuse yourself with them.  One of my favorites in school at the frat parties was to sit on the couch and position a broom under the couch with the handle sticking out.  You can maneuver it with your feet so that the handle will trip people up and then hide it before they can realize why they just stumbled and spilled their drink all over someones shirt.<br />

<br />I totally agree.  I got my fill of alcohol my first year at college.  Since then I periodically have one drink with a meal, typically a micro brew or a Guiness.  Jenny would agree that those are definitly an acquired taste.  (She does not even like the smell of Guiness =) )  I would also agree that you are not missing out on much by passing it all by.<br />