“Alcohol is a mild poison” has been a house rule within my extended roleplaying circles for a long time. It fits well into almost any setting or metaphysics, and allows you to do interesting things with intoxication.

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  • Ahdok@ttrpg.networkOP
    121·
    7 months ago

    Sorry it’s been so long, I’ve been rather busy and have had less time to draw (I’m planning/prepping a wedding.) - I hope to get back on the wagon again though.

    Anyway, here’s a bonus Konsi.

    • Ahdok@ttrpg.networkOP
      27·
      7 months ago

      Oh yes, although with roleplaying setting metaphysics, it’s probably good to define this to be true if you’re using it in your game. (To make sure it interacts with the rules correctly and has the right keywords etc etc.)

      For example if you cast “detect poison” do you detect bottles of alcohol, or a hidden wine cellar, etc etc. If your DM has never considered whether or not alcohol is a poison it probably wouldn’t occur to them to mention it, but if they have then they might!

      • Malgas@beehaw.orgEnglish
        9·
        7 months ago

        Hmmm. It’s often said that the difference between medicine and poison is a matter of dosage.

        Which means that you could potentially use lesser restoration to kill someone who is receiving mundane treatments for a lethal disease.

        Or, heck, consumed in sufficiently large doses, even water can be toxic.

        • Khanzarate@lemmy.world
          4·
          7 months ago

          That relationship is why in every edition but fifth, healing is necromancy, and why Heal and Harm are identical in 3rd/pf, because they’re the same fundamentally, you just had to tweak the settings on one to get the other.

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    This reminds me of a minor plot point from “if I pay thee not in gold”, a book I read many many years ago that helped form some of my moral framework. Imho, go read it, it isn’t -that good- as it’s rather superficial and they could have done a fuckton of more interesting shit with the way that universe works, but it also isn’t that long; couple hundred pages in big font like my copy, and it’s about women with magic! But only conjuration magic. And only women, for very specific, logical, and understandable plot reasons that don’t make a person want to hurl! And it’s largely about personal growth due to sex with demons!

    Anyway, because they can conjure things and then dismiss them at will, the poor quarters bars are all conjured alcohol, so if any problems arise they can instantly sober up their patrons.