>Michael Taylor wrote: > > Do any TFT rules exist for what the effect of alcohol > is on characters?
From: Thorn You mean canon? Not that I know of. Got a house rule: Drink a pint of stout, or a shot of strong stuff, and save 3/ST. Fail, lose a point of ST (fatigue, but no recovery until you purge the ETOH) Pass, and lose a point of IQ (same recovery). The next pass costs you a point of DX. (Fails always cost ST) It's not perfect, but it works for me.
The only thing I could find on intoxication that was "cannon" is the hallucinogenic mushroom.
Hallucinogenic mushroom. A couple of bites of this kind (dried or fresh) will reduce your IQ by 5 points for the next 24 hours; during that time you will see very strange things.
-ITL page 65
Here are some attempts on the other substances.
Alcohol: "Despite what the masses would wish, alcohol is just a
depresant"
DX-1 for each drink up to five. Five drinks is considered 'binge'
drinking. For job groups that do a lot of drinking, like mercinary, army,
and brigands some tolerance must be acounted for. They get DX-1 for each
five drinks up to 25.
Cafenee: A mild stimulant. Delays 1 fatigue for two hours, then costs 2.
Nicotine: A nerve sedative. It has physiological effect that makes people look calmer. Tobacco leaves applied directly to the skin can reduce itching, swelling, and shorten the healing time for bruises.
Chocolate: Natural chocolate is extreamly bitter. Most people think chocolate is dark and sweet. That is milk chocolate which only contains half the extract of chocolate. A cocao bean is white when fresh, and darker when dried. Strangely cocao is the only tree in the world that bears its fruit on the trunk. It is booth food and a mild stimulant (see cafenee). I heard a story once that H.P. Lovecraft "lived" on chocolate and icecream.
Coca leaves: Stimulant and pain blocker. Chew on a coca for leaf fifteen minutes you can prevent taking 1 fatigue for that time and raise your pain threshold by one point. Takes 6 wounds to get DX-4, and 9 wounds to be knocked down. Multiple leaves at once doesn't have a noticeable increase. Chewing on 10 leaves may double the effect, but you will have a mouth full which makes talking almost impossible.
Hashish: Makes people subseptable to suggestion. Tell the player that their character has +1 IQ, but secretly roll 4D vs. their "new" IQ when they use it. This is an effective way to short circuit someone with Detect Lies.
David Michael Grouchy II
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