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#1 FitzMojoBob Sep 25, 2014 16:42:06	NOTE: I make a clear distinction in my game between RECOVERY and HEALING/CURING. Recovery is what you do simply to regain hit-points (fatigue, luck etc.), whereas Healing/Curing is what you have to do to fix Ability loss, mobility loss, blindness, etc. This proposal is strictly concerned with Recovery.   Copied and pasted directly from my blog:   NOTE: This is not my idea. I'm stealing this idea from somebody else. Just so we're clear. I don't remember exactly when or where I saw it, alas. Anyway. The person who originally came up with this noted that one fantasy trope, presented in oodles of films, comics and novels, is the recuperative power of wine. Any alcohol really. How many times have heroes staggered, bloodied, bruised and battered, up to the nearest bar, quaffed a mighty tankard of wine (or ale or brandy or whatever), slammed down the cup and returned to the fray, rejuvenated? A LOT. That's how often. So, I thought I would make it available to players in my campaign as a sort of el-cheapo substitute for healing potions: If you heroically quaff a mighty quaff of wine/ale/brandy/whatever, you immediately recover 1d6 hit-points. Huzzah! (Note that this requires actual quaffing, none of this sissy sipping nonsense. Quaffing.) The down-side is that you also temporarily lose one point each of  Dexterity, Wisdom and Charisma. Boooooo! Until you complete a Long Rest. Yaaaay! If you're on zero hit-points, having a swig of brandy poured down your throat will stabilize you, and you will lose the DEX, WIS and CHA, but you won't actually recover any hit-points on that initial guzzle. I realise the danger of this turning the party into a bunch of wildly violent and increasingly incoherent alcoholics reeling their way from one encounter to the drunken next, but I like the trope so much that I'm willing to accept that peril.
#2 iserith Sep 25, 2014 17:39:02	You should probably listen to Crit Juice to see the results of this sort of thing.
#3 Dreamstryder Sep 26, 2014 18:17:37	Wait a sec, the players or the player characters drink to heal hp? Iserith's giving me bad ideas... ;) FitzMojoBob wrote:
#4 FitzMojoBob Sep 26, 2014 18:33:45	Well, I was assuming it would be the characters quaffing vast quantities of imaginary booze. However, far be it from me to dictate how, or in what state, anybody should play their games. If the players want to chug down wine and ale in the search for gaming verisimilitude, they can go for it as far as I'm concerned.   I take no responsibility for the consequences, of course.