In a scale from preachy-straightedge to full-blown-alcoholic, what does your PC stand?

i-is that natty boh?

My character doesn't drink because doing so would interfere with "THE VOICES". Is that still straight-edge?

She's Russian.

Whiskey Priest.

FULL BLOWN ALCOHOLIC PREACHER.

Shit, we have the same idea

What's your campaign?

He's about two drinks knurd at all times; one is too much, two is not enough.

It's an Eva game. Everyone is as much of an alcoholic as they can be without being able to buy booze. She's gonna be a mess if the world survives the end of the campaign.

Drinks a small amount in social situations. He is however a habitual smoker.

He's a devout priest, but he's a devout priest of a god who's motto is "Live life to the fullest", so He'll frequently buy booze for the homeless and downtrodden and drink with them all day.

Uh... probably "German Monk," if I had to give it a best guess. That's the Paladin, anyway. The Inquisitor I play in a less serious game drinks herbal tea.

storytime?

It's a pirate campaign. Full-blown-alcoholic.

Are you kidding? They're the most pedantic prechy assholes you can find

Formerly full-blown(wealthy aristocratic upbringing, with little moral guidance from his family), now social. Usually.
Unless someone, such as an oni or two, runs their mouth off about being the hardest drinkers in their realm, then he will damn sure represent his hometown/home'verse, and Abel help whoever's unfortunate enough to have to pick up the tab.
The last time this happened ended in a draw between him and the leader of the Four Devas.

I never drink (seriously, it tastes awful) yet I never give people a hard time for it.

Non-preachy straight edge.
Or rather, silently preachy; he judges pretty much everyone for indulging in vice and substance, but doesn't care enough to say anything.

Basically, along the lines of:
"I think you're fucking stupid, but I don't care if you want to kill yourself with booze"

They're right, though, and I like how you consider honest concern for others health to be "preachy".

>dude, why don't you support me being self-harming hedonist?

Preachy alcoholic

My character is an alcoholic, but in a more withdrawn way. He does his hard drinking in bouts of depression when he's alone, and can mostly control himself when part of a group.

Laid-back straightedge? I usually volunteer to be designated driver.

Lightweight anime asian

It kind of fits, my human rogue has kitsune heritage so he's literally THAT Japanese trope

Militant social drinker. If HE is drinking, YOU are drinking. if you aren't drinking, He isn't drinking.

>get turned into a loli

Fucking punch your GM, and if you intended it to happen your GM should punch you.

With the sole exception of my revenant character, all my characters drink, often to excess and out of self destructive tendencies.

I don't drink and have never been drunk, and thus this has proven fairly difficult to play despite frequently being around drunk people.

Well, that's not really what people mean by straight edge. That's just not being into booze.

Straight edge comes from punk, where you'd get punks who don't do any drugs or alcohol as part of a moral imperative. Which has a reputation of attracting jerks who try to ruin everyone else's fun. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_edge

You're doing it right.

His alcoholism was so bad that not even being turned into a vampire stopped it, now he only feeds off of people who've been drinking.

so what you're telling me is that it's like normalizing your porn and now you gotta go deeper into the fetish to feel something? you gotta rebel against something but you're surrounded by sex drugs and rock and roll, so you picked one?

I could see it. Like Drizzt rebelling against the drow's evil, and my friend's character, who was a drow who's family had all sought freedom from the drow reputation, so he rebelled against his dad by being the most evil bastard he could be.

>in reaction to hedonistic excess, people take on a life of sobriety and espouse it to others
>this is bad

Or like in Shaman King.
>mikihisa asakura is a hardworking shaman
>yoh is the most laidback motherfucker and kinda hates his dad, needs to be convinced to train, working to win the shaman fight so he'll become God and never have to work again
>hana definitely hates his parents (they got him killed as an infant when they brought him to Baghdad DURING THE BOMBING then left him at home with yoh's stalker to go traveling) so he's the most hotblooded fucker alive
Or like in Naruto.
>minato and other older figures represent nationalistic ways of thinking
>naruto actively recruits help from outside sources
>boruto thinks the whole system is bullshit and the ninja village system should be scrapped

Character is usually too busy to drink much. The couple times he's actually sat down for serious hedonism, he drank the party alcoholic under the table.

Not saying there's anything bad with not doing drugs, but some people can be jerks about it.

And the history of the straight edge movement has made 'straight edge' a term for a person who evangelizes their abstinence from said excesses. Usually in a "holier than thou" kind of way.

Rolled 19 (1d20)

I drink while in town but rarely get very drunk, in case of surprise attacks

Woah there, cool your jets faggot. The ritual in question was a young girl getting her soul slurped out in sacrifice. We didn't have any real way to stop it so my character just jumped in the middle of things and hoped for the best. Of course the best doesn't happen in desperation plays, my character was fucked, but nyarlathotep did us a """favor""". One empty shell of a waif and one fucked up investigator got smeared together. It wasn't ideal and I sincerely considered ending the character via suicide there. But it all worked out in the end, and it was fun.

I second this

Necromancer, so quite familiar with spirits

Carlos please go and stay go

I mean, yeah, they're assholes, but they at least have a reason to be assholes about it.
Abstaining from drugs and drink is an objectively good thing, and it does make someone a better person than others for it.
Now, them being assholes about it cancels out that goodness and often makes them worse, but that's just virtue calculus.

.....Not sure where this one goes, really.
On the one hand, Character takes pulls from ever full flask instead of conventional punctuation when talking to give a usage idea.

On the other, He's a Warforged. The flask is a mild poison that he has built into his body to run from mouth to internal arrow storage. The dwarf Rouge who found out the flask's nature died from Crit Failing his constitution save twice.

Back to the first hand, PC kept the flask after this, giving zero effs for the dead flask thief.

Thoughts?

What did you want to hear about?

The drinking is because the party's guardian is White!Misato, who is very understanding about what they're going through and not a great influence in general. It also helps that one of the Pilots turned out to be an Angel, and now he uses his AT powers to pull bottles of scotch out of wormholes.

I could go on about my character, but suffice to say she might be a sociopath, is definitely a masochist, loves violence, has killed human beings (in self-defense), and doesn't know what to do with herself once/if the Angels stop coming. I foresee a future of drunken fistfights until someone stabs her (which might be impossible by RAW, since she has Combat 93).

Dmitri, my hunter in paranormal is quite the alcoholic. the party has never seen him sober in over 6 months of working with him, most of which has been spent on the road in a VW micro-bus. and no it isn't painted like the mystery machine. it is however packed with enough guns and explosives to wipe out a small town. which is pretty handy when one of the party mystics seems to create or free another monster every other session. still haven't had a good excuse to use the flammenwerfer yet.

the gnoll ranger vanna brews her own hooch from potatoes and honey her 350 lb dire honey badger helps her find. she triple distills it to get it up to about 180 proof before adding more honey and cracked black peppercorns. she doesn't age it in barrels but seals it in glass bottles with good beeswax stoppers so it keeps its potency and wicked bite. gnolls don't have a very refined pallet so she prefers strong flavors to anything more nuanced.

the ysoki tech uses alcohol as part of his daily regiment of chemicals. he prefers stimulants throughout the day like caffeine and various adderal like chemical cocktails to maximize his mental performance. however this tends to send his brain into a frenzy of activity that can be downright impossible to quell without some form of downer. which is where the alcohol comes in. along with small amounts of morphine to induce sleep. if left unmediated he becomes a very imbalanced mixture of mania and usually can't sleep for days. during which his condition deteriorates gradually until he can no longer function and passes out wherever he happens to be. he wakes up after a few hours and picks right back up where he left off as if nothing happens. he blames it on the shrapnel lodged in his skull but the truth is he wasn't right in the head BEFORE that grenade went off in his hand.

most of my other characters at least drink socially despite the fact i almost never do IRL, just doesn't agree with me.

No drinking in the morning is my dwarf fighter's only rule.

Former alcoholic.

Now an ubermensch-preaching anti-alcoholic.

He doesn't mind a drink every now and then as long as it doesn't interfere with adventurin', but he's getting fed up with certain party members spending most of their time and resources outside of combat on increasing their booze stash.

After his wife and kids died he was an alcoholic, but with the help of his dwarven cleric friend he only drinks once in a while now.

Current: Pixie Rider, noisy little punk. He's a social drinker, and too often the one that turns the party into a mess.
Lizard Rogue, gentleman thief. He doesn't drink himself unless courtesy demands it, but won't blame anyone who does.
Oldschool Lasombra priest, decadent intellectual. He sure enjoys a good whine, a true connoisseur can taste it through the blood.
Nosferatu antitribu ripper, grotesque lowlife. Why have alcohol when you can have heroine?

Is there a spot on the scale for the type who's completely new to drinking and alcohol in general, buys the most booze of the entire party and still wonders what he's doing wrong when after a night of drunken debauchery he's still sober as a teetotaler despite drinking as much as the rest of the party combined?

Most small towns only offer whoreing, gambling, and drinking to pass the time, so it'd be rude not to at least drink like a fish during your stay. Its mostly a cultural thing really; not getting shit-faced is akin to not cleaning your plate.

Imperial Navy vet. He performs 201.6% better when drunk. It's his preferred state of being.