Alcohol and Sizes


Rules Questions


So my character from here has an opponent who is a god of alcohol, made of alcohol, and 2 size categories greater than colossal. Now he can create infinite alcohol, so I'm pretty sure I will suffer its effects eventually... However, I was wondering what are the rules for alcohol and size categories?

In normal life, larger people can handle more alcohol. Your Blood Alcohol Content lowers based on the amount of blood in your body. The amount of blood in your body is based on the cube of your height, so as you move up in a size category, your blood should multiply by eight. So it should need eight times as much alcohol to get you just as drunk.

Now if this were already handled with the size increase to Constitution, 1 drink for a size up (8 drinks) would need +4 Constitution for large and larger creatures. Pathfinder rules say you can drink 2*your Constitution Mod. in an hour before being sick, so +4 Con would give +4 drinks...of medium size. Eventually your drink would be so tiny you can't even hold the mug. Besides this, there are also the 'doses' rule. The DC for the drink increases by +2 -so 4 Con needed to balance it- each time. +1 Drink for a Medium Creature each size increase that way. Doses also are a poison rule, so this would also be true of poisons.

So, with my 65 Con or so at size Colossal + 4 (about 3000 ft. across), I can have 56 Human Drinks in an hour before feeling it...A bit less than what a Huge creature would be drinking, and about 1/300,000 what a 'normal' sized drink for my size would be. Which would be about 5000 cubic feet, larger than a tavern. Based on the size of the taverns in the kingdom building rules...and that they are generally only two or three floors high, I should be able to drink a tavern made out of and filled with alcohol.

So questions:
1. Are there any other Pathfinder rules dealing with this that I missed?
2. If not, should there be?
3. Is there anything besides making myself immune to alcohol that would cover this weakness?


What comes in fun is that others will argue that tolerance is an effect, which means that a 100lb boozehound can put your 300lb berserker under the table (at an extreme, but it's a fun one to see play out).

Honestly, as far as small-to-medium, I'd lean a little towards the scene at the Green Dragon from the movies. 'You've had a whole half-pint already!' for the Small(ish) characters. I'd rather not figure out cube roots and whether barkeeps are going to shortchange the gnomes or not.

So,

1. Not that I know of, didn't even know the drinking rule.
2. Maybe, but it's a bit of an edge case, and I'd rather settle it a little more towards RP than rolling unless essential.
3. Alcohol is in a technical sense a POISON ...

Community / Forums / Pathfinder / Pathfinder First Edition / Rules Questions / Alcohol and Sizes All Messageboards

Want to post a reply? Sign in.
Recent threads in Rules Questions