Let's all get drunk.

[Vandin]

So, er. My players, as they are so fond of doing, went off and did something unexpected, and I'm at a loss to visualize the results.

Lessee. Long story short, they managed to transport a rift to the Plane of Ale from it's old location on the Material Plane, to the Astral Plane.

In other words, there's now a fairly infinite amount of ale flowing into the Astral Plane. Session just ended, so I haven't fished out the DMG for more detail yet, but Wikipedia thoughtfully provides: The Astral Plane is the plane of thought, memory, and psychic energy.

So, they've had the strange side effect of saving the world from drowning in ale by directly piping it into their brains? My only line of thought to this is "drunken hilarity ensues".

[LCR]

As long as the plane doesn't drink the ale, it'll just smell really bad.

[newbDM]

Wait, what book is the Plane of Ale in?!

As long as the plane doesn't drink the ale, it'll just smell really bad.

Remember, nothing ages or goes bad in the Astral Plane.

[NephandiMan]

In Soviet plane of existence, vodka ale drinks YOU!

[starwoof]

Wait, what book is the Plane of Ale in?!

I want to say races of stone (the dwarf book) but I would be lying.

The Astral Plane is the plane of thought, memory, and psychic energy.

So, they've had the strange side effect of saving the world from drowning in ale by directly piping it into their brains?

No. The astral plane is just a vast expanse where you can only move by imagining yourself moving. So you could say there's an expanding cloud of ale filling the travel plane (thats basically what the astral is).

[jcsw]

Ooh yes! Rule that any teleportation effect makes you suffer the effects of drinking a pint of Ale!

[Tsotha-lanti]

The Astral has no connection to any individual person and is (I think) infinite itself. (Go figure whether they're potential or actual infinities, and which one is bigger.) There's no real effect, just an "astral anomaly".

[Oslecamo]

You just nerfed astral projection and all astral related spells.

Well, it's your fault for creating something as the plane of ale.

[Cheesegear]

I will give you ten-thousand million bonus points if the God who presides over the Plane of Ale is named 'Ronson'.

[Doomsy]

Drunken Astral Dreadnought for the win, Alex.

[Flickerdart]

Now all your Githiyanki and Githzerai are permanently drunk, and you can summon Alementals.

[Heskan da snipa]

if its being pumped directly into their brains wouldnt they be drunk for...eternity. im not gonna lie, being eternally drunk would be both dangerous and extremely fun at the same time...until you start eternally vomiting that is.

[quillbreaker]

The Astral has no connection to any individual person and is (I think) infinite itself. (Go figure whether they're potential or actual infinities, and which one is bigger.) There's no real effect, just an "astral anomaly".

You are dull. In any game where a plane of ale exists, altering the universal configuration of the plane of ale should have some kind of amusing effect.

[Sstoopidtallkid]

if its being pumped directly into their brains wouldnt they be drunk for...eternity. im not gonna lie, being eternally drunk would be both dangerous and extremely fun at the same time...until you start eternally vomiting that is.

It's an infinite plane of thought and an infinite plane of booze. If the average level of ale in the plane is just right, the entire world will be tipsy but not wasted. If, of course, it worked that way, which it unfortunately doesn't.

[xPANCAKEx]

to the original post - different people are different drunks. Some people are rude/aggressive (massive CHA penalty), where some are fun (minor CHA bonus/penalty depending on who they are talking to)

but no drunk is a co-ordinated drunk

MASSIVE DEX PENALTIES ALL ROUND :D

hold a tight-rope walking contest

you can summon Alementals.

*hits with a rolled up newspaper*

NO! bad flickdart!

sit in the corner and think about what you did

baaaaaaaaaaad flickdart! baaaaaaaaad

[TheCountAlucard]

The Astral has no connection to any individual person and is (I think) infinite itself. (Go figure whether they're potential or actual infinities, and which one is bigger.) There's no real effect, just an "astral anomaly".

Actually, the Astral Plane is infinitesimal. Let logic work that out!

[Teron]

Now all your Githiyanki and Githzerai are permanently drunk, and you can summon Alementals.

Pedantic note: Githzerai live in Limbo, not the Astral plane.

[wadledo]

So, drunken monks will actually be half decent?

[Lord Herman]

Oh gods... drunken Githyanki frat boys.

[Flickerdart]

Pedantic note: Githzerai live in Limbo, not the Astral plane.

They dropped by for a visit.

[Kurald Galain]

Wait, what book is the Plane of Ale in?!

Portable Hole Full Of Beer, presumably.

(and yes, that is an existent D&D book)

[BobVosh]

Portable Hole Full Of Beer, presumably.

(and yes, that is an existent D&D book)

Dear god, he doesn't lie.

http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?o...ok&bookid=4900

and it has a wife.

http://www.lulu.com/content/725484

Bride of Portable Hole: The Book of Neurotic Fantasy





WHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??!?!!

[FMArthur]

Contact Other Plane = failed spell, drunken wizard, Int/Cha of 8 until sobriety.

Actually, I've spontaneously decided to just put this into one of my games: somebody tries to do something involving the astral plane, and it screws up due to it being filled with beer thanks to some insane dwarven wizard.

[NephandiMan]

Dear god, he doesn't lie.

http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?o...ok&bookid=4900

and it has a wife.

http://www.lulu.com/content/725484

Bride of Portable Hole: The Book of Neurotic Fantasy

WHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??!?!!

Gloucester from King Lear said it best: "As flies to wanton boys are we to the developers; / They give us mediocre content for their sport."

[AlexanderRM]

In Soviet plane of existence, vodka ale drinks YOU!

That should be a quasi-official plane.
I must save this somewhere.

Portable Hole Full Of Beer, presumably.

(and yes, that is an existent D&D book)

...
Seriously?
Do you mean made by WotC or just unofficial but in print?

The Astral has no connection to any individual person and is (I think) infinite itself. (Go figure whether they're potential or actual infinities, and which one is bigger.) There's no real effect, just an "astral anomaly".

Yeah, but it's so much more FUN if everyone the very nature of thought, memory, and psychic energy is now permanently drunk.

[Roderick_BR]

Wait, what book is the Plane of Ale in?!

Remember, nothing ages or goes bad in the Astral Plane.

A bad place to store wine, then.

[Devils_Advocate]

Wait, what book is the Plane of Ale in?!

I dunno about books, but Sigil Prep, which by design includes every plane of existence that's been printed and every one that hasn't, has:

Elemental Planes: Earth, Fire, Water, Air
Paraelemental Planes: Smoke, Ooze, Magma
Quasielemental Planes: Mineral, Lightning, Dust, Vacuum, etc.*
Kindaelemental Planes: Candy, Dairy, Booze, etc.

along with references to mountainclimbing in the Quasiparahemidemisemielemental Plane of Ice, and so on.

* If there's a Plane of Dust, there had better be a Plane of Vacuum. Haha, right? ... Gosh, tough crowd.

[Lord Tataraus]

Dumping alcohol into the psyche wouldn't do anything, drunkenness is a purely biological effect. You just have a bunch of liguid in the way so traveling through the astral plane no makes you get soaked in ale, but that's it (unless you open wide in the process...)

[Fiendish_Dire_Moose]

Here's how it works: Your group floods this astral plane with ale. Congrats, you now have a sweet twist for a Silent Hill campaign

[Asbestos]

Seriously?
Do you mean made by WotC or just unofficial but in print?

Unofficial, but it was released for free. I can't find a link for you though Anyway, it has prestige classes like the "Beat Poet" and "Drug Fiend" and monsters such as the "Marshmallow Golem" and "12 Year Old Gamer Girl". And informs us of how much beer you could fit into a portable hole (over 270,000 US fluid ounces!!)


Also, doesn't the ectoplasm that psions make things out of come from the Astral Plane? Does this mean that astral constructs are now composed of Beer?