The effect of alcohol on various non-humans:
- Trolls -- as stated in TROLLPAK, human alcoholic
beverages have little effect on trolls, though they enjoy the
flavor. _Extremely_ strong drink will probably affect a troll to
some degree, but uz can drink a barrel of beer without twitching a
nostril. When a troll wants to get _drunk, he resorts to one of the
fierce troll toxins so legendary among humankind. Note: troll booze
is, of course, harmful to humans (just like human booze, only
incredibly more so), but it _does_ get humans drunk -- or at least
reproduces some of the effects of alcohol poisoning / intoxication.
- Spirits Of Alcohol of _course_ exist, and probably haunt
the scenes of famous boozefests. I bet that certain vintners and
beermakers have drunkenness spirits haunting the brewery, infesting
barrels, etc.
- Do dwarfs drink? Yes. A LOT. Dwarfs are the only folk in
Glorantha that I can think of (offhand) who have invented distilled
liquor such as whiskey or vodka. Though in their case they mostly
make gin, of course (since all you need is water, alcohol, and maybe
some flavoring).
In my own campaigns in Glorantha, the PCs have occasionally
come across the infamous Irongrund, the evil dwarf liquor kept in
iron bottles. It's so powerful that a single drink of it damns your
soul forever. Naturally, any real drinking man knows the legend, and
thirsts for a taste of this, the supreme rotgut. Not even all
_dwarfs_ have drunk Irongrund, which is so sinfully brewed by the
Quicksilver guild.
>We play that Heal Body and Treat Poison have effects on drunkeness
I wouldn't let Heal Body do it, but Treat Poison makes
sense. Note that the cult of Geo has a Runespell of Cure Hangover,
which works on a whole roomful of people. I'm sure this highly
useful spell isn't limited just to Geo.
Sandy P.