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Best drug for playing CRPGs?

mondblut

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Shrooms. I remember one night in 1995 when me and a friend got high on shrooms and spent several hours fighting moths in Wizardry 7. They kept putting the whole party asleep and each battle lasted for hours, yet we found it incredibly funny and exciting.
 

Daemongar

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I can understand getting high and playing RPG's, but most drugs are a social type thing. Other than alcohol, cigarettes, and coffee, I was never a big fan of being stoned and gaming. I think the last time I did it was playing "Demon's Winter" and I just kind of spaced out on the game, and got really into it. Can't quite remember the game, but enjoyed it a lot more than it probably deserved.

One thing I won't advise is taking speed and playing FPS games. That's a recipe for a heart attack or 1st place.
 
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Well, I think the point at which you're playing computer games on drugs is a damn sure sign that you've got a problem.

For one thing, you're wasting drugs.


(ok, an answer. I'll go 'dexamphetamines' - mild stimulants are clearly the global drug of choice for playing computer games. Which also serves to underline that if you're taking drugs to play computer games, you're obviously not getting a lot of fun out of the drugs or the games. Psychoactive drugs should be about having a good time with friends, or for staring at a wall for hours while mumbling 'ffuuuu.....why do I never manage to remember how terrifying LSD feels until after I've taken a full dose...fffuuuuu.....why do I always let myself get fooled by the fun giggly first couple of hours when I know LSD has a 12 hour effect and doesn't peak until 4-5 hrs in....fffuuuuu....'.)
 

buffalo bill

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Drugs are what you do when you can't crpg
"A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.... The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like live wire voodoo and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there."
 

pippin

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I'd just reccomend reading early DnD bestiaries and then asking yourself how high Gigax and co. were when making them.

I mean...

a fucking jelly cube is a DEADLY MONSTER!
 

Junmarko

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Which one is it? Weed? Heroin?

Depends on the game. But you can usually tell when reading certain threads, like the one below, which drugs have been used.

Oblivion Turns 10 Years Old
In hindsight, Oblivion is something of an underrated classic

In this case, the drug abused was most likely Adderall, or some other form of euphoria inducing amphetamine. (Probably crack)
 
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