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[Agran Velion]

Scholar’s Table is a drinking game played among the many people of Santharia. It involves a topic, a glass or tankard for every player, and the ability to keep your mind sharp as time goes on and the drink flows more and more. Although the game has appeared in several Kuglimz taverns and drinking circles as Sur’tyan’s Knowledge, it sticks mainly to Santharian people.


History

The game of Scholar’s Table began in approximately 1592 a.S under professor Adam Torn of The Magical Academy. His students found his lectures boring and drawn out, and many slept through them. Rather than forcing them to learn, Torn created a game to allow his students to study and have fun at the same time. He called it Drinking Magi, based it at the Wasted Wizard tavern in the Inner City, and paid for the drinks himself. His students loved it, but they were forced to pay attention in his class in order to win the game. The game spread across the academy, and than even Santharia as it became a great drinking game among many. Many non-scholars play the game, which has led to many different names for it, especially among different races, but the name Scholars’ Table seems to be the most widely used.

Equipment

All that is needed to play Scholar’s Table is at least two players, a topic starter (usually three people will play, and most will take turns on topic starter), although more players are preferred as it makes the game far more difficult, a glass or tankard for liquor for every player, and the alcohol itself. The type of alcohol differs from place to place, some using mead, others Ice Brandy, some Vhodka (If they can get their hands on it) and the like.

Game Setup
Everyone’s tankard or glass is filled, and everyone stands (or sits!) around a table, with the drink in the middle, to refill easily. The topic-maker, referred to as the master, names a topic, and the game begins.

Rules
1: Once the game is set up, the master names a topic, such as “Name the races of the world.”
2: The player to the left of the master will go first, he states an item, and than the next player states a different one. An item cannot be repeated.
3: The game continues until someone does not answer and begins to show signs of nervousness,  the other players than count down from ten until they reach zero, or if a race is repeated.
4: If someone repeats an item, or doesn’t answer, he must take a drink from his tankard or glass on the table.
5: Once someone takes a drink, a new master is chosen, this player doesn’t say an answer, and he creates a topic for the next round.
6: The game continues until only the master, and one player remains.
This player is considered the winner.

Note: If a player is knocked out from drink, or rendered useless, he is pulled away from the table, and the game continues.

Example of a round

Master: “Races of the world.” Topic
Player 1: “Human” Answer
Player 2: “Orc” Answer
Player 3: “Elf” Answer
Player 4: “Human” Answer
All “Haha! Drink!” Repeated Answer
Player4 /takes a drink, a new Master is chosen, if no one volunteers to be master, the player to the right of the current master will do it, and the game continues.


Footnote: During my trip around Santharia (and mainly in Barvados), I found several students playing a drinking game that I remembered from my younger years. I sent a letter to the library, and found there was no entry on it, and decided to construct one myself, although I must admit, tracking down the history was difficult, especially considering the different names for this game. I finally found some history at the Academy of Magic, who seem to have knowledge of everything, lucky mages.

Sincerely,
Agran Velion
Game Name-Scholar’s Table (Drinking Magi)

[Valan Nonesuch]

Game Name-Scholar’s Table (Drinking Magi)

Scholar’s Table is a drinking game often played among the academic people (Mages, scholars, Compendiumists, anyone with a certain degree of knowledge). It involves a topic, a glass or tankard for every player, and the ability to keep your mind sharp as time goes on and the drink flows more and more.
Mention here if it's an exclusively Sarvonian or Santharian game and any other names if you can work it in.

History

The game of Scholar’s Table began approximately seventy-five years agoThis is a big pothole, one that we're supposed to avoid if we're dealing with the recent pas or a known period of time. 75 years ago would change every year. You could simply say circa 1595 a.S. and all would be concrete. Hundreds works fine, since it's an unspecified number of hundreds, so does "ages" since they both convey that it happened a terribly long time ago. but a number like 75 is not to be bandied about. under professor Adam Torn of The Magical Academy. His students found his lectures boring and drawn out, and many slept through them. Rather than forcing them to learn, Torn created a game to allow his students to study and have fun at the same time. He called it Drinking Magi, and his students loved it, but they were forced to pay attention in his class in order to win the game. The game spread across the academy, and than even Santharia as it became a great drinking game among the younger scholars and those working in the library.

Perhaps a popular location for the game? The Wasted Wizard sounds like the ideal setting for such a game to be played (see the new and/or old Ximax entry for a better idea about the Wizard.

Equipment

All that is needed to play Scholar’s Table is at least two players, a topic starter (usually three people will play, and most will take turns on topic starter), although more players are preferred as it makes the game far more difficult, a glass or tankard for liquor for every player, and the alcohol itself. There is no certain type of drink needed, although many like to use smaller glasses when using strong drinks such as ice-brandy, and tankards when using something such as mead.


Any preferred drink among different groups? Mead doesn't sound an especially Centoraurian drink. I believe the Ximaxian populace is predominantly of that stock. What about Orcs. The Volkek-Oshra might enjoy this game I think or the Zirghurim perhaps since they live relatively close to Ximax..

Game Setup
Everyone’s tankard or glass is filled, and everyone stands (or sits!) around a table, with the drink in the middle, to refill easily. The topic-maker, referred to as  the master, names a topic , and the game begins.

Rules
1: Once the game is set up, the master names a topic, such as “Name the races of the world.”
2: The player to the left of the master will go first, he states an item, and than the next player states a different one. An item cannot be repeated.
3: The game continues until someone does not answer for ten seconds, or if an item is repeated.
4: If someone repeats an item, or doesn’t answer, he must take a drink from his tankard or glass on the table.
5: Once someone takes a drink, a new master is chosen, this players does not answer, and he picks a topic for the next round.
6: The game continues until only the master, and one player remains conscious. This player is considered the winner.

Note: If a player is knocked out from drink, or rendered useless, he is pulled away from the table, and the game continues.
It seems this should be a rule, yes? Also, I've placed a few corrections in red (actually it might seem like quite a few. The last one is more of a preference. It seems that a game could very well have no winner, or that the master could win.
Example of a round

Master: “Races of the world.” (Topic)
Player 1: “Human” Answer
Player 2: “Orc” Answer
Player 3: “Elf” Answer
Player 4: “Human” Repeated answer
All: “Haha! Drink!”
Player 4 takes a drink, a new Master is chosen. If no one volunteers to be master, the player to the right of the current master is chosen, and the game continues.
On the whole, not bad. There's a little bit of fixing to do on the grammatical/spelling mumbo jumbo side. If I've altered wording or similar, it was usually to make the meaning a little bit clearer. The "I know what I'm talking about so everyone else does" is a very easy trap to fall into.

[Agran Velion]

Edited to meet Valan's comments.

[Agran Velion]

Hellloooo?

[Azhira Styralias]

This game is based on a real life game, if I remember correctly. Are there any other rules? Things to do? Why is this a game for scholars? It seems like most anyone can play it.

[Athviaro Shyu-eck-Silfayr]

Why is this a game for scholars? It seems like most anyone can play it.

Probably, yes, but scholars would be the people who can get an interesting game going. It's no fun with four peasants who don't know anyone other than humans and orcs exist, I would guess. When your games go
Master: Races
P1:Human
P2:Orc
P3:Human
DRINK!
Master: Continents
P1:Sarvonia
P2:Conti-whatnows?

they tend to be boring.l

Just my two sans.

Athviaro the Comment Cheapskate

[Valan Nonesuch]

Athvario not entirely true.

Master: Vegetables
P1 Caroots
P2 Kali
P3 Neeps
P4...

M: Cities
P1: Voldar
P2 Thevelin
P3 Where's Thevelin?
P2 It's Nyermersys, DRINK!

[Athviaro Shyu-eck-Silfayr]

Altario≠Athviaro

My name is not Athvario

It is Athviaro

Easy mistake I know, but we Remusians have a hard enough life, what with the cold and the orcs, without you getting us mixed up!

Anyway, I didn't quite get your point. Were you being sarcastic?

Athviaro

The Oft-Misspelled

[Valan Nonesuch]

Too many vowels to misplace Ath.

No, the point is, scholars are not the only ones with knowledge at their disposal. While farmers are not necessarily academics, it's not restricted to things that scholars would know. Things like the names of cities, vegetables, livestock, or if you were to be drinking with relatives, names of ancestors (I could see dwarves or hobbits doing that) could all easily be used in the game. It's not difficult to find topics that almost anyone would be capable of playing.

[Athviaro Shyu-eck-Silfayr]

True, true, I take your point.  I hate losing . Anyway, I'll let Agran come up with a reason.

Athviaro the Mollified

[M´ruk Loshashzuck]

Yes, I agree with Valan. The simpler the people, the simpler the subject, and the more scholarly the people the more scholarly the subject. Perhaps it is still called scholar's table because scholars invented it, but has been adopted by other people now. By the way, I think it should be Scholars' Table not Scholar's Table

[Agran Velion]

This game is based on a real life game, if I remember correctly. Are there any other rules? Things to do? Why is this a game for scholars? It seems like most anyone can play it.

Why yes, yes it is. Although, the name is rather inappropriate.

Anyway, I guess you guys are right, anyone can play the game. There aren't any restrictions against it, perhaps its more of a namesake than anything? I'll edit that.

[Artimidor Federkiel]

A few things, Agran:

- The intro could be put in a footnote, so you might add [1] after the first sentence and put the intro at the end under footnote.

- Note that the term "seconds" isn't used in Caelereth, so when you write "The game continues until someone does not answer for ten seconds" you might e.g. change that to something like: "As soon as someone seems incapable of providing an answer and begins to show signs of nervousness like stuttering and stammering or generally searching desperately for words, the rest of the players can contribute to the situation by tapping their feet. After a while they can start counting down from ten, and once the count reaches zero, the round is over."

- To fix:

1592 A.s - should be 1592 a.S. (meaning after Santhros)

nd he creates a topic for the next round

And as you've been working on various entries lately, I give you also an aura +1 for your efforts, Agran!

[Agran Velion]

Edited to everyone's comments, except for one.

Artimidor, for intro, did you mean the letter (italics) part, or the description?

This part to be exact

Scholar’s Table is a drinking game played among the many people of Santharia. It involves a topic, a glass or tankard for every player, and the ability to keep your mind sharp as time goes on and the drink flows more and more. Although the game has appeared in several Kuglimz taverns and drinking circles as Sur’tyan’s Knowledge, it sticks mainly to Santharian people.

If you meant the letter I didn't mean for it to go in the entry, I've just decided to add a little info from me to make it feel like I (he?) truely worked on it. Who knows, maybe in the future I might actualy manage a funny joke or two in there.

[Artimidor Federkiel]

Yeah, I actually meant the letter in italics, it might fit as a footnote as an explanation of the researcher how he came across it. Just an idea, though.

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