What would make a good drinking game for your fiction?

Like if fans read your works and come up with a Drinking Game for it what would you expect it to be?

Every Panel the character speaking is off-panel or hard to see, take a shot. Narration boxes count.

Every time the story moves to another character without giving the previous characters a resolution, take a shot.

Every panel/time a new character is introduced, take a shot.

The link is in my signature, around... This... area.

edited 6th Dec '10 10:59:14 PM by Faramir

Take a shot every time the narration uses the word "lumpen," "encrusted," "engrained," or "bright."

Take a shot every time the protagonist is compared to some sort of blunt, endearingly chubby animal. Bear cub, badger, seal, wombat, etc.

Take a shot every time the aforementioned protagonist is described as looking at someone. No adverbs or anything, just "[Protagonist] looked at him." (he's pretty inscrutable)

And finally... take a shot every time a named character DIES!

Take a shot whenever someone suggests that Cyril and Melissa would make a good couple.

Take a shot whenever one of the protagonists bites her lip.

Take a shot each time another of the protagonists complains about being tied up.

Take a shot for each paragraph with Scenery Porn.

Take a shot every time you see a name you can't pronounce.

Take a shot every time a dwarf argues with an elf and height gets involved somehow.

Take a shot every time a Forest Elf does something very nasty. Take two if it's a Dark Elf.

Take a shot every time you want to punch the villain in the face. Take two if you want to shoot him instead.

Take a shot every time something blows up, and take two if it gets sucked through a portal into a singularity instead.

Take a shot every time a character uses an enchanted object. Take two if that enchantment is specified. Take three if a full paragraph is used describing the enchantment.

Take a shot every time you think "x object" sounds a lot like "Y real life object".

Take a shot every time an elf fires a gun. On second thought, don't kill your liver. Instead, take a shot every time an elf can't figure out how to fire a gun.

Take a shot every time a mook gets killed by artillery on-screen. Take two if they had a name. Take three if it was a land mine.

Take a shot every time someone's monologue gets interrupted.

Take a shot every time someone uses a spell with a yield greater than a kiloton. Take two if it was over a megaton.

Take a shot every time someone is run over by a tank. Take two if it was an elf.

Take a shot every time someone uses a giant lizard (of any kind) as a mount.

Take a shot every time you think something is a Chekhov's X and it isn't after six chapters.

Take a shot every time someone in the story takes a shot (or some other form of alcohol). Be warned: There are dwarves.

edited 7th Dec '10 7:24:12 AM by Lessinath

Take a shot for every time my sniper character Daniel fires a shot that won't miss.

Drink a full bottle for every time this invokes the Running Gag "Don't you ever miss?"

Take two shots for every trope you come across.

Take a shot for every cliche. Take a shot for everytime hooded figures or silhouettes appear. Take a shot whenever something is NEVER explained (at least, until the ending).

Take a shot for anybody who is a scientist. Take two if they got their power by accident.

Take a shot for every time Johnson kills someone. Two shots if excessive blood is described.

Take a shot every time Neira shows she is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. Drink the whole drink if its by seducing a hero.

Take a shot every time Richard acts like a moron. Take three shots if its by slaughtering his own people or fantasizing inappropriately.

Take a shot every time Ein Woe mentions how evil he is. Drink two whole cans if he follows that with Kick the Dog.

Take a shot every time Zachaia brags about being immortal.

Take a shot every time you spot a pop culture reference. Two if it has something to do with Avatar. Three if it's clear that it's supposed to be a reference to something that doesn't exist yet.

edited 7th Dec '10 1:12:06 PM by Yej

Every time a murder happens, murder someone.

5 pages in, the entire planet will be bereft of intelligent life, but whatever.

uh OP said drinking game not murder game

Take a drink for every abusive or neglectful parent you see or every harmful child rearing method/belief.

Take a drink for every male that could pass as Mr. Fanservice or Troubled, but Cute .

Take two drinks for every character who shows sociopathic tenancies.

Take a drink for every complicated sibling relationship

Take a drink for every mention of cousins

edited 7th Dec '10 2:23:16 PM by JewelyJ

Last time I checked there is no way that you could ferment a flock of crows, which makes giving someone such a beverage impossible.

Take a shot every time the protagonist refers to a sentient nonhuman as "it."

Take a shot every time the combat goes into more detail than necessary.

Take a shot when Mood Whiplash yanks the main character into doing something morally ambiguous (in the better cases...)

A swig for any Shout-Out that can be spotted.

Another shot for every time the nature of a mythological or horror-film inspired creature is derailed and changed quite a lot.

Take a shot at every flashback, at every Chekhov's gun draw, at every point that a character is explicitly or implicitly killed/mindwiped, and at every intentional echo of a phrase.

Drink a sip whenever there's a library. Drink a whole goddamn JUG when there's a white protagonist, because that doesn't happen all that often in my stories.

Take a sip if:

• You find lavish description of surroundings
• There's mention of food and cooking. Yum yum. Extra sippings if I make your mouth water.
• Danube is used as a verb.

Take a pint if:

• You find something subtly uncanny after some thought
• You encounter love, whatever aspect of it may be
• You can especially picture a musical number in a scene
• The protagonist or other character suffers a mental breakdown
• A scene set in the mindscape/dreamscape

Take a BIG chug if:

• My writing starts to unnerve your (dogmatic) preconceptions of life.
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

edited 7th Dec '10 10:30:54 PM by QQQQQ

Take a shot every time the over-the-top violence makes you want to puke. Two shots if you actually do puke, and/or one of the characters pukes.

Take a shot every time a Gorn scene actually works as porn.

Take a shot every time you spot a Shout-Out. Only half a shot if it's a Music Shout-Out. Two shots if the Shout-Out contains the word "fuck".

Take a shot every time one of the characters utters the word "cunt".

Take a shot every time This Is TV Tropes Bitch and/or Shoot the Dog occur.

Take a shot every time a character is revealed to be bisexual, two shots if by some miracle you actually didn't see it coming.

Take a shot every time lactation or breastmilk is mentioned. If a character is drinking the breastmilk, take two shots. If they're enjoying it, take three.

Take a shot every time you dismiss Narm as unimportant because the scene was still fucking awesome and/or it was so obviously intentional you saw it coming two chapters ago anyway.

Take a shot every time the Fourth Wall is broken.

Take a shot every time the author is called out as a bad writer and/or disgusting pervert by one of the characters.

Take a shot every time something you previously haven't seen in my work is pulled from the Fantasy Kitchen Sink. Take two if the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Initiative immediately assumes this new thing to be a threat/enemy, despite a distinct lack of evidence to support that theory.

Take a shot every time a character with a gun/bow is defeated by a character wielding a melee weapon (or two). Take two shots if the melee weapon is bladed, and is used to remove the ranged combatant's gun arm/hand.

If a character is revealed to be non-monogamous, take a shot each time that character hooks up with a new sexual partner, two shots if that partner is of the same gender as the character.

Take a shot each time Les Yay occurs, two shots if the characters in question act on it. (If they lactate, take shots for that as well, as instructed above.)

Take a shot each time something that should make you want to stop reading makes you laugh instead.

Take a shot for each Unflinching Walk or Heroic Sacrifice scene.

edited 29th Dec '10 11:39:51 AM by Pinata

(Note: Different colors = Different characters)

Take a sip every time:

• Someone's wearing boots, a hoodie, a hat, or pair of sunglasses.
• A certain character says the word "fuck" or any variation thereof.
  • Another certain character chastises him for doing so.
• A certain character starts angsting over something trivial.
  • Another certain character gets on his case for doing so.
• Someone’s hairstyle(s), facial features or expressions are described in explicit detail.
• Someone is called anything other than their name (excluding instances of a character being called something they asked to be called that isn’t their real name).
• Something awful seems to happen to a character for no reason.
• Something trivial is treated as being exceptionally important for a while.
• A scene gets so obnoxiously emotional you almost want to puke and stop reading altogether (you'll be drunk in no time).

Take a shot every time:

• The narration turns into Purple Prose.
• The narration alludes to a certain character being creepy, disturbing or just plain gross.
  • Two shots if, instead of the narration mentioning it, he shows it through some sort of action (i.e. harassing someone in some way).
• Someone threatens to harm another character physically or emotionally.
• Someone is prevented from doing something important.
• The heat / cold is mentioned.
• Someone does something morally ambiguous
  • Another shot if they either try justifying it to themselves and give up or just don't care to begin with.
• A couple displays some form of PDA.
• A character does something / has something done to them that ends up showing them in a completely different light (turns out this happens a lot).
• Someone has a foreign name / is foreign.
• A certain character makes passes at another certain character, who ends up heavily embarrassed / flustered.
  • Another shot if, as a result, said character begins fantasizing about the other character and / or starts angsting over it.
• Darkness or silence is played up for effect.
• Someone jokes about their own or another character's sexual orientation.

Take a significantly large gulp every time:

• A certain character threatens to harm another character mentally.
• Someone has some sort of breakdown.
• Someone gets mildly to significantly abused physically.
• Someone has a flashback of some sort.
• Two straight male characters share a mildly (and arguably) homoerotic moment.
• Someone picks up / touches / is in close proximity to a gun.
• Someone’s parents are brought up (not just mentioned in passing).
• Someone lies about something.
• The scene undergoes Mood Whiplash.
• A character, after dealing with a chain of negative experiences, finally has something significantly positive happen to them.
  • A shot if their happiness is short-lived.

Down the entire bottle every time:

• Someone ends up nude for any reason.
• A certain character gets so drunk they black out.
• Someone ends up taking advantage of a situation or another character.
  • Take another shot on top of that if they angst over it afterward.
• A major character is killed or severely injured.
• Someone starts crying (i.e. tears streaming down their face) for any reason.

I know there are a few a lot of things I'm missing. Might do some of my other stories later.

edited 8th Dec '10 2:20:44 AM by MidnightVelvet

• Take a shot any time I write into, in to, onto and on to.
  • There's only so many ways you can write, "He/She took off into the sky."

• Take two shots any time someone compares the story to the Guardians Of Ga'Hoole.
  • I sorta expected it, since it's a fantasy fic about owls...

Take a shot any time a character mentions the legends.

• Take a shot any time a character's wing is ripped off.
  • After a bird's wing is torn off, it'll die almost instantly, so... Easy death!

• Take a shot any time prey is killed.
  • Characters have to eat...

• Take a shot any time there's a horizontal rule in the story.
  • Whenever it switches to what another character's doing, I like to use a line (***) to separate the rest of the story.

• Take a shot any time I check the story for reviews.
  • I practically live on reviews, so I check them any time I have a chance.

edited 8th Dec '10 8:26:07 AM by Collen

• One sip for any swear word.
• One shot per character introduced whose physical appearance would be impossible IRL. Two if you actually find them disturbing.
• One sip per technobabble term, two if it comes off as narm.
• One shot per scene that makes use of body horror.
• One sip per use of "likely", "turned" or "looked".
• One sip per metaphor that does not make any sense.
• One sip per incomplete sentence.
• One shot per instance of any spam attack. Two if it is beam spam. (warning: [[Bullet Hell you might die)

Oh forgot, take two shots if the person saying they should get together knows they're related.

With my vampire slayer story:

• Take a shot whenever the protagonist uses Mind Control on the vampire detective.

• Take a shot whenever the protagonist lies to someone.

• Take a shot for each version of events there is (7, including the true story, and all lies originate with the protagonist).

• Take a shot for every time to protagonist magically dampens his emotions.

• Take a shot whenever there's a lengthy sequence of internal monologue about the protagonist's plans.

• Take a shot whenever the protagonist gets sleep-deprived.