• Darkard@lemmy.world
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    A rule book for all the different ‘coming of age’ ceremonies and that the proof of those are.

    “Dar’grock the destroyer, soooooo you should have… A…oh! The skull of a foe slain in 1 on 1 combat”

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      Why you need see Dar’grock’s Foeskull? Dar’grock forget Foeskull today, but look at Dar’grock face, he have full beard so Dar’grock clearly come of age already…

      Please, Dar’grock will bring Foeskull next time!

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    I took a sacred oath, sir! I can’t serve you Mr 40 year old Drow or I become an oathbreaker. Sorry, not sorry.

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      Meanwhile, "Let’s see… anthropomorphic mosquito… Let me see that ID. You’re 2 hours old? That checks out, here’s your bourbon.

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        It takes five days for them to go from a larva to a pupa. They’re definitely not an adult, and they couldn’t be confused for one.

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    so it says here cyborg elvish catboomer
    hmm…

    I can only offer a dragon’s vegan tonic with 2 Karmotrine or a pearl of shapeshifting water

    if you aren’t satisfied with our current selection please come back in 2 cycles, I’ll make sure my successor will be able to better serve you with an expanded menu

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    Legal drinking ages are such a modern invention though. It’s kind of funny but a weird fit for sure.

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    That’s not even what happens here though. Just because you can drink in Canada at 18 doesn’t mean I can go to the States, you’ve gotta be 21.

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      Different species may have different ages of brain maturity at which point alcohol won’t pose as much of a risk of stunting their mental development.

      So a responsible legislature would codify in its laws what the minimum drinking age is for each species based on science’s best understanding of their physiology.

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      Not really a good analogy, because the age at which you can drink is based on where you are, not in where you were born etc. An American 18 year old could go to Canada or well pretty much anywhere else in the world and they can get as drunk as they like.

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        There’s a reason why university students in Ontario like to go to Montreal to party, after all.

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    This concept goes so well in a spelljammer like setting. Imagine the Laughing Beholder with large Luigi doing this. “Okay, what sphere are you from again? Okay, next I need your planet, then your species, then your age.”

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    Noncombat or low combat adventure idea that just came to me based on this. A group of grifters has conned Large Luigi or your version of this bar owner by posing as an interplanetary or interplanes alcohol enforcement agency. They pulled a fake sting and made off with something precious of the innkeepers as a fine. The party either hears this from the barkeep when they order or from the other patrons who are fed-up with the arcane ID system and long waits on drinks. Only recovering the fine or capturing the grifters can the situation be set right.

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    Not fantasy, but in the SciFi book the Draco Tavern is about the only alien bar on earth wherein the owner has to be careful not to feed his guests any poison that would be delicacies on Earth.

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    So we are ignoring jurisdiction? … Well… even if we ignore the possibility of an infinite universe, tracking hundreds of thousands of legal systems and species biology (what is intoxicating to whom, the cognitive self-development thresholds, how much of a substance one may serve to whom) and being able authenticate/verify an ID (we have photo-ids, but maybe others are different)… like a slime-species that identifies each other by smell… or taste… I’m confident that for any interesting set size, this would actually be an unsolvable problem.

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      A universal biometric verifier checking against approved ID cards could be interesting in a setting like that