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I agree time pressure can be a factor often, but since it doesn't have to be, and there are plenty of plausible scenarios where it...

This is the nitpicking I warned about and expected. I'm afraid it would be unreasonable to require me to give an entire summation of...

No, the thread of responses I was participating in was clearly talking about how it was unrealistic for real world people to know their...

No, they're just arguing that taking action that exploits that knowledge as a PC inevitably makes you a jerk, to my reading.

Plausibility of specific unknowns is a factor. My scenario is less likely to result in negatives from taking a rest than yours, but both...

I think the situations where mindless monsters are the threat are a bit too common to say the opposite is true "almost all the time".

It sounds to me like you're saying real world example shouldn't carry any weight at all in this discussion. Am I reading you correctly...

Then again, D&D has a lot of mindless monsters, golems, undead, slimes etc. Like a while a go in my campaign the characters were...

Ok, so this whole thing is just your personal opinion on the issue, and not an attempt to explain how the game works in general? I...

Is this the time pressure argument again? What does that have to do with a PCs ability to act on recognizable patterns of energy...

Your scenario definitely has time pressure, but no single example is evidence that such pressure exists "nearly all the time". Let me...

Yeah, perhaps. It is just something I like regardless of what school it is. Though I totally get what you mean by 3e, and it certainly...

If the pattern is consistent it can be investigated and acted upon. You can choose not to act, but it's a choice, and acting in the face...

I don't agree. There's a time pressure if the world or the GM puts it there and the OCs care about it. That simply doesn't happen all...

I cast fireball to investigate how many hit points they have.