Recent content by Narluin

Rest interrupted? So what. Once the encounter is over, go back and finish up the rest - you just add the time of the encounter to it. And one round of surprise? There's a chance you'd be surprised even if you were on watch. Seems a pretty insignificant 'penalty' to me for being asleep during...

That seems to be the general consensus, but I think it's a bit of a biased interpretation of the trance description. Eladrin may be fey, but they're not robots waiting for some event to trigger a reflex reaction! I don't think the trance description means the eladrin is simply sitting...

Hmm... good question. When flipping through the PHB a couple weeks ago, I thought I had read about a penalty for being woken up by an ally, which I imagined represented a period of sluggishness that I'd think would be comparable to drawing oneself out of a trance. I'm at work now and can't find...

See, I don't equate 'you are fully aware of your surroundings' with 'you are fully responsive'. Failing any official clarification, I'd rule that, while being fully aware of the surroundings, the mind is still in a restful state; and that to actually *respond* to an outside stimulus would...

The thing missing from this text is what penalty there is, if any, from exiting the trance. Say an eladrin in a trance notices an approaching enemy (makes passive perception check, no surprise). Can he immediately exit the trance? Without penalty? Or should exiting a trance incur the same...