Ugh, I hear you, man. When I took a look at the PHB at the game store, I noticed that it has the price for a hunk of cheese...but what about a wedge?! Sorry, WotC, I think I'll pass on this one!
A long rest isn't just sleeping/trancing, though. It includes eating, binding wounds, yadda yadda. An elf may only be zoned out for 4 hours of it, but a long rest is minimum 8 hours regardless.
I imagine at least one reason is because people who would be writing a thick FR campaign guidea would then not be using that time to write other things that appeal to a more general audience.
Did you mean to say "than"? If not, then you have an odd pregame ritual!
"Hey, Mircoles - wanna play Adventurer Conqueror King?"
"Ooh, the game with Vancian magic? Hell yeah, man - lemme go puke first, and then I will be ready to roll some dice BIG TIME!"
Yep. When I ran my CoC campaign, I just used a small dry erase board like you hang on the refrigerator to scribble down any quick sketches or whatever to illustrate what was going on when needed.
My god - I have no idea why this thread is four pages full of people pussyfooting around offering creative ways to not embarrass this guy who sits there blatantly lying his ass off to everyone else every week at the table. Who gives a damn if he gets embarrassed or offended? He's presumably an...
Ha - we used to watch Xuxa all the time in my dorm in college for some reason. And by "for some reason" I mean "because she was hot and hilariously frantically insane."