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<blockquote data-quote="Ninja-to" data-source="post: 5604547" data-attributes="member: 19551">After thinking about this for a few minutes, I think I've come up with a solution I like.Sleeping in anything more than Light armour means you lose one healing surge, and it is cumulative for each day. If you sleep without the plate, you regain one healing surge each day until you recover back to normal.For example, if Bob the Paladin has 10 healing surges, and sleeps for a week in his plate, he will only be able to use 3 of his 10 surges. It will then take him a full week of sleeping 'normally' to get all his surges back. This isn't necessarily game breaking, but I can even see how it could actually enhance the roleplaying aspect. Knowing they're down on healing surges, and by how many, you can gauge just how exhausted and haggard a player looks depending on how many rough nights they've had.The reason for the slow recovery is I can see players racking up a lot of nights in plate, then sleeping just one day and expecting to get everything back to normal. My take on this is that it would take time to recover from this kind of activity.Also, to stop the Hide Armour PJ problem, I'll allow the player to 'strip down' the heavier parts of their plate, treat it as Hide armour in terms of AC, and have them be able to rest normally. This should also entirely avoid the problem above unless a player is so adamant as to demand to wear his plate even single night rather than use a little ropeplaying common sense. If the armour is magical, allow it to function normally but as Hide and deal with 'special' problems that may cause on a case-by-case basis.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ninja-to, post: 5604547, member: 19551"] After thinking about this for a few minutes, I think I've come up with a solution I like. Sleeping in anything more than Light armour means you lose one healing surge, and it is cumulative for each day. If you sleep without the plate, you regain one healing surge each day until you recover back to normal. For example, if Bob the Paladin has 10 healing surges, and sleeps for a week in his plate, he will only be able to use 3 of his 10 surges. It will then take him a full week of sleeping 'normally' to get all his surges back. This isn't necessarily game breaking, but I can even see how it could actually enhance the roleplaying aspect. Knowing they're down on healing surges, and by how many, you can gauge just how exhausted and haggard a player looks depending on how many rough nights they've had. The reason for the slow recovery is I can see players racking up a lot of nights in plate, then sleeping just one day and expecting to get everything back to normal. My take on this is that it would take time to recover from this kind of activity. Also, to stop the Hide Armour PJ problem, I'll allow the player to 'strip down' the heavier parts of their plate, treat it as Hide armour in terms of AC, and have them be able to rest normally. This should also entirely avoid the problem above unless a player is so adamant as to demand to wear his plate even single night rather than use a little ropeplaying common sense. If the armour is magical, allow it to function normally but as Hide and deal with 'special' problems that may cause on a case-by-case basis. [/QUOTE]

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