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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 2273153" data-attributes="member: 5122">As a DM, I like for my players to have a watch order.  As a player, my DMs also pay attention to watch order.  As I was working on a watch order for one group, it struck me that it actually gets kinda involved: there are two elves in the group, who trance; there are three spellcasters, who need an extra hour of rest (per interruption) if their rest is interrupted.  Juggling everything is an interesting exercise: if a spellcaster has a middle watch, he has to have 9 hours of rest; elves can be awake and assist with other watches, and so on.It gets even stranger if a spellcaster recovers spells at an odd time, like my necrotheurge (3 AM).Does anybody else pay this much attention to this?  I suspect I overdo it.Oh, and I also put together a typical travel day for the group, complete with rest times and foraging.  (Our barbarian can forage while moving at the same speed as my dwarf.)It brought to mind a use for that weird 24-sided die ... randomly determining exactly in which hour of the day a random encounter occurs.  With my new Watch Order and Travel Chart, the DM could use the die and know exactly who's on watch and what we're doing during that hour.</blockquote>