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<blockquote data-quote="Ganders" data-source="post: 7544693" data-attributes="member: 37815"><p>People tend to assume that sleeping straight through the night for 8 hours is what is meant, because it seems so normal to all of us. However, the rules aren't actually tied to that. The need for sleep and the need for long rests are two separate things.</p><p></p><p>Long rests can be taken without any sleep at all. It's perfectly fine to stay awake chatting and polishing your armor for 8 hours and call that a long rest.</p><p></p><p>Short rests don't have to be awake -- you are allowed to take a nap during a short rest if you want to.</p><p></p><p>Sleeping 8 hours doesn't have to mean 8 hours in a row. It could be a series of two-hour naps through the day.</p><p></p><p>Similarly, elven trance doesn't have to be 4 hours in a row... you could trance for one hour during each short rest.</p><p></p><p>Consider, for example, an adventurer that takes a two-hour nap, then does productive stuff for 4 hours, then another nap, then another 4 hours of work.... repeating that forever. He would get his 8 hours of sleep every day. He would get one long rest every day, and two short rests. And the other three 4-hour periods could be adventuring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ganders, post: 7544693, member: 37815"] People tend to assume that sleeping straight through the night for 8 hours is what is meant, because it seems so normal to all of us. However, the rules aren't actually tied to that. The need for sleep and the need for long rests are two separate things. Long rests can be taken without any sleep at all. It's perfectly fine to stay awake chatting and polishing your armor for 8 hours and call that a long rest. Short rests don't have to be awake -- you are allowed to take a nap during a short rest if you want to. Sleeping 8 hours doesn't have to mean 8 hours in a row. It could be a series of two-hour naps through the day. Similarly, elven trance doesn't have to be 4 hours in a row... you could trance for one hour during each short rest. Consider, for example, an adventurer that takes a two-hour nap, then does productive stuff for 4 hours, then another nap, then another 4 hours of work.... repeating that forever. He would get his 8 hours of sleep every day. He would get one long rest every day, and two short rests. And the other three 4-hour periods could be adventuring. [/QUOTE]
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