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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2883406" data-attributes="member: 18280">The longest I have been awake before falling asleep was approximately 3 days.  Under your system, after the first 24 hours I would have to make Con checks every hour....i.e., at least 24 Con checks by the end of the second day, and at least another 12-15 Con checks before I passed out (this was in the glory days of my youth, on a long weekend at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana).  So, say, a conservative total of 39 hours sleep required before I am not exhausted?In real life, I slept about 3 hours then a friend woke me up to go and do something else.  After an initial period of grogginess (lasting maybe an hour, memory is fuzzy here) I was good to go for another 6-8 hours.  So I would say, consider making Con checks at 4-hour intervals if the character is active (it is easier to stay awake doing stuff), or 30-minute intervals if not (hard to keep watch; Concentration checks might be appropriate here).  Once the character sleeps, require 8 hours of sleep for the first 24 hours, plus another hour sleep per 8 hours thereafter (this means, for example, that my sleep requirment should have been about 13 hours).  If the character is awakened early, he is fatigued, but is allowed a Con check each hour to "throw the condition off", becoming alert again.  However, he must then make a Con check each hour to avoid becoming fatigued, then exhausted, then asleep.</blockquote>

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