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<blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 6900166" data-attributes="member: 1057">I believe some years back the U.S. Department of Defense oversaw flight simulation studies on military pilots in which a control group was compared with a group that had blood-alcohol levels above the legal limit for operating a vehicle, and a third group that had twenty-four (or more) hours without sleep. Results indicated sleep deprivation proved even more detrimental in the simulators than baseline legal intoxication (.08 blood-alcohol content in many parts of the United States).Which is not an argument for operating vehicles under the influence of alcohol. However, it does suggest that sleep-deprivation is very bad for things like decision-making, dexterity precision, reaction time, and so forth. In addition, there are a growing number of studies examining the effects of sleep deprivation among medical residents assigned to 24- or 36-hour shifts on ward, and the results aren't good.Which is the long way around to say that, in addition to the saving throws, you might also consider sleep-deprivation effects expressed as things like penalties to dexterity-based activity, reductions on intelligence-based and wisdom-based checks, and similar, as well as eventual h.p. damage at some point. Sleep deprivation is bad. There's a reason our brains need rest cycles.Still learning,Robert</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warrior Poet, post: 6900166, member: 1057"] I believe some years back the U.S. Department of Defense oversaw flight simulation studies on military pilots in which a control group was compared with a group that had blood-alcohol levels above the legal limit for operating a vehicle, and a third group that had twenty-four (or more) hours without sleep. Results indicated sleep deprivation proved even more detrimental in the simulators than baseline legal intoxication (.08 blood-alcohol content in many parts of the United States). Which is [I]not[/I] an argument for operating vehicles under the influence of alcohol. However, it does suggest that sleep-deprivation is very bad for things like decision-making, dexterity precision, reaction time, and so forth. In addition, there are a growing number of studies examining the effects of sleep deprivation among medical residents assigned to 24- or 36-hour shifts on ward, and the results aren't good. Which is the long way around to say that, in addition to the saving throws, you might also consider sleep-deprivation effects expressed as things like penalties to dexterity-based activity, reductions on intelligence-based and wisdom-based checks, and similar, as well as eventual h.p. damage at some point. Sleep deprivation is [I]bad[/I]. There's a reason our brains need rest cycles. Still learning, Robert [/QUOTE]

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