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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7156034" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!I, and my players, found the &quot;holding breath&quot; rules for 5e to be FAR to generous if taken at face value for any situation where the player says &quot;I hold my breath&quot;. What I decided on-the-fly was like many other of these types of &quot;rules start to break believability&quot; rules was to apply the rules as written as a sort of &quot;perfect situation&quot;.From that &quot;perfect situation&quot;, stuff starts to get modified. For holding your breath...the RAW are used if the player is in a situation that is perfectly safe; e.g., the two PC's are sitting at a table in the inn trying to see who can hold their breath the longest...looser buys the next round. In that situation, RAW.But what if it isn't safe? We switch the calculation to Rounds not Minutes. The formula becomes &quot;5 rounds + (Constitution Modifier) rounds&quot;. If the characters are in the bar and they hear screaming from outside, and the run outside and see someone being attacked by a sentient &quot;choking cloud with tentacles&quot;...if the run over into it to fight the beast and save people, they use Rounds.Sometimes other factors will adjust this a bit too. Taking a Critical Hit while trying to hold your breath...subtract another round. Trying to perform some physical action that is &quot;jarring&quot;...like, jumping across a pit...subtract a round....subtract another one if you fail, and another once you hit the ground. All very much &quot;play it by ear&quot; type DM adjudications, as expected.So far it's worked excellently. In the OP's situation, definitely switch to &quot;rounds based&quot;, I'd probably knock it in half just because they have been having sex for at least a while?^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 7156034, member: 45197"] Hiya! I, and my players, found the "holding breath" rules for 5e to be [I]FAR[/I] to generous if taken at face value for any situation where the player says "I hold my breath". What I decided on-the-fly was like many other of these types of "rules start to break believability" rules was to apply the rules as written as a sort of "perfect situation". From that "perfect situation", stuff starts to get modified. For holding your breath...the RAW are used if the player is in a situation that is perfectly safe; e.g., the two PC's are sitting at a table in the inn trying to see who can hold their breath the longest...looser buys the next round. In that situation, RAW. But what if it isn't safe? We switch the calculation to Rounds not Minutes. The formula becomes "5 rounds + (Constitution Modifier) rounds". If the characters are in the bar and they hear screaming from outside, and the run outside and see someone being attacked by a sentient "choking cloud with tentacles"...if the run over into it to fight the beast and save people, they use Rounds. Sometimes other factors will adjust this a bit too. Taking a Critical Hit while trying to hold your breath...subtract another round. Trying to perform some physical action that is "jarring"...like, jumping across a pit...subtract a round....subtract another one if you fail, and another once you hit the ground. All very much "play it by ear" type DM adjudications, as expected. So far it's worked excellently. In the OP's situation, definitely switch to "rounds based", I'd probably knock it in half just because they have been having sex for at least a while? ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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