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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6558593" data-attributes="member: 2067">I'd parse that like this - &quot;Up to 1 hour&quot; there = &quot;until after your next short rest.&quot; (1-2 encounters or 1 day)&quot;Up to 8 hours&quot; there = &quot;until after 2 short rests.&quot; (3-4 encounters or 2 days)&quot;Up to 24 hours&quot; there = &quot;until after your next long rest.&quot; (5-6+ encounters or 3 days)Keeping it going &quot;through sleep&quot; just means that a night's sleep isn't quite the same as the &quot;unconscious&quot; status -- unconsciousness is the insensate numbness of deep, intractable sleep, and no one is going to get that on the frontier, far from home, with a belly full of hard tack and the wolves howling in the distance. You rest - enough to recover a bit - but it's a light, fitful sleep, never really deep and comfortable when you're out of civilization. (This also helps make waking up and being ready in the event of an ambush more plausible)If you want to concentrate on a spell over night, feel free. Maybe concentrating on Hunter's Mark means you dream about your quarry, imagine their face when you deliver the killing blow, think about where they might have gone, rehearse their fate in your head at night. And if something drops you unconscious, you can still lose the spell - that's the deep black numbness of oblivion, not the light, active concern of a sleep out in the hinterlands.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6558593, member: 2067"] I'd parse that like this - "Up to 1 hour" there = "until after your next short rest." (1-2 encounters or 1 day) "Up to 8 hours" there = "until after 2 short rests." (3-4 encounters or 2 days) "Up to 24 hours" there = "until after your next long rest." (5-6+ encounters or 3 days) Keeping it going "through sleep" just means that a night's sleep isn't quite the same as the "unconscious" status -- unconsciousness is the insensate numbness of deep, intractable sleep, and no one is going to get that on the frontier, far from home, with a belly full of hard tack and the wolves howling in the distance. You rest - enough to recover a bit - but it's a light, fitful sleep, never really deep and comfortable when you're out of civilization. (This also helps make waking up and being ready in the event of an ambush more plausible) If you want to concentrate on a spell over night, feel free. Maybe concentrating on Hunter's Mark means you dream about your quarry, imagine their face when you deliver the killing blow, think about where they might have gone, rehearse their fate in your head at night. And if something drops you unconscious, you can still lose the spell - that's the deep black numbness of oblivion, not the light, active concern of a sleep out in the hinterlands. [/QUOTE]

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