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<blockquote data-quote="Mepher" data-source="post: 7955783" data-attributes="member: 61277">That has to be one of the dumbest rules in the book by far.&nbsp; I challenge you to run 1 hour of combat.&nbsp; It just doesn't happen and no party would have enough abilities to withstand an hour of combat unless they seriously overpowered it and didn't have to use any of their limited abilities.&nbsp; Your 5 round combat took 30 seconds.Lets look at it realistically though.&nbsp; You make camp, you fall asleep.&nbsp; 2 hours into your sleep a group of Orcs start surrounding your camp.&nbsp; The watch sees them and calls the alarm.&nbsp; You jump out of your sleep, adrenaline pumping and you grab your sword to prepare for battle.&nbsp; That 30-40 second battle concludes.&nbsp; It's not as if your immediately asleep.&nbsp; You just killed those orcs.&nbsp; At this point you probably want to get the corpses out of the middle of the camp, you want to scout around the area and make sure there are no more enemies, might need to heal people, fix the camp, etc.By the time you get back down to rest I would say at LEAST and hour has gone by.&nbsp; I don't take that rule literally, it just doesn't make sense.&nbsp; If you get interrupted during your long rest with combat, an hour or more is gone before everything is resolved imo.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mepher, post: 7955783, member: 61277"] That has to be one of the dumbest rules in the book by far. I challenge you to run 1 hour of combat. It just doesn't happen and no party would have enough abilities to withstand an hour of combat unless they seriously overpowered it and didn't have to use any of their limited abilities. Your 5 round combat took 30 seconds. Lets look at it realistically though. You make camp, you fall asleep. 2 hours into your sleep a group of Orcs start surrounding your camp. The watch sees them and calls the alarm. You jump out of your sleep, adrenaline pumping and you grab your sword to prepare for battle. That 30-40 second battle concludes. It's not as if your immediately asleep. You just killed those orcs. At this point you probably want to get the corpses out of the middle of the camp, you want to scout around the area and make sure there are no more enemies, might need to heal people, fix the camp, etc. By the time you get back down to rest I would say at LEAST and hour has gone by. I don't take that rule literally, it just doesn't make sense. If you get interrupted during your long rest with combat, an hour or more is gone before everything is resolved imo. [/QUOTE]

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