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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5943931" data-attributes="member: 42582">Isn't this 4e psionics, more-or-less?Agreed. And at least for the PCs in my game, the mitigation is there (ie the encounter powers aren't just the at-will powers with bigger numbers - though the archer ranger comes closest to this).It's presumably a bigger issue for Essentials martial PCs, whose enounter powers are just damage boosts.In my ordinary, white-collar life I have gone through periods where I have been averaging quite a bit less than 8 hours rest per 24 hours for days at a time. I think that soldiers in battle frequently get less sleep than that.But anyway, even if sleep is hard-coded, the encounter balance around it is not. There is nothing stopping the GM making more encounters available in a day than a typical set of daily resources can deal with. And in fact this is fairly common (eg most D&amp;D dungeon modules are like this). At which point the issue becomes not too little sleep per 24 hours, but too much (ie the 15 minute day).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5943931, member: 42582"] Isn't this 4e psionics, more-or-less? Agreed. And at least for the PCs in my game, the mitigation is there (ie the encounter powers aren't just the at-will powers with bigger numbers - though the archer ranger comes closest to this). It's presumably a bigger issue for Essentials martial PCs, whose enounter powers [I]are[/I] just damage boosts. In my ordinary, white-collar life I have gone through periods where I have been averaging quite a bit less than 8 hours rest per 24 hours for days at a time. I think that soldiers in battle frequently get less sleep than that. But anyway, even if sleep is hard-coded, the encounter balance around it is not. There is nothing stopping the GM making more encounters available in a day than a typical set of daily resources can deal with. And in fact this is fairly common (eg most D&D dungeon modules are like this). At which point the issue becomes not too little sleep per 24 hours, but too much (ie the 15 minute day). [/QUOTE]

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