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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delemental" data-source="post: 1025437" data-attributes="member: 5203">Okay, this might be a bit of a stretch, but here goes...Looking at the ring's entry, it operates at a caster level of 5, with a prereq of create food and water.  Looking at that spell, it creates enough food for 3 humans per caster level.  So at caster level 5, you get 15 man-days of food.Now, this just covers eating.  It is safe to assume that to cover the "2 hours sleep" function, roughly half the ring's power must go into that.  Fifteen divided by 2 is 7.5; rounding down (since this is d20 and all fractions are dropped) you get 7 man-days, or a standard week.The reason that the ring of sustenance takes a week to start working is that it releases it's magical power in one-week intervals, a "burst" of energy that sustains the wearer for the next 7 days.  The ring was deliberately designed not to release its first energy burst until it had been worn for a week.  It's a safety feature; if someone put the ring on, then took it off, then put it back on, they'd get two 'doses', which would overload their system and kill them.The flaw in this interpretation is that technically someone could wear the ring a week, get their "burst", then remove the ring and still have the benefits for a week.  This would allow sharing the ring, but it wouldn't be very efficient:Day 1: Adam puts on ring of sustenanceDay 8: Adam receives benefits of ring for 7 days, gives it to BobDay 15: Bob receives benefits for 7 days, gives ring back to Adam (who has just lost benefits of ring)Day 22: Adam receives another dose of ring's power, returns ring to Bob (who just lost his benefits)So at worst, you'd have two characters getting the benefit of the ring every other week - adding more people just extends the amount of time you need to eat and sleep normally.</blockquote>

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