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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 7085096" data-attributes="member: 6787503">It's very simple. You can hear things in your sleep. All your senses gather information about your environment when you're asleep. But you aren't aware of those things in the game-sense that you notice, detect, or perceive them. To do so, you would need not only to sense them but to do so consciously. DMG, p 248 says it perfectly. Sleep is a state &quot;that lacks consciousness&quot;. Things you sense without consciousness can still wake you up. The DM determines when. I always tell my players the types of circumstances that will result in a creature waking up. It's a short, non-comprehensive list of things which I posted up-thread to which I'd add those things described in the sleep spell as ending magical slumber. It's non-comprehensive because there are always situations that require DM adjudication, but it gives a player a good idea of what sort of things will reliably awaken a sleeping creature.Also, I take issue with your statement that I have creatures wake up &quot;prior to hostilities&quot;. I've consistently stated that sleeping creatures in my games wake up simultaneously with the start of combat, not before, but you and others continue to act as if I've said that something wakes them up before anything has happened. This is not true. In my games, the start of combat is generally a noticeable event.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 7085096, member: 6787503"] It's very simple. You can hear things in your sleep. All your senses gather information about your environment when you're asleep. But you aren't aware of those things in the game-sense that you notice, detect, or perceive them. To do so, you would need not only to sense them but to do so consciously. DMG, p 248 says it perfectly. Sleep is a state "that lacks consciousness". Things you sense without consciousness can still wake you up. The DM determines when. I always tell my players the types of circumstances that will result in a creature waking up. It's a short, non-comprehensive list of things which I posted up-thread to which I'd add those things described in the sleep spell as ending magical slumber. It's non-comprehensive because there are always situations that require DM adjudication, but it gives a player a good idea of what sort of things will reliably awaken a sleeping creature. Also, I take issue with your statement that I have creatures wake up "prior to hostilities". I've consistently stated that sleeping creatures in my games wake up simultaneously with the start of combat, not before, but you and others continue to act as if I've said that something wakes them up before anything has happened. This is not true. In my games, the start of combat is generally a noticeable event. [/QUOTE]

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