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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 4693863" data-attributes="member: 1008">In my 4E game, there are no penalties for sleep in armour (except perhaps social ones) and I allow armour to be donned hurriedly, at a penalty to AC equal to the armour check penatly. I allow this any time that PCs have at least some time between the moment they learn they need to enter combat and the time when they actually roll for initiative.Even in a more realistic game, I would not generally penalise someone for sleeping in armour -- soldiers learn to catch what rest they can, when they can, even in terrible conditions. I personally have managed to get a decent (if short) night's sleep curled in a large pot-hole, wedged between rocks and in a tiny sleeping bay dug into the side of a rifle pit. A seasoned adventurer will learn to cope with the same and worse.Sure, they'll rejoice when they have the chance to doff their armour and make use of a feather bed, but when you're marching through the wilderness from dawn to dusk, with a bit of mortal combat thrown in over the course of the day, the only thing that might keep you awake is fear, nervousness, adrenaline or the pain from your punctured lung -- not the lack of silk sheets and some comfy bed socks.</blockquote>