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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8390174" data-attributes="member: 23751">You're reading things into it to get to that conclusion.&nbsp; Sitting and staring at a night sky is downtime, but not light activity.&nbsp; Light activity is doing something active, but only lightly active.&nbsp; Reading, talking, eating, standing watch, playing poker, etc.&nbsp; Looking up is inactive, but not asleep, yet is still downtime.5e isn't 3e or 4e with rules for everything.&nbsp; It's not going to spell out each and every little thing that's downtime.&nbsp; Instead it expects that the players and DM can look at something as small as looking up, or being lost in thought and come to the correct conclusion that it is downtime, even if it isn't light activity.You don't, though.&nbsp; The one and only requirement for the length of sleep is that it be at least 6 hours.&nbsp; The other two hours can be anything up to and including light activity, or up to 59 minutes and 59 seconds of exertion + up to 01 second to 60 minutes and 1 second of light activity.&nbsp; Or it can be sleep. Heck, the rest can be 2 hours of light activity, 2 hours of staring at the stars, 59 minutes and 59 seconds of strenuous activity, and 6 hours of sleep, for a long rest total of 10 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds.5e is not prescriptive like that.&nbsp; It doesn't list everything that is light activity or exertion or non-activity that isn't sleep and is still downtime.&nbsp; It leaves that to the group.&nbsp; While there are things that are lightly active that aren't on the list, such as playing poker, shooting rubber bands at flies and typing on a keyboard about what light activity is, that doesn't mean that inactive things such as staring at the stars are not also downtime. They just didn't need to tell you that if you're inactive, but not asleep, that it's downtime.&nbsp; They were pretty sure you could figure that out on your own.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8390174, member: 23751"] You're reading things into it to get to that conclusion. Sitting and staring at a night sky is downtime, but not light activity. Light activity is doing something active, but only lightly active. Reading, talking, eating, standing watch, playing poker, etc. Looking up is inactive, but not asleep, yet is still downtime. 5e isn't 3e or 4e with rules for everything. It's not going to spell out each and every little thing that's downtime. Instead it expects that the players and DM can look at something as small as looking up, or being lost in thought and come to the correct conclusion that it is downtime, even if it isn't light activity. You don't, though. The one and only requirement for the length of sleep is that it be at least 6 hours. The other two hours can be anything up to and including light activity, or up to 59 minutes and 59 seconds of exertion + up to 01 second to 60 minutes and 1 second of light activity. Or it can be sleep. Heck, the rest can be 2 hours of light activity, 2 hours of staring at the stars, 59 minutes and 59 seconds of strenuous activity, and 6 hours of sleep, for a long rest total of 10 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds. 5e is not prescriptive like that. It doesn't list everything that is light activity or exertion or non-activity that isn't sleep and is still downtime. It leaves that to the group. While there are things that are lightly active that aren't on the list, such as playing poker, shooting rubber bands at flies and typing on a keyboard about what light activity is, that doesn't mean that inactive things such as staring at the stars are not also downtime. They just didn't need to tell you that if you're inactive, but not asleep, that it's downtime. They were pretty sure you could figure that out on your own. [/QUOTE]

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