Limits on fatigue recovery
 

Wake up your ST 6 Goblin every hour and a half and over 24 hours she'll rest up 90+ fatigue and hence recharge 18 Mana.

My current fix is that no figure can recover more than three times their base ST in fatigue in a 24 hour span. Run them more than that and they'll collapse until they can rest up.

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Seems reasonable.

Re: Limits on fatigue recovery
 

While not RAW, I would rule that this constitutes lack of sleep and require 1d damage per 24 hours without at least 6 hours (or even 8) of uninterrupted sleep - See Woodsman Talent, pg 41

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I made a talent for this a while back...

Multiphasic sleep is a thing in the real world so paying for a talent should be enough to justify it. Costs 1 talent point for wizards.

Re: Limits on fatigue recovery
 

1d damage is pretty extreme. The Woodsman talent mentions only 1 hit from a combination of all the bad things that come with being lost in the woods (exposure, lost sleep, bad food, etc.) Additional hits are taken for more extreme environments.

Even so, with a requirement of say 6 hours of sleep, Henry's Goblin would recover 70+ points during the other 18. Then gets his required sleep, and he's ready to do it again the next day.

So I agree with Henry's recovery limit.

Separately, I think TFT could use a little more fleshing out of Fatigue and non-lethal hazards (like lack of sleep.) Lack of sleep should cause fatigue, not a hit. And I'd rule any fatigue taken from a non-lethal source besides spellcasting prevents recovery of any fatigue (or at least require a ST roll with a penalty based on the character's current fatigue) until the source of the fatigue is addressed (like, getting some sleep.)

Edit: There probably should also be additional rules for lethal hazards as well, like environments with extreme cold/heat, radiation, etc.

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Whether lack of sleep causes fatigue or damage doesn't seem to matter too much. In either case, it takes a good night's sleep to get it back, not fifteen minutes or two days.

The reason that lack of sleep causes damage in the rules is that it's mentioned in the context of sleeping hard, with lack of food or bad food being other reasons for the loss (Woodsman talent, ITL 41). Both of those should cause damage and we don't really distinguish between the causes when a woodsman isn't available.

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I just say you can't recover from fatigue while sleep deprived or starving.

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I have a sort of sub-system of house rules for fatigue damage and recovery that uses a scale of levels of deprivation/hardship. The short version:

Able to rest and drink; recently fed; no environmental stresses: Fatigue recovery possible

Any one condition above not met: no fatigue recovery possible.

Lack of water: 1 pt fatigue damage per 'march' (3 hours)

Lack of food: 1 pt fatigue damage per day

Light environmental stress (heat, cold): 1 pt fatigue damage per day

Intense environmental stress: 1 pt per 'march'

Life-threatening stress: 1 pt per turn

An act of extreme exertion: 1 point

You could sub divide more than this, but I've liked it.

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So everybody is happy with a goblin witch of ST 6 and DX 9 recharging a 14 point powerstone, 14 point mana, or 14 die missile rod every day by sleeping for six hours, taking 30 minutes to eat (and etc) and resting the other 17 and one half hours?

Re: Limits on fatigue recovery
 

Hey, I already noted the still remaining issue and gave you my vote :)