Chi Power Limitation: Rituals = Missed Sleep?

[Joe]

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

And, uh, 12 hours of sleep? What sorts of disadvantages did your entire party agree to take there?

Note the part in three watches. If your goal is to get a full 8 hours of sleep for everyone in the group, without exception, and you still want to post watches, then the whole group has to rest for more than 8 hours, so that those watching can have time for sleep.

I suspect the three watches he's thinking of run something like this:

Watch 1: Character A watches for 4 hours. Characters B and C sleep.
Watch 2: Character B watches for 4 hours. Characters A and C sleep.
Watch 3: Character C watches for 4 hours. Character A and B sleep.

Or similar. Larger parties have more options. In any case, using this kind of method, everyone gets 8 hours, and someone is on watch the whole time. (In passing: I'd hate to be character B in this example: it sucks to be the one to have interrupted, rather than continuous, sleep).

Ok, that's quite enough derailing from me. I'm enjoying the discussion of Ritualism and its effects - please continue!