Less Sleep limitation: mental activity only?

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

PU6-Quirks:24.

Hmm. Didn't think of it as meditation. It was supposed to be part of a technological package similar to a cabal.

Introspective self study, extreme concentration, and separation from the base mundane realities sound like most of the realistic to me aspects of meditation.

Ah, Quirks is one I don't have... yet.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

I'm divided here. On one hand, I want to say that sense rolls are mental and thus should be unpenalised (exception: opening one's eyes is a physical action). On the other, I wonder if the distraction in doing some stuff is too similar to the penalty to senses while asleep.

There's already no penalty to the IQ roll to wake up from a disturbance. I'm not seeing any penalties to Per rolls to detect the disturbance in the first place, either, except of course for the obvious lack of Vision with closed eyes.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

There's already no penalty to the IQ roll to wake up from a disturbance. I'm not seeing any penalties to Per rolls to detect the disturbance in the first place, either, except of course for the obvious lack of Vision with closed eyes.

I might suggest that what would require a sleeping person's unmodified sense roll would be automatically successful or at least at +10 "in plain sight" for the awake. Assuming senses other than vision unless you literally sleep with your eyes open, which some people and pets do. Creepy to see though.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I might suggest that what would require a sleeping person's unmodified sense roll would be automatically successful or at least at +10 "in plain sight" for the awake.

There's no such modifier for Hearing, which is mostly the relevant sense.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

There's no such modifier for Hearing, which is mostly the relevant sense.

It's a GM's prerogative to decide when and for what rolls are warranted.
There are many levels of alertness, and deep sleep is of course the deepest not during coma/unconsciousness.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

It's a GM's prerogative to decide when and for what rolls are warranted.

I'm talking about the rules. There is such thing as "in plain sight" for Hearing.