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Karaden
post Dec 19 2007, 09:16 PM
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I was just reading through the book a bit, and noticed that there are several mentions of taking penelties of some kind, but these penelties are never actually mentioned directly.

Is it that each day that a character goes without sleep he takes 1 point of stun damage as per the fatigue rules, thus allowing the average person to go 7 days without sleep if forced to (Which is actually fairly accurate as to the max a person can go without sleep, though they'll be halusinating and such)

And since sleep regulator says "...and stay awake for 48 hours before modifiers start to take effect." does that mean someone with a sleep regulator could stay awake 14 days before dropping?

I know this doesn't usually come up, it is assumed characters sleep at some point and everyone is happy, but I'm sure there are times when you really can't sleep. Maybe you have a timed cortex bomb and you need to do stuff before it goes off, or maybe your on your own and can't risk getting caught in your sleep, or any other number of possible reasons.

So, in these cercumstances what sort of 'modifiers' should be applied? 1s damage every day just seems like far too little, I'd rarely have my sleep regulated character sleep more often then once every 6 or so days just because of how efficent it would make him at extended tasks like programing.

Personally I think a -1 or -2 dice pool modifier should be applied to all skills for each day that you go without sleep. What does everyone else think about this?
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- Karaden   Catching the Zs   Dec 19 2007, 09:16 PM
- - Konsaki   A standard RL human starts gaining reaction losses...   Dec 19 2007, 09:28 PM
- - Kyoto Kid   ...once stayed awake in RL for an entire 54 hour c...   Dec 19 2007, 09:49 PM
- - Zak   Yea it sucks. The most annoying thing is that you ...   Dec 19 2007, 10:00 PM
- - Karaden   I don't know, that seems a little -too- harsh ...   Dec 19 2007, 10:01 PM
- - Konsaki   QUOTE (Karaden) I don't know, that seems a lit...   Dec 19 2007, 10:12 PM
- - Fortune   Well, I found this under the entry for Long Haul ....   Dec 19 2007, 10:25 PM
- - Karaden   Yes, that is the one that led me to believe it was...   Dec 19 2007, 10:44 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   Everyone is messing the best medically factual eff...   Dec 19 2007, 10:55 PM
- - Konsaki   QUOTE (Wounded Ronin) Everyone is messing the best...   Dec 19 2007, 10:58 PM
- - Kyoto Kid   ...yeah that happened during those long stretches ...   Dec 19 2007, 11:15 PM
- - Stahlseele   one of you ever had the "pleasure" of ha...   Dec 19 2007, 11:31 PM
- - Konsaki   QUOTE (Stahlseele) one of you ever had the "p...   Dec 19 2007, 11:34 PM
- - Stahlseele   right now? yeah, pretty good actually . . aside f...   Dec 19 2007, 11:37 PM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Stahlseele) one of you ever had the "p...   Dec 19 2007, 11:55 PM
- - Stahlseele   whatever the definition of normal is concerning yo...   Dec 20 2007, 10:23 AM
- - Ustio   I got a case of caffeine poisoning at Game 07 here...   Dec 20 2007, 10:33 AM
- - Jack Kain   Late night gaming secessions have taught be that g...   Dec 20 2007, 11:05 AM
- - Stahlseele   and the hope that nobody will remember whatever ha...   Dec 20 2007, 11:08 AM
- - deek   Funny...we just had this in our last session. I t...   Dec 20 2007, 01:22 PM
- - GryMor   I did around 80 hours once in college, with the la...   Dec 20 2007, 03:47 PM
- - deek   So we really need to discuss the dissimilarities b...   Dec 20 2007, 04:28 PM
- - Karaden   QUOTE (deek) So we really need to discuss the diss...   Dec 20 2007, 05:37 PM
- - Moon-Hawk   QUOTE (deek) So we really need to discuss the diss...   Dec 20 2007, 05:59 PM
- - deek   Hehe...my bad...I SHOULD know better! I still...   Dec 20 2007, 06:14 PM
- - Konsaki   QUOTE (GryMor) I did around 80 hours once in colle...   Dec 20 2007, 06:51 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   QUOTE (deek) So we really need to discuss the diss...   Dec 20 2007, 06:55 PM
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