Does your party suffer from insomnia?

Chow

Let's see if this is a familiar scenario to anyone else or if it's just me. My party is on the verge of death, with even their toughest and meanest front line fighters in single-digit hit points. All healing potions have been used long ago, and there are no cure spells left. Everyone complains about fatigue, what with having traveled for days and gotten Hasted. Do I sleep?

What, you kidding? My wizard still has a fireball, I've got both my kais to use, the thief has like three traps to set, and the cleric hasn't animated dead or found use to all her protective spells! All those things will go to waste if I sleep now! I must go on until it's absolutely necessary to rest.

It would honestly make my game a lot easier if I did sleep, but I'm just stubborn.

GoodSteve

No, I do not suffer from this. Perhaps if all my abilities wouldn't come back if I rested, sure I might decide to continue on, but that's not the case.

It's much easier to get your fireball spells back (like you do when you rest) than it is to get your frontliners rezzed because you decided to attack Aec'letec with 3 HP left.

Madhax

I tend to push until I can't push on any more, yeah. I wouldn't walk into an obvious trap like the Aec'letec fight, though.

BlackIvory

yeah I must confesse I am the same. Didn't used to be like that.
Generally when travelling if they are fatigued i would let them rest, but when doing a mission or a dungeon they could go for a loooong while without sleep, to the point I try to "waste" my spells even on small time pray :P

Pantalion

Sometimes, depends on my mood. If there's nothing wrong with a fatigued party member except that they haven't slept in 47 hours, then too bad, I don't remember the penalty for fatigue so it doesn't exist.

At the same time, sometimes my party will have a duvet day and just rest over and over again, typically when I've decided to stop and spam identify on everything I own.

rdarken

I push for a while, as well, but I do eventually rest. It comes down to HP for the most part, but sometimes I will just do it for the sake of resting. Earlier today, I rested because I was in Chapter 3 and I had only rested once lol

In high school, when a friend and I were really into BG, I remember him asking me how many hours my game was at. When I told him, he said something like "Ugh, you let your party REST?" So that's always in my mind and now my party suffers for it.

deltago

I rest only when the party is fatigued and the map I am currently on is cleared. I'll then travel to another map I haven't done yet and camp at the spawn point. (Pun intended)

BlackIvory

i just did Durlag's Tower
I think my party didnt rest for the entire 2 or 3 bottom levels. and they were hurting pretty bad :P
only rested once i got to the door before the end boss

DJKajuru

I try to do as much as I can and use all my spells and abilities without resting , specially in BG2 where I try to do more than one stronghold quest on the same day.

Severon

How do you even hit things when fatigued? If I recall, you get a -1 THAC0 for every 4 hours of fatigue.

Darkcloud

If you remember your shopping list of 5 things can you add 5 things to it without forgetting the first 5 just because you didn't buy the stuff you put on it in the beginning?

If you can manage 50 sit ups a day can you do 100 tomorrow if you don't do your 50 today?

Chow

Darkcloud said:

If you remember your shopping list of 5 things can you add 5 things to it without forgetting the first 5 just because you didn't buy the stuff you put on it in the beginning?

If you can manage 50 sit ups a day can you do 100 tomorrow if you don't do your 50 today?

Probably not on both counts. So the shopping list memory and sit-ups are our real-life memorized spells, and we should get them over with today because they'll be wasted if we don't.

CoM_Solaufein

I'm a slave driver. I will sleep if there is a chapter change or something like that where you get the "dream" stuff or before a big battle knowing I need my mages to memorize their spells again.

dreambled

I really don't understand this. You do not lose anything sleeping except time, but unless you have a character trying to get you to go somewhere that doesn't mean anything. You do gain free healing and you replenish all the spells you have used, and maybe even learned more if your spellcasters leveled during that time. That isn't a waste in my eyes, that's an advantage.

I can kind of see where you think it's a waste if you still have other spells and things you have not used, but honestly, it doesn't sound smart to me. If you have not run into enemies worth using the spell on then it's not a waste if it wasn't going to be used anyway, and regardless of if you have used it or not, you will still have it after you sleep. Further more, without knowing what kind of fight you're going to get into, having a fatigued and bloodied party can be a high risk.

Lythunyl

Of course not. I'm sure they're sleeping somewhere along the way when they're journeying between maps, right?

Selaboc

for BG, not so much. But in BGII I tend to be a bit of a slave driver, resting only when absolutely neccessary until Imoen is rescued. But that's more of a RP issue, as I can't invision CHARNAME wasting too much time while sis is rotting in spellhold.