So, do elves sleep or not?

[Banatine]

I've been looking through the core book for the last couple of days, trying to find out whether elves sleep or not.

I know they are immune to sleep effects, and that in 3.5, they would 'trance' (during which they were still partially aware of their surroundings) for 4 hours a night instead of sleeping for 8.

However, i can't find eny referance to this in the core book. So, can anyone give me a book/page referance to ANYTHING that clarifies this one way or the other?

Thanks in advance for answering my stupid question!

[meabolex]

If the rule isn't in the book, it doesn't apply anymore. (Usually.)

Elves in PF sleep like humans.

[Quatar]

I found this spell a few days ago on the PFSRD: Restlessness from a 3rd party book

The spell isn't the issue, but the Editor's Note below: Though this spell describes elves as not normally needing to sleep, this is not actually the case in the Rules as Written.

So I guess that in PF elves sleep normally

[LazarX]

Non-sleeping elves are a Tolkien artifact. So it depends on Tolkienesque you want your elves to be. Either way they still need some form of rest.

[Kyller Tiamatson]

Banatine wrote:

I've been looking through the core book for the last couple of days, trying to find out whether elves sleep or not.

I know they are immune to sleep effects, and that in 3.5, they would 'trance' (during which they were still partially aware of their surroundings) for 4 hours a night instead of sleeping for 8.

However, i can't find eny referance to this in the core book. So, can anyone give me a book/page referance to ANYTHING that clarifies this one way or the other?

Thanks in advance for answering my stupid question!

First, let me state that there are no stupid questions, just stupid guys too scare to make the question or stupid guys that would make fun of you for a question.

I have not found any "core" material for Pathfinder which would shed any light whereas elves sleep. My two cents: Elves do sleep, otherwise child-raising would be a miserable stage in an elf's life. In other words, I'd like to think that elves of "age" could choose not to sleep and trance instead with the same results. This ability would be less "racial" and more to do with diet and psychology. The immunity to sleep effects would be more associated to their early age magical studies, as they are more familiar to resist certain spells, in the "default" campaign your elves train to avoid sleep spells because they could be one of the most disastrous "non-damaging" spells. But, as a GM you could rule that the elves in your campaign could just develop an immunity to other spell "effect" like fear for example.

[Slaunyeh]

This is already being discussed here.

To sum up:
In Golarion: Yes they do. In Pathfinder: Up to you.

[markofbane]

Elves do sleep in Golarion (which dosen't quite mean Pathfinder, but pretty close).

James Jacobs on the subject.