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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9297253" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>I've watched enough movies with commando types improvising weapons and traps as well as capturing enemy weapons that being able to scrounge up ammo in the wilderness doesn't bother me. And well, many spell components are things you can find laying around anyways, plus I figure, there are probably alternatives that one can use in a pinch.</p><p></p><p>As for being generous about resting, my experience has been that if the party needs to rest, making them do without doesn't make the game any more fun. Sure, watching the players try and avoid and run from danger from time to time can be fun, but a lot of time there's a rock and a hard place, and no real way to go.</p><p></p><p>The only reason I have rules for interruptions at all is on the off chance the players want to try for a five minute workday or something equally silly, but I don't anticipate that happening. It hasn't in the current game, and these will be the people I'm running for.</p><p></p><p>When running a game with a good mix of exploration and combat, 5e's rest structure really breaks down. In my last session, my Wizard got hit by temporary amnesia and was rendered effectively useless by trying to read strange eldritch runes to solve a puzzle.</p><p></p><p>Given that all the enemies in our vicinity are deadly enough to need all hands on deck, we ended up having to hole up and rest without a single encounter so that I could recover!</p><p></p><p>I fully anticipate a lot of game days where not a lot happens, and the only reason you take a Long Rest at all is to avoid exhaustion. Not every hex on the map is going to have a single encounter, let alone 6-8, and there's a limit to how many of those you can cross in day anyways.</p><p></p><p>So I'm not really concerned about preventing people from taking rests due to time constraints for the most part. What I'm going for is more to get them thinking "hey, we need to cross 5 hexes. If there's no combat, that's 5 units of Supplies per character- more if we have to Short Rest. How are we going to do that, exactly?".</p><p></p><p>And it's not going to be hard to solve that problem, once they engage with it. Which I'm happy with, as long as they actually do engage with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 9297253, member: 6877472"] I've watched enough movies with commando types improvising weapons and traps as well as capturing enemy weapons that being able to scrounge up ammo in the wilderness doesn't bother me. And well, many spell components are things you can find laying around anyways, plus I figure, there are probably alternatives that one can use in a pinch. As for being generous about resting, my experience has been that if the party needs to rest, making them do without doesn't make the game any more fun. Sure, watching the players try and avoid and run from danger from time to time can be fun, but a lot of time there's a rock and a hard place, and no real way to go. The only reason I have rules for interruptions at all is on the off chance the players want to try for a five minute workday or something equally silly, but I don't anticipate that happening. It hasn't in the current game, and these will be the people I'm running for. When running a game with a good mix of exploration and combat, 5e's rest structure really breaks down. In my last session, my Wizard got hit by temporary amnesia and was rendered effectively useless by trying to read strange eldritch runes to solve a puzzle. Given that all the enemies in our vicinity are deadly enough to need all hands on deck, we ended up having to hole up and rest without a single encounter so that I could recover! I fully anticipate a lot of game days where not a lot happens, and the only reason you take a Long Rest at all is to avoid exhaustion. Not every hex on the map is going to have a single encounter, let alone 6-8, and there's a limit to how many of those you can cross in day anyways. So I'm not really concerned about preventing people from taking rests due to time constraints for the most part. What I'm going for is more to get them thinking "hey, we need to cross 5 hexes. If there's no combat, that's 5 units of Supplies per character- more if we have to Short Rest. How are we going to do that, exactly?". And it's not going to be hard to solve that problem, once they engage with it. Which I'm happy with, as long as they actually do engage with it. [/QUOTE]
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