D&D 5E The monsters recover HP with long or short rest ?
TarionzCousin
Second Most Angelic Devil Ever
I'm glad we can now move on and consider other important things, like whether clones have belly buttons.
clearstream
(He, Him)
Thread necro FTW...
PHB 186 "Adventurers can take short rests in the midst of an adventuring day and a long rest to end the day."
PHB 313 "adventurer. See character"
DMG 89 "A nonplayer character is any character controlled by the Dungeon Master. NPCs can be enemies or allies, regular folk or named monsters."
I argue that the word "Adventurers..." on the PHB 186 line is synonymous with "characters", which per DMG 89 includes any named monster. Such wording must exclude non-named monsters else mentioning "named" would lack explanation.
Therefore named monsters can recover using the same resting rules as players. Monsters that aren't named don't recover that way. I don't know how they recover, but speak here only to what the rules appear to allow. As a DM, I would assume that adventurer-rate recovery is an advantage, and therefore the background campaign world recovery is slower than that.
PHB 186 "Adventurers can take short rests in the midst of an adventuring day and a long rest to end the day."
PHB 313 "adventurer. See character"
DMG 89 "A nonplayer character is any character controlled by the Dungeon Master. NPCs can be enemies or allies, regular folk or named monsters."
I argue that the word "Adventurers..." on the PHB 186 line is synonymous with "characters", which per DMG 89 includes any named monster. Such wording must exclude non-named monsters else mentioning "named" would lack explanation.
Therefore named monsters can recover using the same resting rules as players. Monsters that aren't named don't recover that way. I don't know how they recover, but speak here only to what the rules appear to allow. As a DM, I would assume that adventurer-rate recovery is an advantage, and therefore the background campaign world recovery is slower than that.
Warmaster Horus
Explorer
Unless mentioned otherwise, creatures heal per the rules in my game.
As a general rule in my games, not necessarily RAW, "names" recover as PCs and "extras" half that at most.
Exceptions would include organized groups where having the injured sent for healing and treatment would be an exceptional feature spotlighting their organized trait.
Exceptions would be chaotic or beastial groups where the weak likely either do not get any recovery or get killed for their stuff (and maybe as food) by their "comrades."
Exceptions would be creatures in very unfavorable circumstances where disease, predators, and other environmental elements may make it unlikely for non-named to get any healing and again bring survival itself into question.
Exceptions would be for creatures in very favorable circumstances such as unhallowed places or other such synergies where recoveries would be much faster and fuller.
So, in essense the rules i use tend to focus on a very general rule making the name/extra or boss/minion show different results and then a set of very specific ways to use this to spotlight key features as well.
Sometimes the players can exploit these things and sometimes it works against them. So that means figuring out which is which and acting accordingly is quite appropriate. Hit and run and recover regroup might be great in a swamp with predators and diseases against a large tribe of disorganized foes. But trying that in an undead infested shrine which keeps spawning more and more powerful energies... better to get in get it done and stop it quickly.
Some might consider this RAF.
I just consider it - being a GM.
Exceptions would include organized groups where having the injured sent for healing and treatment would be an exceptional feature spotlighting their organized trait.
Exceptions would be chaotic or beastial groups where the weak likely either do not get any recovery or get killed for their stuff (and maybe as food) by their "comrades."
Exceptions would be creatures in very unfavorable circumstances where disease, predators, and other environmental elements may make it unlikely for non-named to get any healing and again bring survival itself into question.
Exceptions would be for creatures in very favorable circumstances such as unhallowed places or other such synergies where recoveries would be much faster and fuller.
So, in essense the rules i use tend to focus on a very general rule making the name/extra or boss/minion show different results and then a set of very specific ways to use this to spotlight key features as well.
Sometimes the players can exploit these things and sometimes it works against them. So that means figuring out which is which and acting accordingly is quite appropriate. Hit and run and recover regroup might be great in a swamp with predators and diseases against a large tribe of disorganized foes. But trying that in an undead infested shrine which keeps spawning more and more powerful energies... better to get in get it done and stop it quickly.
Some might consider this RAF.
I just consider it - being a GM.
ad_hoc
(they/them)
If this was an action movie what would make the most sense to you?
clearstream
(He, Him)
Yes, I very much feel that something along the lines you're using is implied by the RAW.
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