D&D 5E Can you concentrate on a spell while resting?

[keterys]

Wait, what? Is this really the case?

No, that's just hyperbole. The only characters that use disengage aggressively are rogues who use it (via Cunning Action) to spring attack across short distances or to get past a front line to a back line caster.

Which are all appropriate and reasonable uses. The action cost makes it not useful to everyone else for that purpose. That and opportunity attacks really aren't that strong.

 

[Paraxis]

No, that's just hyperbole. The only characters that use disengage aggressively are rogues who use it (via Cunning Action) to spring attack across short distances or to get past a front line to a back line caster.

Which are all appropriate and reasonable uses. The action cost makes it not useful to everyone else for that purpose. That and opportunity attacks really aren't that strong.

Well rogues are the best at using disengage effectively for charging because of cunning action others still use it in aggressive ways. Disengage works wonderfully for breaking through defensive lines of mooks to get to the boss/caster in the back, since it makes you immune to all attacks of opportunity for the turn.

 

[GSHamster]

If you hold a concentration spell through a rest, and your class recovers spell slots after that rest, do you recover that slot after the rest?

I.e. You have 5 spell slots. You burn one on Concentration Spell A, leaving you with 4. Still concentrating on Spell A, you take a rest. Do you have 4 or 5 spell slots free after the rest?

 

[Zaukrie]

I would rule 4.

 

[brehobit]

I would rule 4.

I'd go with 5

 

[dco]

During a rest you can't do anything more strenuous than eating, drinking, reading, talking or tending wounds, casting spells is considered strenous in the long rest rules. In my opinion you can't concentrate or cast spells during a rest.
This is fluff but:
"They need rest-time to sleep and eat, tend their wounds, refresh their minds and spirits for spellcasting..."
I can't see how someone would do this while he was concentrating.

If you hold a concentration spell through a rest, and your class recovers spell slots after that rest, do you recover that slot after the rest?

I.e. You have 5 spell slots. You burn one on Concentration Spell A, leaving you with 4. Still concentrating on Spell A, you take a rest. Do you have 4 or 5 spell slots free after the rest?

I would say 4, but I would also say you can't concentrate if you take a rest, is relaxation time, it involves physical and mental activity.

 

[Zaukrie]

Btw, I think a DM ruling either way can make sense.

 

[Chocolategravy]

No, that's just hyperbole. The only characters that use disengage aggressively are rogues who use it (via Cunning Action) to spring attack across short distances or to get past a front line to a back line caster. Which are all appropriate and reasonable uses. The action cost makes it not useful to everyone else for that purpose. That and opportunity attacks really aren't that strong.

You've proved my point. You just said yourself rogues use it for exactly what I said. Who else uses it much if at all? No one. I've literally never seen it used for anything but to charge in because it isn't worth using otherwise.

 

[Joe Liker]

If you hold a concentration spell through a rest, and your class recovers spell slots after that rest, do you recover that slot after the rest?

I.e. You have 5 spell slots. You burn one on Concentration Spell A, leaving you with 4. Still concentrating on Spell A, you take a rest. Do you have 4 or 5 spell slots free after the rest?

The slot is used up when you cast the spell, not when its duration expires. Concentration has nothing to do with it.

 

[Joe Liker]

You've proved my point. You just said yourself rogues use it for exactly what I said. Who else uses it much if at all? No one. I've literally never seen it used for anything but to charge in because it isn't worth using otherwise.

Then I assume you've never seen a wizard who is low on spell slots and in melee range of an ogre.