D&D (2024) Overthinking Long Rest in 2024

[Zardnaar]

Starbucks seems to be doing just fine in Auckland.

That's Auckland though coffee isn't great there. That's Wellington.

Australia Starbucks bombed. Iirc they closed a bunch of stores. Our coffee tradition is Australian btw.

 

[mikeburke]

That's Auckland though coffee isn't great there. That's Wellington.

Australia Starbucks bombed. Iirc they closed a bunch of stores. Our coffee tradition is Australian btw.

And Australia’s coffee tradition is Italian, though I guess inventing the flat white is enough to claim your own identity. I’m an Aussie-born American who lived 5 years in Seattle and goes back there regularly. Seattle has its own coffee culture of which Starbucks is some kind of weird mutated export. My sense is they are now entering a very slow decline, but they’re undeniably massive and mediocre.

Here we are getting into subjectivity again. First D&D, then beer, now coffee.

 

[Krachek]

IRL the long rest would be a miracle!
One rest to go back at full hit point, a week to overcome any level of exhaustion, bring me long rest.!

 

[Mistwell]

Didn't do well in Australia. Or here. Pointless, expensive and crap.

There are 37 Starbucks in New Zealand, and more than 70 in Australia.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

First for the original question, yeah it seems way they phrased it in 2024e seems silly to me. 2014e said "A character can’t benefit from more than one long rest in a 24-hour period." Where they worried that players would players would say the rest before the fight was one 24 hour period and they are starting a new 24 period right after the fight?

Personally I'd rather just say 1 per day. This is the sort of thing GMs are for.

Now for off topic meanderings:

Try not to go adventuring on Jupiter (10 hour days).

With the crushing gravity and lack of oxygen, I think the 10 hour days is pretty far down on the reasons not to adventure on Jupiter.

There are 37 Starbucks in New Zealand, and more than 70 in Australia.

Which is great by most business standards, but not compared to Starbucks in the US. Most US states and even some cities have more Starbucks than New Zealand and Australia combined. California has close to 3,000 Starbucks. Source.

 

[the Jester]

And Australia’s coffee tradition is Italian, though I guess inventing the flat white is enough to claim your own identity.

What is a flat white? I've never heard the term used except when describing colors.

 

[mikeburke]

Basically a latte with a higher ratio of coffee to milk, and less of a 'froth head'. I guess that's where the "flat" comes from. You can ask for one in Starbucks these days, so I guess we are approaching some kind of coffee singularity.

 

[the Jester]

Basically a latte with a higher ratio of coffee to milk, and less of a 'froth head'. I guess that's where the "flat" comes from. You can ask for one in Starbucks these days, so I guess we are approaching some kind of coffee singularity.

Thanks, TIL!

 

[Zardnaar]

There are 37 Starbucks in New Zealand, and more than 70 in Australia.

Context our gas stations serve barista coffee. And they're better than Starbucks.

You can be driving down the road and there's a caravan set up and someones running a coffee stand side of the road. Probably near an honesty box.

If you're after a basic coffee there's not much point going to Starbucks.

 

[Zardnaar]

Basically a latte with a higher ratio of coffee to milk, and less of a 'froth head'. I guess that's where the "flat" comes from. You can ask for one in Starbucks these days, so I guess we are approaching some kind of coffee singularity.

Starbucks sent staff to Australia to train them in flat whites.

Double shots standard here our double shots are 4 American ones.