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Maybe some sort of risk/reward table for short rests; you can recharge a portion of your SR pool or heal some HP in proportional ranges from 10m to 1 hr, but 1 HR recharges all of it, but the longer the rest, the higher the rate of risk of a complication arising (perhaps longer SRs add dice to...

Huh, I would have thought that because before you said most people didn't have a lunch hour, you'd be fine with the 30 min SR which is the standard lunch break for my contractors. They also get 15 min snack/coffee breaks every couple hours, so that lends itself to a 15/15/30/15/15 set up for...

FYI -- I also don't love full recovery on a long rest, and plan to provide this feedback to WotC on the survey. I think it would be nice to have a third category of rest -- Extended Downtime -- built into the game as a core rule assumption, rather than as something in the DMG. And I DO use them...

EDITED: Split out into separate post because I was editing it into the post when @Ruin Explorer liked the original post without this additional response, and I want to clearly delineate these as two separate subposts of the same overarching thread, which may or may not have the same reaction. I...

Funnily enough, I don't think 4e was that gamist. Yes, it tried to outright balance the classes with similar amounts of AED-recharging powers/class features and give everyone choices of Utility powers/class features as well, but the books spent a similar amount of time looking at other pillars...

I know I'm not the only one here who has espoused a preference for 1-hour short rests. Not going to dig back through 26 pages of this thread and all the other threads that have touched on this to find and cite the others who have seemed to support it. I also think they can speak well enough for...

This thread alone show how important it is for WotC to thread the needle between people who want Short Rests to die a fiery death, people who want Long Rests to die a fiery death, people who want Vancian recharge mechanics to die a fiery death, people who want one or multiple or all of these...

Ummm… I think we have different goals in mind. :0 To that end though -- it is IN the game. It's something we can use, and they thought about it enough to include it. It's just if we want to fix the balance of characters' major abilities recharge times and stave off situations where some players...

I'll be greatly surprised and very very happy if so. I wouldn't be surprised if they had 3 alternate plans each for Goliaths and Ardlings in December 2022: If over 70% of respondents like the species as part of the PHB, include in 2024 PHB. If over 70% of respondents like the species, but...

Emberashh, you have just changed my game for the better. I didn't know about Tension Dice, or AngryGM at all. Thank you, thank you!

They already did… what were Per-Day features are now Per-Long-Rest. There are optional plug-in guidances in the Core Rules and Rules Expansions for changing up what as Long Rest means. It may not be outright stated, but you could easily redefine the time-lengths of rests based on the game-play...

One could easily imagine those sorts of quests working if say, the Witch of Winter had transformed the entire Nentir Vale into a Domain of Dread (or a Winter Court/Gloaming Court Fey Domain of Delight; I don't recall the thematic underpinnings of the adventure and it's not particularly...

If it's in the DMG, it's not as popular an option for Players and it's not what the game is balanced around, though. It's an optional plug-in, and the PHB is the base-game.

Honestly, I like the Ardling a lot, but not for a PHB. I kinda wish it was being stealth-playtested for Planescape, in the same way the Owlin, Hobgoblin, and Kobold were stealth-playtested for MP:MotM alongside UAs for WBtW and FTD. I would love Ardling to appear alongside the Glitchling, the...

Yeah, Spell Points might be an answer if we wanted to get rid of LR recharges entirely. I just don't think D&D will abandon Vancian Magic for Spell Points as a default.

Fine. You miss out on Archery / Interception fighting styles, then, but gain 2 cantrips. I.e., Blessed Warrior and Druidic Warrior Fighting Styles.

I'm not sure I love the idea of 9th level spell slots recharging on short rest, though. I think there's a role for long rests and very long rests (extended downtime), but it all needs to be very very carefully balanced. I think some guidance in the DMG of # of Encounters / Short Rest, # Short...

Right, hence why short rests exist at all… Just because the game is broken in favour of 5MWD doesn’t mean you get rid of the incentives to not 5MWD… I’ve been so frustrated by the push to replace X per Short Rest features with Proficiency Bonus per Long Rest features… this packet actually...

That’s the 5MWD. Some players feel entitled to it, and are angry when the DM doesn’t let them go back to sleep after nova’ing all their spells in one encounter. Far more problematic than short rests is the urge to long rest between every encounter.

Huh. I’ve had far more short rests than long rests in my games, because my players were use to short rests between encounters from when we played 4e. AEDU and all. Just made sense.