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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7629227" data-attributes="member: 58172">[MENTION=82504]Garthanos[/MENTION]I am mulling three rest types.• sleep (8-hour long rest)• meal (1-hour short rest)• breather (15-minute brief rest)The breather matters because it is the standard unit of time to perform a magical ritual. (I like a 15-minute unit over 10, because there are about one hundred of them per day: 14 minutes and 24 seconds.) Also, 15-minute breather feels like a more useful time space to get something done. It is enough time to bandage wounds, explore a room, eat something on the run, regather ones wits, and so on.I am unsure what restorative benefit to assign to the pause. Short rest can spend hit dice, long rest refreshes all hit points and hit dice.Re 4e: an ‘action per breather’ can approximate an encounter power. And it comes with its own narrative explanation. The capability is exerting and requires one to catch ones breath before doing it (effectively) again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 7629227, member: 58172"] [MENTION=82504]Garthanos[/MENTION] I am mulling three rest types. • sleep (8-hour long rest) • meal (1-hour short rest) • breather (15-minute brief rest) The breather matters because it is the standard unit of time to perform a magical ritual. (I like a 15-minute unit over 10, because there are about one hundred of them per day: 14 minutes and 24 seconds.) Also, 15-minute breather feels like a more useful time space to get something done. It is enough time to bandage wounds, explore a room, eat something on the run, regather ones wits, and so on. I am unsure what restorative benefit to assign to the pause. Short rest can spend hit dice, long rest refreshes all hit points and hit dice. Re 4e: an ‘action per breather’ can approximate an encounter power. And it comes with its own narrative explanation. The capability is exerting and requires one to catch ones breath before doing it (effectively) again. [/QUOTE]

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