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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 6811977" data-attributes="member: 20564">Fair question.  I'd treat this much like the optional Rest Variants on page 267 of the DMG.  There they have options like "long rest" is 7 days, so they are already divorcing sleeping from the mechanical recovery of a long rest.Rest Variant for 5e patterned on 13th Age <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Every 3 encounters the characters gain the advantage of a short rest.  The counter resets after every long rest, so it takes 3 more to have another short rest.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Every 8 encounters the character gain the advantage of a long rest.</li> </ul>The DM should count particularly tough encounters as 2 or more.  A rule of thumb is that a Hard encounter or one with other disadvantages for the party should be 2, and Deadly encounters or a Hard encounter with overwhelming disadvantage should count as 3, but this will vary by table.Note:  This doesn't count the "rest sooner but take a campaign setback" aspect of 13th Age because mechanical campaign setbacks are not a part of the 5e language.  But it means exactly as it sounds if you want to use that as well.This would have 8 Medium encounters being:  long rest, 1, 2, 3, short rest, 4, 5, 6, short rest, 7, 8, long rest.With Hard encounters occasionally it brings it down to the 6 or 7 that are also part of the common expectations from the DMG.</blockquote>