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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7184559" data-attributes="member: 20564">First thing I want to say - I really like how you are thinking outside the box with this.&nbsp; I'll stay within your requests and look at this within the bounds of XP per encounter, XP only from encounters, and recommended encounters per short &amp; long rest being correct.Having said that, I think that one facet of the current system that is missing is that in the theoretical 6-8 encounter per long rest with short rests every 1/3 of the way (as per the DM), there is an implied gap of no rests.&nbsp; This allows DMs to create tension based on resource depletion - running low on spells, HPs, features, etc.&nbsp; It's just one way to create tension, but one in common usage.13th Age is a d20 game that shares a lot of philosophy and DNA with 5e.&nbsp; They also unhooked their equivalent of a long rest from the narrative, but in order to keep the gaps it only comes after 4 combat encounters.&nbsp; The DM can give it early if the encounters are harder, and the characters can take one early but they will suffer a campaign setback if they do so.Basing rests on number of encounters, or to be closer to what you were doing, based on encounter XP, would give the same number of rests (short and long) as you are proposing, but gives back the tension control of running low on resources.&nbsp; So a short rest could happen every certain amount of XP and a long rest at three times that.&nbsp; Renaming them to take out the word &quot;rest&quot; to help divorce it from the narrative would probably be helpful.This gives the same results as what you suggested but paces it evenly over the whole level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7184559, member: 20564"] First thing I want to say - I really like how you are thinking outside the box with this. I'll stay within your requests and look at this within the bounds of XP per encounter, XP [I]only[/I] from encounters, and recommended encounters per short & long rest being correct. Having said that, I think that one facet of the current system that is missing is that in the theoretical 6-8 encounter per long rest with short rests every 1/3 of the way (as per the DM), there is an implied gap of no rests. This allows DMs to create tension based on resource depletion - running low on spells, HPs, features, etc. It's just one way to create tension, but one in common usage. 13th Age is a d20 game that shares a lot of philosophy and DNA with 5e. They also unhooked their equivalent of a long rest from the narrative, but in order to keep the gaps it only comes after 4 combat encounters. The DM can give it early if the encounters are harder, and the characters can take one early but they will suffer a campaign setback if they do so. Basing rests on number of encounters, or to be closer to what you were doing, based on encounter XP, would give the same number of rests (short and long) as you are proposing, but gives back the tension control of running low on resources. So a short rest could happen every certain amount of XP and a long rest at three times that. Renaming them to take out the word "rest" to help divorce it from the narrative would probably be helpful. This gives the same results as what you suggested but paces it evenly over the whole level. [/QUOTE]

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