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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grakarg" data-source="post: 8360379" data-attributes="member: 41096">Generally speaking, burning your slots on elixirs and refreshing/reburning them with warlock slots is fineYou can probably get away with doing a single 'short rest' at the beginning of the adventuring day if you're starting at an inn or in town, but you might not be able to do so if you're camping out in a dungeon or something, you'll have to choose carefully if you're 'long resting' in a dungeon (say in a Leomund's tiny hut or something) and then trying to do a short rest immediately afterward.  Maybe you'll be able to, maybe not.And you should always burn any remaining slots/warlock slots before starting a short rest.  Thats fine too.You likely won't be able to do multiple back-to-back short rests to stockpile a bunch of elixirs.  The short rest rule is a 'period of time at least 1 hour'.  Its at least 1 hour.  It could be a longer period of time.  So if you rest for 2 hours back to back, many DM's will rule that as just 1 short rest.  Especially if you are doing something they think is abusive or bends the rules too far.Jeremy Crawford commented about this in 'sage advice' so you can search that for specifics if you want.  Essentially the short rest mechanic is to take a narrative pause, not be a refresh button to hit repeatedly.Cheers!</blockquote>