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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9138707" data-attributes="member: 20564">I am strongly considering that my next campaign use the Gritty Rest variant, or at least a close variation on it.  And I'd like your thoughts on how this will impact play.  I've got a couple of thoughts  I'd like to address already, but I am even more looking forward to your thoughts, especially if you have run Gritty Rest before.  My goal is to fit encounter-per-long-rest to my DMing style, with 5-8+ encounters between long rests.  So this isn't "lots of encounters per long rest", this is "the correct number of encounters per long rest".To give a fuller context, I was also planning on starting at 5th level (players who have been together for several campaigns) and I was intending to expand skill usage to cover more heroic fantasy level tropes as they go up tiers.  For example while a T1 PC with proficiency in handle animals might be able to keep a suspricious beast from going hostile, a T3 PC (or T2 with expertise) might be able to calm a charging mother bear and befriend the cubs.  Since the party will be starting in T2, they will already be able to do things past the "real world" with their standard proficiency.  I think that will help keep things fantastical, and also help replace some things currently done with utility spells that are instead spread among the entire party, caster or not.  I use Milestone leveling, so the party avoiding meaningless encounters will not hurt them in advancement.  One last thing - I will be using the various optional abilities in Tasha's with one exception: Harness Divinity, the regaining of spell slots by using a channel divinity.Anyway, here's a list of concerns I've already thought of, and I'm looking for you to add more that I missed:Short rests per long restFirst the ratio of short rests (overnight) to long rests (7 days) will be rather off, with a lot more short rests.  This will empower short-rest-recovery classes like the warlock, the monk, and fighter (battlemaster).  Actually, that's not true.  I think those classes will stay in balance with the at-will classes, but both will have an advantage over the long rest recovery classes like the casters, as well as the hybrids like the paladin or the barbarian.Are there any (sub)class or racial features that I should reduce uses of and move to per short rest?  For example, halve number of barbarian rages, but restore one used one on a short rest?  I'd mildly prefer not to do this, but will if needed.Long duration spells (& rituals)Some spells are meant to last for multiple encounters, or for "all day".  With fewer slots, do I still support these intentions?  And where's the cut-off for some things are still back to back.  For instance, 10 minutes I wouldn't touch, but 1 hour I could make 4 hours.  Do I do this for all casters, or all Spellcasters and leave Pact Magic alone?For the all day ones, do I make them them into rituals?  If so that gets rid of any slots used on them, and expands usage like using Mage Armor on every light armor wearer.  Plus it doesn't handle spells like Hex having a longer duration when upcast.  Perhaps I should just increase those as well.  8 hours becomes 3 days, 1 day become until next long rest.Magic item rechargeIf you consider a week of adventuring and then a week of downtime, that's 14 days.  I was thinking on making magic items that recharge do so on the new and full moons.Encounter strengthWhile a Medium encounter doesn't feel like all that much, it it attrition of resources.  This is just to remember that Gritty Rest will likely ensure the game will be heavily attrition based and that even lesser encounters will have repecussions, and that limited resources spent avoiding an encounter might be best.What have I missed?I don't know what I don't know.  Outside of frequency of usage which I think I addressed, what else should I be looking at?So, your thoughts?  Especially on what I've missed.</blockquote>

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