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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9091574" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I like both of these variants for different campaigns, giving different experiences.  The one week long rest is much better for a hex crawl/overland-travel focused game, where I don't want PCs to be able to nova on every single random encounter.But I absolutely agree with you, Voadam, that generally speaking a 5 minute rest is much more verisimilitudinous and a better match to the fiction  and the activity of dungeon-crawling than requiring an entire darn hour.Although ironically the Fellowship in Moria is probably an example where the hour break fits better than nearly any other dungeon crawl-type activity in fiction.   <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😆" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f606.png" title="Grinning squinting face    :laughing:" data-shortname=":laughing:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Yeah, that's kind of shocking to me too.  Though I guess I can imagine how even five minutes can be too long if you're really doing action movie pacing, chase scenes and bad guys getting away.</blockquote>