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<blockquote data-quote="Lanliss" data-source="post: 7016432" data-attributes="member: 6801219">This issue came up in Critical Role. The barbarian had a Sword that gained power as he struck enemies with it, but the power would go away on a short or long rest. In an attempt to avoid resting, he spent everyone else's rest time keeping watch and aggressively pacing, to keep his heart rate up.From an in world perspective, the heart rate is important, IMO. If you let your body relax, it is beginning to &quot;rest&quot; itself. If you don't let it rest, it begins to get exhausted, and stops responding so well. So, to avoid a long rest you don't want, you must not let your body rest. It will be up to your DM on whether you have done enough to become exhausted from not resting, though I wouldn't personally require a rest after a day of average walking pace. This would be entirely situational though, and probably influenced by past days ( &quot;Well, you spent today just walking, but you literally died yesterday, so I wouldn't say you are quite ready to go without proper sleep yet. Take a level of exhaustion&quot; )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanliss, post: 7016432, member: 6801219"] This issue came up in Critical Role. The barbarian had a Sword that gained power as he struck enemies with it, but the power would go away on a short or long rest. In an attempt to avoid resting, he spent everyone else's rest time keeping watch and aggressively pacing, to keep his heart rate up. From an in world perspective, the heart rate is important, IMO. If you let your body relax, it is beginning to "rest" itself. If you don't let it rest, it begins to get exhausted, and stops responding so well. So, to avoid a long rest you don't want, you must not let your body rest. It will be up to your DM on whether you have done enough to become exhausted from not resting, though I wouldn't personally require a rest after a day of average walking pace. This would be entirely situational though, and probably influenced by past days ( "Well, you spent today just walking, but you literally died yesterday, so I wouldn't say you are quite ready to go without proper sleep yet. Take a level of exhaustion" ) [/QUOTE]

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