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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7213535" data-attributes="member: 996">5e (and, presumably, any cool new magic item for it) is written in natural language.&nbsp; So if you say something goes away when your rest, the intent is probably that it goes away when you rest.&nbsp;Actually, it uses hours.&nbsp; Rests are an activity (no irony intended) that take a certain* number of hours - 1 &amp; 8 by default - those hours pass whether you rest or not.&nbsp; If the item were meant to have power that faded over time, rather than with the state of its wielder, it'd just lose some fraction of it's power per hour or day.&nbsp; Either way, a rules-lawyer would likely find a way to 'game' it.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />* or, if I'm running, an uncertain number of hours, depending on the circumstances and pacing of the campaign at the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7213535, member: 996"] 5e (and, presumably, any cool new magic item for it) is written in natural language. So if you say something goes away when your rest, the intent is probably that it goes away when you rest. Actually, it uses hours. Rests are an activity (no irony intended) that take a certain* number of hours - 1 & 8 by default - those hours pass whether you rest or not. If the item were meant to have power that faded over time, rather than with the state of its wielder, it'd just lose some fraction of it's power per hour or day. Either way, a rules-lawyer would likely find a way to 'game' it. ;) * or, if I'm running, an [i]un[/i]certain number of hours, depending on the circumstances and pacing of the campaign at the time. [/QUOTE]

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