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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6854469" data-attributes="member: 37579">There's no perfect system. Recharging at dawn keeps things simple and has story reasons: new day, a transition, and the magic is restored. And if you adventured all day and slept all night (aka &quot;the norm&quot;) your magic items are recharged when you are. It's a story and world based reason. Recharging after a long rest takes the above but ties it to the PCs activities, so adventurers exploring during the night don't get a recharge early, and ones who rest in the middle of the day are ready to go. But then you have the oddity of your wand recharging because you took a nap. And it encourages a 5 minute workday since you can adventure and then rest a few times in a 24-hour span. After 24-hours keeps things consistent. So you can't get a quick reset by using an item during the night or resting during the day. But the later you use an item the longer it takes to recharge - if you used it right before bed it's not usable the next adventuring day either. And it requires you to track each item separately and they all recharge at different times.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6854469, member: 37579"] There's no perfect system. Recharging at dawn keeps things simple and has story reasons: new day, a transition, and the magic is restored. And if you adventured all day and slept all night (aka "the norm") your magic items are recharged when you are. It's a story and world based reason. Recharging after a long rest takes the above but ties it to the PCs activities, so adventurers exploring during the night don't get a recharge early, and ones who rest in the middle of the day are ready to go. But then you have the oddity of your wand recharging because you took a nap. And it encourages a 5 minute workday since you can adventure and then rest a few times in a 24-hour span. After 24-hours keeps things consistent. So you can't get a quick reset by using an item during the night or resting during the day. But the later you use an item the longer it takes to recharge - if you used it right before bed it's not usable the next adventuring day either. And it requires you to track each item separately and they all recharge at different times. [/QUOTE]

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