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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 7122030" data-attributes="member: 6788736">A session is not an adventuring day. It might be convenient to long rest at the end of a session (so everyone is back to full strength by the next session) but surely your group is able to handle recording resource usage (loss of hp, hid, spell slots, sorcery points, action surge etc) during the session so you can pick up where you left off last session?If you're getting 3-4 encounters per session, and find that keying long rests to the end of your sessions works for you, then simply key long rests to happen the end of every second session.Also note, an adventuring day doesn't have to be a actual 'day' in game either. An adventuring 'day' is simply the span of game time between long rests. There are options in the game to make long rest take an entire week (turning an adventuring 'day' into the activity that happens in the several weeks of adventuring between long rests) and another option that turns long rests into 1 hour breaks (meaning you can have several adventuring 'days' in one actual day).You can key long rest resource recharge into something other than game time as well. Milestone resource recovery is one option (when the PCs clear the 1st dungeon level they get the benefits of a long rest). There are other more arbitrary methods that I have seen work well - one of which as the DM simply telling the players straight up  that they can rest as much as they want, but only the rest they take after the 6th encounter 'counts as' a long rest (and rests after every 2nd encounter count as short rests). It was arbitrary, but players stopped the [nova] fall back and rest [nova] fall back and rest [nova] cycle, and instead focused on beating the encounters and getting through to that long rest after the 6th encounter. The felt a lot more like 4th edition (short rest abilities became almost encounter abilities, and long rest abilities were dailies). there was no need to game the rest system, because it simply wassnt possible anymore. The game was balanced, but via an obvious artificial framework (much like 4E was).You dont need to cram 6-8 encounters in a single [game day]. An adventuring 'day' is not a game day; it is simply the time between long rests. It can be any period of game time, or triggered off anything else that you want. You could have them happen after a whole week of rest in town (gritty realism), or on the first day of every game month, or after every second session, or after every 6th encounter or whatever.</blockquote>

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