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Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)
End the 5 minute work-day by making all classes work off short rests.
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<blockquote data-quote="Kinematics" data-source="post: 8067169" data-attributes="member: 6932123"><p>A couple jobs I've had have mandated 1 hour lunches. Never mind that I can walk over to the cafeteria, get and eat lunch, and be back in a half hour. (In places where I bring my lunch, it's closer to 15 minutes.) What do I do with the other half hour? Dunno, not our problem, but by God you better not try to work during that time.</p><p></p><p>Back when I was doing sports in high school, even after a couple hours of exercise, cool down and stretching and recovery was under a half hour. Needing a full hour of rest just feels wrong, unless you're including hanging out and going home. Which isn't really in the same category as "short rest".</p><p></p><p>Overall, I can see a half hour being enough, with a little buffer built in. An hour is just way too much. 15 minutes is kinda OK, though it does feel a little short if you're including hit dice usage. Any sort of activity that I can imagine doing feels like 30 minutes is more than adequate to recover from physical exertion.</p><p></p><p>For a PHB example, a monk recovers his ki on a short rest, requiring 30 minutes of meditation. That seems to imply that 30 minutes is adequate for a short rest.</p><p></p><p>You always have the option to spend <em>more</em> time, if you want to do other stuff, but reducing the minimum from 1 hr to 30 minutes should be perfectly reasonable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kinematics, post: 8067169, member: 6932123"] A couple jobs I've had have mandated 1 hour lunches. Never mind that I can walk over to the cafeteria, get and eat lunch, and be back in a half hour. (In places where I bring my lunch, it's closer to 15 minutes.) What do I do with the other half hour? Dunno, not our problem, but by God you better not try to work during that time. Back when I was doing sports in high school, even after a couple hours of exercise, cool down and stretching and recovery was under a half hour. Needing a full hour of rest just feels wrong, unless you're including hanging out and going home. Which isn't really in the same category as "short rest". Overall, I can see a half hour being enough, with a little buffer built in. An hour is just way too much. 15 minutes is kinda OK, though it does feel a little short if you're including hit dice usage. Any sort of activity that I can imagine doing feels like 30 minutes is more than adequate to recover from physical exertion. For a PHB example, a monk recovers his ki on a short rest, requiring 30 minutes of meditation. That seems to imply that 30 minutes is adequate for a short rest. You always have the option to spend [i]more[/i] time, if you want to do other stuff, but reducing the minimum from 1 hr to 30 minutes should be perfectly reasonable. [/QUOTE]
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