UngeheuerLich
Legend
I have yet to see a broken class. There are rest options in the DMG for everyone. And if they don´t suffice, just make up your own variant.
Maybe I missed something, but if the problem is that the warlock and battlemaster only work in campaigns that are rigorously balanced around a certain number of encounters and short rests, then why isn't the solution to disallow those classes in campaigns that aren't balanced in such a way?
The base class of Fighter is easy to convert into a long rest class. 3 times a day Second Wind/ 3 Times a day Action Surge, but only usable once per encounter.
It's hard to get 6-8 encounters in a session and a book keeping pain in the ass to split it over multiple sessions.
Thats what character sheets are for.
When you use a spell slot or short/ long rest resource, or lose HP, note it on your character sheet.
Is that an unreasonable burden to place on the DM? The rest of the rules are pretty clear about the DM being in charge, and only including the options they are comfortable with.That requires that DMs be cognizant of what they are doing as far as balance;
That's a good summary. Some classes are actively wounded by a short rest (ie artilerist who has a turret expire & needs a spell slot to recover it butt has no short rest resources as an easy one. Others like land druid/wizard/etc. some get a small limited recovery like wizard/druid arcane recovery/natural recovery... and then there is this other group who casts the same spells but can do so with abandon by constantly taking short rests between fights. An artillerist artificerm UA druid, wizard, sorcerer, light cleric. & warlock all cast a roughly identical fireball spell the first round of combat using a third level spell slot. Some of them add an ability mod to damage or something & some could recover that spell slot once with a short rest... but one can do that no matter how many fights there areThat requires that DMs be cognizant of what they are doing as far as balance; but it isn't just those classes. Monks and to some extent bards are hit by this, too (but bards are strong and have LR spellcasting). Rogues to a lesser extent as they aren't balanced with rests at all - so like fighters they ought to be doing it all day when long rest classes are running dry.
With short rest resources sprinkled unevenly across the playable PHB classes, some regular number of short rests need to happen. I'm not talking about a once in a blue moon short or ultra-long day, I'm talking about DMs and/or groups avoiding short rests as a default preference.
If the balance issue is significant enough to interfere with the campaign, then wouldn't it necessarily be significant enough for the DM to take notice?
Not unless the players speak up.
Short rest classes running on empty is a far more common complaint than long rest classes running on empty - that should be a sign that, generally, DMs aren't managing this well.
But all the new players to 5E are doing their own thing from what I'm seeing. They don't know) care about 4E or earlier at least in terms of expectations.