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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhammeWhamme" data-source="post: 9893619" data-attributes="member: 7056632">If we look at the 5e CRPG, we see that short rests seem intended (or were found to work best by a pretty well-respected team of game devs, I wasn't in the room when they were talking) as roughly a 2/day resource (or at least, that's how it looked briefly playing it).One could use that for relatively extensive game hacks, either changing all short rest abilities to "3/day, max 1/minute" and treating everyone as a daily class, or reversing the math and turning daily classes into short rest classes (you get 1/3rd as many spell slots, but they refresh on a short rest).However, I think it's easier to use that to structure encounter and adventure design: 6-8 encounters, split into three sequential batches (so with two places for a short rest). Including trash mobs that aren't necessarily obviously trash mobs ("we're fighting some kind of giant bugs. Are these guys a trash mob fight or a serious threat?") and sufficient quantities of enemies to absorb resources over time, and having roughly half of encounters lead into another encounter (including sometimes three in a row), means that first round novas become chancier.I also personally built in a setting-specific rule that generally makes long rests a non-option before the adventure ends, barring the players accepting defeat on their overall objectives. (My own specific creation there is... well, relatively complex.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Most places and times, the world is lower-magic than the full power of PC classes and magical monsters.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some places are naturally higher magic, but you get sick if you stay in such an area for more than 6 hours (so you need to pull out to rest)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Areas can be raised to be higher magic fairly easily with ritual magic, but this is temporary and non-cumulative (so you can do it before heading in to an area, but if you take a nap, you wake up to find your higher-end powers are disabled).</li> </ul>Part of this is world-building to justify most of the world being lower-magic, but I've found it to be a a pretty good way to make it clear to the players that if they want to achieve their objectives, they have to do it without taking a long rest and if they nova and run out of juice, their options are push on anyway or give up and give the enemy several days to restock, resupply, retreat, the works.)</blockquote>

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