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<blockquote data-quote="Aribar" data-source="post: 6564170" data-attributes="member: 6777974">I've read about DMs changing the way Short and Long Rests work, adapting rules from different story games, that may be a solution. They don't link the benefits of resting to actual hour or eight hour long time periods in the campaign. Instead, at any time players can choose to take a Short Rest or Long Rest and it takes however much time as it fits the narrative. Typically they limit it to something like 3-4 Short Rests between Long Rests, if the party chooses to take a Long Rest, then bad things can happen. It puts the pacing in the player's hands while preventing them from just resting all the time with no repercussions.So if the party's racing to find a cure to a zombie plague threatening a major city, they could be traveling to an ancient temple of healing a week away. Maybe they make good time and don't run into many encounters, so they don't need to rest much. However, then they take a side quest that forces them to use up their Short Rests; maybe a small village is beseiged by orcs also looking for the cure? They take some Short Rests representing a second wind between waves of orcs, and in the end have to take a Long Rest after repelling the attack. Well, since they took a Long Rest, things get worse. Maybe that horde size grows or ghouls are now seen in the mix. Maybe orc agents found the temple and it will now be a race not only against time but an opposing group. Maybe future Long Rests mean the city's begun to be attacked or the orcs stole the item they needed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aribar, post: 6564170, member: 6777974"] I've read about DMs changing the way Short and Long Rests work, adapting rules from different story games, that may be a solution. They don't link the benefits of resting to actual hour or eight hour long time periods in the campaign. Instead, at any time players can choose to take a Short Rest or Long Rest and it takes however much time as it fits the narrative. Typically they limit it to something like 3-4 Short Rests between Long Rests, if the party chooses to take a Long Rest, then bad things can happen. It puts the pacing in the player's hands while preventing them from just resting all the time with no repercussions. So if the party's racing to find a cure to a zombie plague threatening a major city, they could be traveling to an ancient temple of healing a week away. Maybe they make good time and don't run into many encounters, so they don't need to rest much. However, then they take a side quest that forces them to use up their Short Rests; maybe a small village is beseiged by orcs also looking for the cure? They take some Short Rests representing a second wind between waves of orcs, and in the end have to take a Long Rest after repelling the attack. Well, since they took a Long Rest, things get worse. Maybe that horde size grows or ghouls are now seen in the mix. Maybe orc agents found the temple and it will now be a race not only against time but an opposing group. Maybe future Long Rests mean the city's begun to be attacked or the orcs stole the item they needed. [/QUOTE]

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