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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 9073125" data-attributes="member: 22424">Indeed. Which makes a lot of sense, except that 5e then makes the odd assumption that characters will face two encounters between short rests (and then introduces a whole bunch of &quot;you can use this X times&quot; short rest powers to compensate).Way back in the days of the BECMI Red Box, the exploration part of the game ran in turns of 10 minutes each, but then switched to rounds of 10 seconds each. This of course meant that a turn consisted of 60 rounds, but of course combats basically never lasted that long. However, a combat encounter was assumed to last a full turn - whatever time was left was assumed to be that &quot;5 minutes to catch your breath&quot;. (I'm not sure if B/X and other older versions did that the same way.)Of course, BECMI didn't have encounter powers as such. But something resembling short rests were built in, of fairly short duration and fairly regular occurrence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 9073125, member: 22424"] Indeed. Which makes a lot of sense, except that 5e then makes the odd assumption that characters will face [I]two[/I] encounters between short rests (and then introduces a whole bunch of "you can use this X times" short rest powers to compensate). Way back in the days of the BECMI Red Box, the exploration part of the game ran in turns of 10 minutes each, but then switched to rounds of 10 seconds each. This of course meant that a turn consisted of 60 rounds, but of course combats basically never lasted that long. However, a combat encounter was assumed to last a full turn - whatever time was left was assumed to be that "5 minutes to catch your breath". (I'm not sure if B/X and other older versions did that the same way.) Of course, BECMI didn't have encounter powers as such. But something resembling short rests were built in, of fairly short duration and fairly regular occurrence. [/QUOTE]

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