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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6686824" data-attributes="member: 12731">This is all fine and dandy, but how do you actually do it in practice?I mean, this isn't the first time I've read stuff like "Resting should be a hard decision the party makes"......but there's absolutely no game mechanic to make it so. It's all dumped in the lap of the adventure designer or DM. Sure, I can come up with a trite variation of the "the princess will be sacrificed in X hours or days" to use story to limit rests, buta) this feels so very arbitrary: some stories don't have a ticking clock built-in. In fact, if the clock sets a hard uncircumventable limit, I've found this will reek of being there only for rest-denying purposes more often than not. b) this still does not change the fact that 7 easy fights are boring while 3 challenging ones are excitingWhat, exactly, in 5E's design makes it "encourage[] the game to be about more than a string of very difficult encounters"...? (I honestly don't see it!)If you're talking about pressing on despite being low on spells and hit points, I don't see how this edition differs from any other in that there really isn't any mechanical support that actually encourages you to actually do that.Adding in a ticking clock that forces you to extend the adventurig day is fine once in a while, but it does nothing to solve the issue more generally.Contrast this to something like: "the party can't gain the benefits of a short rest until after completing at least two encounters, and the party can't gain the benefits of a long rest until after completing at least two short rests."NOW YOURE TALKING. Now suddenly D&D would be transformed into a game where resource depletion would be a real thing, regardless of story. Now the adventure would be freed from the yoke of having to provide rest constraints, and all this talk about how the game "should" do this and "should" do that would suddenly make sense!But I fear such an edition of the game will never come to pass. Sigh...</blockquote>

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