This is going to be a short post.
In another thread about ... eh, something or other ... I wrote the following-
I think they have to do something about the short rest / long rest imbalance. A lot of the issues in class balance are actually just issues with parties that have a mix of short rest classes and long rest classes, but don't take enough short rests. They either have to expand short rest mechanics (so that every class has at least some reason to want to take it), or they have to provide the classes that are heavily dependent on it (Monk, Warlock, Fighter) expanded, "long rest" equivalent resources.
Now, I was thinking about this a little more, and I came up with a super easy way to deal with this "problem." Because this is almost always a table issue.
The usual and expected ratio of short rests to a long rest is 2:1. So a "typical" adventuring day should look like this-
Wake Up
(Adventure)
Short rest
(Adventure)
Short Rest
(Adventure)
Long Rest
Repeat
The reason I am making this so explicit is this- imagine you have a short rest ability, like a Monk with ki, or a warlock with spells, or a fighter with action surge, etc.
Let's take a specific example- a 7th level monk has 7 ki points. If they are constrained by the party doing the whole, "NOVA rest NOVA rest etc." then that's not much ki. On the other hand, if they get the expected amount of short rest, they have 21 ki to use, which is pretty good for a day! That's right- the regular amount of short rests gives you THREE TIMES the amount of usage.
whew
So what is Snarf's Simplified Solution to tables with Short Rest problems? Simple- any class ability premised on a short rest gets trasmogrified into a Long Rest ability, but with 3x the number of uses. So Monks get 3x the ki. Warlocks get 3x the spells. Fighters get 3x the second winds and action surge. And so on.
Now, I personally think that this isn't necessary, but I have heard enough complaints to know that other people are looking for a solution. So what do you think? By the way, I am quite sure other people have come up with this before, but I am shocked that more people don't do this.
In another thread about ... eh, something or other ... I wrote the following-
I think they have to do something about the short rest / long rest imbalance. A lot of the issues in class balance are actually just issues with parties that have a mix of short rest classes and long rest classes, but don't take enough short rests. They either have to expand short rest mechanics (so that every class has at least some reason to want to take it), or they have to provide the classes that are heavily dependent on it (Monk, Warlock, Fighter) expanded, "long rest" equivalent resources.
Now, I was thinking about this a little more, and I came up with a super easy way to deal with this "problem." Because this is almost always a table issue.
The usual and expected ratio of short rests to a long rest is 2:1. So a "typical" adventuring day should look like this-
Wake Up
(Adventure)
Short rest
(Adventure)
Short Rest
(Adventure)
Long Rest
Repeat
The reason I am making this so explicit is this- imagine you have a short rest ability, like a Monk with ki, or a warlock with spells, or a fighter with action surge, etc.
Let's take a specific example- a 7th level monk has 7 ki points. If they are constrained by the party doing the whole, "NOVA rest NOVA rest etc." then that's not much ki. On the other hand, if they get the expected amount of short rest, they have 21 ki to use, which is pretty good for a day! That's right- the regular amount of short rests gives you THREE TIMES the amount of usage.
whew
So what is Snarf's Simplified Solution to tables with Short Rest problems? Simple- any class ability premised on a short rest gets trasmogrified into a Long Rest ability, but with 3x the number of uses. So Monks get 3x the ki. Warlocks get 3x the spells. Fighters get 3x the second winds and action surge. And so on.
Now, I personally think that this isn't necessary, but I have heard enough complaints to know that other people are looking for a solution. So what do you think? By the way, I am quite sure other people have come up with this before, but I am shocked that more people don't do this.
