D&D 5E If you had to choose: short rest vs long rest

[FrogReaver]

Fighter also gets +2 damage with one-handed weapons, or +almost 2 with greatswords, which is equal to the rage bonus in the beginning. I also think the rage damage resistance is typically countered by the use of reckless attack, though reckless attack then boosts damage.

It should be possible to balance them.

Yea. That said Barbarian 1 / Fighter X is a pretty impressive build.

 

[Xeviat]

Yea. That said Barbarian 1 / Fighter X is a pretty impressive build.

I'd go Barbarian 2 to get reckless attack.

 

[FrogReaver]

I'd go Barbarian 2 to get reckless attack.

Eventually yea. I would do that early though.

 

[Garthanos]

I dont if you know Giffyglyph, but he's making a class compendium for each class to port them to long rest recharge, with 1-10th level progression and with more decision point within each class. I think you may like them.

Giffyglyph | Class Compendium

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has some interesting elements like scaling size factors on some maneuvers for the fighter and the like going on.

 

[jeffh]

The middle option if I absolutely had to choose one, but I'd prefer to leave it as is except for house ruling short rests down from an hour to a deliberately fuzzily defined "few minutes".