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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7016858" data-attributes="member: 20564">Excellent point, I hadn't thought about the effects of this on the desirability of a short rest.  Do you think I should pair this with easing short rests (making shorter, etc.) since there will be less pressure to take them and therefore the short-rest-recovery classes will be at a disadvantage?For my next campaign I had considered changes to rest mechanics based off a thread on Adventures in Middle Earth changes to 5e from last week that would slow down rests slightly similar to the DMG variants, but that was for a specific feel to the campaign not for general use.  I was already planning a "safety value" of if you complete three encounters since your last rest, you can recover features (but not spend HD) as if you had a short rest.  The 3 encounters was more then expected - this was a safety value not the normal mechanic.  But maybe that might fit well with these healing rules regardless of the campaign feel. As for "less tense", an assumption I made but only referred to in passing in the second rule is that increase healing will likely have increased threat during encounter design.  I know I design encounters for what my party can do instead of a generic placeholder - and some parties are more optimized or have more synergy while others aren't.  If a party isn't feeling risk, I'll likely throw harder encounters their way. I'm not sure I see that.  I was thinking that if you need to spend HD to heal 40 HPs of damage, it doesn't really matter if it happens during combat or during a short rest.  What am I missing?I wouldn't want stacking bonuses, like HD back each time, but a short rest bonus that diminishes or goes away could work.  Doesn't even need to go away with dropping - it could fade over encounters and give an incentive to take a short rest, which those classes with short rest recovery would enjoy.  As a side note, the Rally action is recharged by hosrt rests so it's already an encouragement.  On the flip side, we're already giving PCs a boost - an additional boost pushed them even further off the norm.  Maybe more negative consequences that can be resolved by a short rest.</blockquote>

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