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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7017015" data-attributes="member: 29398">That's an argument waiting to happen; the player can justifiably come back and say &quot;I had my long rest last night and have done nothing since; I should be able to rest overnight tonight as usual&quot;.&nbsp; Messy, and the fault's on the DM.One answer might go something like &quot;a long rest may be taken at any time, but a caster may only recover spells after the first long rest that ends within a midnight-to-midnight day.&quot;&nbsp; This way a caster can rest as much as she likes but can still only get spells back once per day, usually in the morning; but is flexible enough to allow for a party who is resting by day and adventuring by night.&nbsp; So, in the above example the caster would have gone through the motions of recovering spells this morning (but had none to recover as none were used yesterday), then after the evening combat could rest overnight and recover spells as usual tomorrow morning.If for some reason a caster wants to recover spells just after midnight, this is fine: she rests from about 4 p.m. on and gets her spells back just after midnight as that's when the long rest ends (but then can't recover spells again until after the next midnight as she's already used up that day's recovery).&nbsp; As long as there's only one spell recovery allowed between one midnight and the next, you're probably good to go.Lan-&quot;we've kind of done it this way for decades (though using different lingo than 5e does) and it hasn't presented any real issues&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7017015, member: 29398"] That's an argument waiting to happen; the player can justifiably come back and say "I had my long rest last night and have done nothing since; I should be able to rest overnight tonight as usual". Messy, and the fault's on the DM. One answer might go something like "a long rest may be taken at any time, but a caster may only recover spells after the first long rest that ends within a midnight-to-midnight day." This way a caster can rest as much as she likes but can still only get spells back once per day, usually in the morning; but is flexible enough to allow for a party who is resting by day and adventuring by night. So, in the above example the caster would have gone through the motions of recovering spells this morning (but had none to recover as none were used yesterday), then after the evening combat could rest overnight and recover spells as usual tomorrow morning. If for some reason a caster wants to recover spells just after midnight, this is fine: she rests from about 4 p.m. on and gets her spells back just after midnight as that's when the long rest ends (but then can't recover spells again until after the next midnight as she's already used up that day's recovery). As long as there's only one spell recovery allowed between one midnight and the next, you're probably good to go. Lan-"we've kind of done it this way for decades (though using different lingo than 5e does) and it hasn't presented any real issues"-efan [/QUOTE]

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