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<blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 7023870" data-attributes="member: 284">It's counter-intuitive because you are saying that partway through your long rest you can regain some (but not all) of your rest-racharge abilities, and that you can spend HD and then regain them all 7 hours later. The sticking point for me is the spending HD and then regaining them, all in the same rest.&nbsp; That, and the rules say you get the benefits when you end the rest.If you were attempting a long rest you wouldn't spend any HD because you are going get all your HP back anyway.&nbsp; But with your interpretation, you can actually end up with fewer HD at the end of a long rest than when you started.&nbsp; Because part way through you decide to spend HD in case you don't get to rest as long as you want.&nbsp;&nbsp; I'm gonna have to go with my prior reading of the rules - you can't &quot;end&quot; a Short rest and still have it be part of a Long rest.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ending a rest isn't an automatic thing, the players decide when they are done and get the benefits based on how long they were resting before they ended it.Either they ended the rest or they didn't.&nbsp;&nbsp; If they didn't end the rest hey don't recharge anything and can't spend HD to heal, but they can continue resting until they've rested enough to end it as a long rest.&nbsp;&nbsp; If the players decide to end their rest after an hour, they get the benefits of a short rest.&nbsp; But once they do, they have stopped resting and will need to start again from the beginning if they want a long rest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Caliban, post: 7023870, member: 284"] It's counter-intuitive because you are saying that partway through your long rest you can regain some (but not all) of your rest-racharge abilities, and that you can spend HD and then regain them all 7 hours later. The sticking point for me is the spending HD and then regaining them, all in the same rest. That, and the rules say you get the benefits when you end the rest. If you were attempting a long rest you wouldn't spend any HD because you are going get all your HP back anyway. But with your interpretation, you can actually end up with fewer HD at the end of a long rest than when you started. Because part way through you decide to spend HD in case you don't get to rest as long as you want. I'm gonna have to go with my prior reading of the rules - you can't "end" a Short rest and still have it be part of a Long rest. Ending a rest isn't an automatic thing, the players decide when they are done and get the benefits based on how long they were resting before they ended it. Either they ended the rest or they didn't. If they didn't end the rest hey don't recharge anything and can't spend HD to heal, but they can continue resting until they've rested enough to end it as a long rest. If the players decide to end their rest after an hour, they get the benefits of a short rest. But once they do, they have stopped resting and will need to start again from the beginning if they want a long rest. [/QUOTE]

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