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<blockquote data-quote="Baldurs_Underdark" data-source="post: 8101928" data-attributes="member: 6880355">On roll20, the text is currently: A Long Rest is a period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during which a character sleeps or performs light activity: reading, talking, eating, or standing watch for no more than 2 hours. If the rest is interrupted by a period of strenuous activity—at least 1 hour of walking, fighting, casting Spells, or similar Adventuring activity—the characters must begin the rest again to gain any benefit from it.That reads to me as if fighting and spell casting are on the same level: If you perform more than 1 hour of each then you reset your long rest.Personally, as a DM, I have always thought that the rules RAW are silly. As a DM, I always rule that any combat (even 1 round) or spellcasting interrupts a long rest. It makes little to no sense to me that someone can get up from a rest, spike their adrenaline to the max, fight to the death with some monsters, and then soon pass out for 3 more hours of sleep and wake up without exhaustion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Baldurs_Underdark, post: 8101928, member: 6880355"] On roll20, the text is currently: [I]A Long Rest is a period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during which a character sleeps or performs light activity: reading, talking, eating, or standing watch for no more than 2 hours. If the rest is interrupted by a period of strenuous activity—at least 1 hour of walking, fighting, casting Spells, or similar Adventuring activity—the characters must begin the rest again to gain any benefit from it.[/I] That reads to me as if fighting and spell casting are on the same level: If you perform more than 1 hour of each then you reset your long rest. Personally, as a DM, I have always thought that the rules RAW are silly. As a DM, I always rule that [I]any [/I]combat (even 1 round) or spellcasting interrupts a long rest. It makes little to no sense to me that someone can get up from a rest, spike their adrenaline to the max, fight to the death with some monsters, and then soon pass out for 3 more hours of sleep and wake up without exhaustion. [/QUOTE]

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