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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 5017222" data-attributes="member: 51942">You don't need a party to take a short rest, right?  If you split up, can you still take a short rest?  Can one have of a split party take a short rest while the others press on?Creatures take short rests, not parties.  The notion of a party is just a handiness.  If game balance requires that a PC must rest whenever another PC rests, something's wrong: there's no logical connection between one PC's rest and another.  I see split rests all the time for perfectly mundane reasons: after some encounters some people are almost down and entirely out of encounter powers; while others happened to get it easy.  The barely alive PC's tend to say "I don't know about you, but I need a breather, now".  Mostly unhurt PC's that used fewer encounter powers say "sure, but let's secure the area and search the bodies first.It almost never matters; but just because one PC wants to rest shouldn't somehow force the rest to do so.From a gameplay perspective, it's also unfun to need to excessively precisely police what counts as a short rest.  If they want to rest and can get 5 minutes of stress-free time in-game, player's can do the accounting themselves.  Anything that requires to DM to verify exactly if everyone's onboard is a hassle....which leads me to the conclusion that temporary hitpoints shouldn't last more than 5 minutes; but whatever the case shouldn't end because of a short rest.  It doesn't much make sense to me anyhow that a guy constantly doing pushups can somehow maintain temporary hitpoints.  That's just a house-rule, though.</blockquote>

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