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Just how long is a long rest anyway?
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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7942941" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>No, it is necessary because if you remove “period you’re left with the sentence “ If the rest is interrupted by 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.” Which would actually make B the more natural interpretation because the aside would seem to be defining “strenuous activity” rather than “a period of strenuous activity.”</p><p></p><p></p><p>You have not demonstrated how that’s a problem. I don’t think it is.</p><p></p><p></p><p>But B has the problem of producing the absurd conditions of any amount of “adventuring activity” interrupting the rest, in addition to being a horrible unintuitive parsing of the sentence. If B was the intended meaning, it would have been trivially easy to write it as “If the rest is interrupted by strenuous activity—at least 1 hour of walking or any amount of fighting, casting spells, or similar adventuring activity—the characters must begin the rest again to gain any benefit from it.” That would still mean any amount of “adventuring activity” breaks the rest, which would still be absurd, but at least it would be clear. On the other hand, if A was the intended meaning, how would one word that with similar clarity, without making the sentence unwieldy</p><p></p><p>It seems to me that if you consider the existence of a case where 600 rounds of combat can break a short rest a “sacrifice,” it is you who has a “preexisting preference for play” that you are trying to preserve with your tortured interpretation of the sentence.</p><p></p><p>And again, I’ll point to Jeremy Crawford’s clarification that the intent is indeed for it to require a 1-hour period of any of the listed activities to break a long rest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7942941, member: 6779196"] No, it is necessary because if you remove “period you’re left with the sentence “ If the rest is interrupted by 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.” Which would actually make B the more natural interpretation because the aside would seem to be defining “strenuous activity” rather than “a period of strenuous activity.” You have not demonstrated how that’s a problem. I don’t think it is. But B has the problem of producing the absurd conditions of any amount of “adventuring activity” interrupting the rest, in addition to being a horrible unintuitive parsing of the sentence. If B was the intended meaning, it would have been trivially easy to write it as “If the rest is interrupted by strenuous activity—at least 1 hour of walking or any amount of fighting, casting spells, or similar adventuring activity—the characters must begin the rest again to gain any benefit from it.” That would still mean any amount of “adventuring activity” breaks the rest, which would still be absurd, but at least it would be clear. On the other hand, if A was the intended meaning, how would one word that with similar clarity, without making the sentence unwieldy It seems to me that if you consider the existence of a case where 600 rounds of combat can break a short rest a “sacrifice,” it is you who has a “preexisting preference for play” that you are trying to preserve with your tortured interpretation of the sentence. And again, I’ll point to Jeremy Crawford’s clarification that the intent is indeed for it to require a 1-hour period of any of the listed activities to break a long rest. [/QUOTE]
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