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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robus" data-source="post: 7944894" data-attributes="member: 6801558">There is no other definition of an adventuring day <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, it is used to describe a 5e design objective, i.e. that a party of 4 PCs can reasonably expect to survive 6-8 combat encounters of the specified difficulties (difficulties derived from the CR of the monsters which measures their lethality in combat). Whatever non-combat activity goes on in that day is irrelevant as far as that design objective is concerned. Let’s not muddy the term with “everything‘s part of the adventure, so every day is an adventuring day!” <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And long rests are meant to complement that. And I would also say that because of the slow regen of hit dice, adventuring days are not meant to be consecutive</blockquote>