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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9774692" data-attributes="member: 93670">You have badly misinterpreted the rule.  Nothing in it suggests 24 hours of real world table time.  Furthermore there are three classes of players relevant to the decision to wait & all three need to be considered due to the fact that the other two are likely to be gm or  some fraction of the players at any given table<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wargamers: the decision is largely a cost benefit analysis of pure logic. Although factors such as potential impact on enjoyable tactical combat might weigh heavily, the level of disdain and outright contempt shown in 5e's rules design tactical combat should not be ignored.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Videogames: the game is treated like a video game. Why would they not rest as often as they could in order to unload with full on nova power as often as possible when the purpose of playing is to <a href="http://crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women" target="_blank">win</a>. To these players wotc's choices to actively remove elements from past editions that would make choosing to wait a nonoptimal choice yells loud and clear that waiting and resting again is the intended way of play.  Setting such a low bar on what it takes to start or complete a rest only underscores design intent here.  Like the wargamers the impact on tactical combat might be considered as something to weigh against the sheer joy of being able to wtfpwn & ROFLstoml the enemy, but tactical combat is heavily downplayed by the 5e ruleset itself and is unlikely to provide much weight to offset a mindset that approaches & plays the game largely as a place to crush your enemies see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Theater geeks: anyone who would rest excessively in order to fuel a 5mwd nova cycle is dubbed TFG  &  "weirdo".</li> </ul>The rules need to be written in a way that accepts and considers the mindset of all three groups as potentially playing the game and some rules need to consider one group more heavily than the others if that group brings a mindset likely to generate poor gameplay.  Sid Meyer of the civilization games did a great (and very long) presentation about those and other types of gamers§ and why it's important to balance when a given group should be overly considered or flatly ignored in regards to particular elements of game design. All of the groups he discusses are likely to play the game being designed and not all of them are going to have desires that are healthy to the goal of making a good enjoyable game, but sometimes specific design elements need to be written specifically with the goal of supporting the needs of a given group that depends on something working well.§I want to say it was at gdc a few years ago but could be wrong</blockquote>

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