D&D 5E Monster Healing

[muppetmuppet]

How do you run monster healing. e.g the players are beaten off after a tough fight, monsters get a long or even a short rest before the players return, do they regain HP.

Currently I am ruling they full heal on a long rest as the players do, are there any rules? What do you do?
This assumes nothing about healing in the stat block casters cld obviously regain spells etc.

 

[mellored]

I would assume full HP with a long rest, and hit dice = CL with a short rest.

 

[iserith]

How do you run monster healing. e.g the players are beaten off after a tough fight, monsters get a long or even a short rest before the players return, do they regain HP.

Currently I am ruling they full heal on a long rest as the players do, are there any rules? What do you do?
This assumes nothing about healing in the stat block casters cld obviously regain spells etc.

I do full hit point recovery and half hit dice recovery as per the rules for resting.

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

Monsters have hit dice, I see no reason not to let them use them if the party's actions give them the opportunity for a short rest. I also see no reason not to give monsters the standard benefit of a long rest if they find the opportunity to take one.

 

[CapnZapp]

Theoretically monsters have the same hit dice and rest rules as the adventurers. (I'm using a variant where the long rest returns your used-up hit dice but restores no actual hit points)

In practice the monster that survives first contact with the adventurers is incredibly rare - not letting it heal up when the adventurers do would be incredibly unfair.

 

[jodyjohnson]

I agree with some exceptions. Short rest HD healing, and overnight healing by default.

I'd modify how this applies for certain corporeal undead and constructs.

 

[iserith]

In practice the monster that survives first contact with the adventurers is incredibly rare - not letting it heal up when the adventurers do would be incredibly unfair.

Unfair to whom? The monsters that don't actually exist? Haha.

 

[jodyjohnson]

Unfair to whom? The monsters that don't actually exist? Haha.

That's what they want you to think. Beware the dark!

 

[Sacrosanct]

Same rules apply to monsters as the PCs.

 

[Sunseeker]

Monsters regen just like players do. They can use their HD over a short rest and they can regain all HP over a long rest. Also like players, they're typically better prepared next time.