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<blockquote data-quote="D'karr" data-source="post: 5879946" data-attributes="member: 336">Before you decide to &quot;fix&quot; extended rests you should clearly define what it is you are trying to &quot;fix&quot; and more importantly why it needs fixing.&nbsp; I cover this at length in <a href="http://loremaster.org/entry.php/46" target="_blank">this article</a> at Loremaster.orgFor example is the problem with &quot;extended&quot; rests the time needed, or the fact that you recover all adventuring resources (surges, daily resources)?What it seems you are trying to fix might not be fixable by increasing time.&nbsp; If the problem you are trying to fix is the shortness of the adventuring day, decreasing the adventuring resources simply puts you in an opposite spiral to what you are attempting to do.If your problem is that adventuring resources are recovered then you need to determine why that is bothersome.&nbsp; Because the problem you will &quot;create&quot; on the other side is to continue to &quot;shorten&quot; the day.If you are able to clearly define what your &quot;problem&quot; boils down to, then you can come up with an appropriate manner of house-ruling the issue.I have several &quot;situational&quot; house rules for my games.&nbsp; They are situational because I don't want to apply them to every adventure or every situation due to pacing concerns.&nbsp; I have house rules for short term injury, long term injury, and even for faster recovery of resources.&nbsp; All of them are based on the pacing that I want a particular adventure to have.&nbsp; But they were all defined based on the &quot;problem&quot; that the rules did not address properly.&nbsp; I had to make sure that I was defining the problem properly before I came up with &quot;solutions&quot; to that problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="D'karr, post: 5879946, member: 336"] Before you decide to "fix" extended rests you should clearly define what it is you are trying to "fix" and more importantly why it needs fixing. I cover this at length in [URL="http://loremaster.org/entry.php/46"]this article[/URL] at Loremaster.org For example is the problem with "extended" rests the time needed, or the fact that you recover all adventuring resources (surges, daily resources)? What it seems you are trying to fix might not be fixable by increasing time. If the problem you are trying to fix is the shortness of the adventuring day, decreasing the adventuring resources simply puts you in an opposite spiral to what you are attempting to do. If your problem is that adventuring resources are recovered then you need to determine why that is bothersome. Because the problem you will "create" on the other side is to continue to "shorten" the day. If you are able to clearly define what your "problem" boils down to, then you can come up with an appropriate manner of house-ruling the issue. I have several "situational" house rules for my games. They are situational because I don't want to apply them to every adventure or every situation due to pacing concerns. I have house rules for short term injury, long term injury, and even for faster recovery of resources. All of them are based on the pacing that I want a particular adventure to have. But they were all defined based on the "problem" that the rules did not address properly. I had to make sure that I was defining the problem properly before I came up with "solutions" to that problem. [/QUOTE]

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