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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 7120257" data-attributes="member: 6788736">Understood, but there is zero reason for the DM in your campaign to refrain from using the 'gritty realism' rest variant in that campaign.At around 0-1 fight per day, and usually a week of no fighting every month or so, it would be (mechanically) much better resource recovery pacing for that campaign.You would be getting your Ki/ spell slots back for each encounter. The Paladin would need to ration his slots/smites for around half a dozen of them.DnD is a resource management game at its heart. The current iteration is based on a 'short rest' every 2 or so encounters, and a 'long rest' every 6 or so encounters.What form a 'short rest' or a 'long rest' take are up the DM. If your camapaign experiences any of the following issues;1) Fighters/ Warlocks are too weak2) Full casters/ barbarians/ paladins are too strong3) Encounters are not challenging enough4) PCs heal too fastThen ask yourself why you are not using the gritty realism rest variant? You can fix all those problems by simply messing with the rest rules.My personal campaign uses:Short rest (5 minutes long, but no more than once every 4 hours; happens automatically every 4 hours) - Spend up to 1/2 level in HD, recover all short rest resourcesLong rest (8 bours long, once every 24 hours) - Recover 1/2 your level in expended HD, spend unlimited HD, recover 1 expended spell slot of levels 1-5, and recover 1 expended spell slot of levels 6+ or 1 mystic arcanum.I like faster short rests for better story pacing and the removal of jarring 1 hour breaks 2-3 times per adventuring day, and I wanted to slow down healing and spell slot recovery on a long rest for the full casters, prompting them to be quite conservative with spell slot usage.I also reduced the number of barbarian rages per long rest by 1 and handed them out a fighting style to compensate.That hits the sweet spot for class and encounter balance for mine.</blockquote>

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