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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7120916" data-attributes="member: 20564">If I can make a suggestion, I think you're following the same logic that an out-of-game resource recovery balance needs to be tied to an in-game event.  Yes, narratively that is the easiest.  But it also introduces issues that time allowed can dictate gaming needs (and therefore the opposite - gaming needs may not dictate your narrative).13th Age is a d20 OGL very similar to 5e in philosophy though it came out before it.  They are closer to the 4e resource recovery of encounter and everything, but that's not a large stretch for 5e.Encounter is obvious - one use per encounter.  No need to worry about scheduling short rests or not between.But the "recover all" is called a full-heal-up and happens every four combat encounters.  (Though a DM can give ti quicker if they have been throwing particularly tough/draining encounters.)  It is fully detached from an in-game event.So a three week journey across a tundra with an encounter every handful of days might be a single full-heal-up.  You don't have to worry like in 5e of trying to design an encounter where your full-rest-recovery folks can nova and that needs to balance your sword-swingers a-swinging.On the other hand, half way through the day of a dungeon might be a full-heal-up, and another that evening.Now, the DM has the freedom and responsibility to make this make sense in the narrative.  It could be with a luxurious rest.  Or drinking from the magic fountain they found in the dungeon.  Or NOT during a insect-biting night in the jungle with lions coughing every once in a while in the near distance.Oh, and the players can always take one early if they can justify it, but take a campaign setback in doing so.  Maybe the villagers they are trying to rescue end up with turned into a vampire.  Or the cultists have time to complete a ritual and summon the first of the demons.  Or the big bad leaves and now they have to chase him once they figure that out.  Whatever.</blockquote>

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