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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9068182" data-attributes="member: 6704184">None of my arguments are anywhere in the vicinity of that. . Short rests alongside long rests and downtime (which should matter more and include an extended rest that is needed to get to 100% after a draining/challenging adventure) provide room for more types of abilities, more design freedom in terms of effects and power level compared to “everything must be balanced only for recharging on a long rest”, allow better pacing of the adventuring day (which is not narrative pacing, it’s literally just preventing PCs using 100% of thier power all at once, and then sleeping to do that again the next day), give players more choice and thus more agency in choosing and building characters, and in the adventuring day, and more besides. Meanwhile every downside you list is, as far as I can tell, hypothetical.</blockquote>