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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6782082" data-attributes="member: 996">Yep.  It's worked well for me before, in both 5e and 4e.  You can change the time scale - long rest is a week, short rest is overnight - and/or the requirements (long rests only in safe/friendly settlements, only short rests in hostile wilderness; only short rests while traveling at sea, long rests require you make port; etc) - to fit the mechanics to the pacing of your story.  With 5e you still need a large number of encounters to balance classes, encounters, and attrition...  There really is no good way to scale encounters for single-encounter days in 5e.  You can just ratchet it up enough - higher level monsters, outnumbering the party, etc - to make the encounter dangerous, but  the result can be deadlier or more of a slog than intended, or even anti-climactic, and that's just the encounter.  Class balance can't be restored that way, and attrition is gone as a challenge.With a one-shot and no 'healer' in the party, though, I think a short-rests-only adventure, but with short rests between each encounter could work out.  Short rests allow HD to be spent, so the hp/resource attrition element comes in and the need for a healer is lessened.  Even though it's only half a standard 'day' worth of encounters, there's still some pressure on daily resources, and classes that get short-rest re-charges receive a boost to help make up for the boost that gives long-rest-recharge classes who normally have to stretch their resources over 6-8 encounters instead of only 4.   Purely at-will characters aren't going to get to shine much in that scenario, but it's still a much better set-up than long rests between every encounter.</blockquote>

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