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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nogray" data-source="post: 5958465" data-attributes="member: 28028">Thank you for the compliment. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I haven't had a refusal to rest come up, primarily due to encounter (short rest) powers. No one wants to start the next encounter with no encounter powers. Plus, the verisimilitude of catching a breather after a bout of intense combat syncs well with our expectations.If the party is pursuing a fleeing enemy (and that has come up), I think of it as the adrenaline keeping them going, and that can work for quite a while in the short term. Still, sooner or later (and more often sooner) a short rest is coming, as those encounter powers are usually key to the party strategy.If I had the issue really come up and circumstances forced it, I would likely start endurance checks at escalating difficulty and would use loss of surges and eventually loss of hit points equal to surge value (more precisely, equal to half bloodied value) as the penalty for failure. This has a little precedent in wilderness survival skill challenges and whatnot.Two big distinctions I would add, though, are these: (1) I would even enforce this for magical healing as well as non-magical healing, and (2) I would stop short of killing a character (leave them with no surges and just above or right at bloodied value) if it carried on long enough.[sblock="reasoning"]The reasoning for (1) is that those magically grown muscles are newly formed and tender. The hit point loss would be due to pain and muscle spasms. Similarly for the non-magically healed character, bleeding wounds do tend to clot on their own, given time. Also, though I know it's not always a high priority, I like the balance of magical and non-magical hit point recovery being mechanically similar, even if the flavor is quite different.The reasoning for (2) is just that the characters did survive the fight, and there isn't much reason to kill them just because they refuse to take a breather. Besides which, when they start suffering penalties for not resting, they will take the hint.[/sblock]What do you think?</blockquote>

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