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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7147880" data-attributes="member: 12731">The point is to acknowledge how different stories require different resting frequencies. When you trek through a desert, trying to find the next oasis, having 6-8 encounters a day is not appropriate. 6-8 encounters in total (the entire desert trek) might be more realistic, given the emptiness of arid sand and stone.And so this wilderness/travel adventure should be empowered to say you are not allowed any long rest at all (except by giving up and returning from whence you came).Then, the same party of heroes finally find the long-lost City of Sand in the middle of this desert. This adventure is an action-filled dungeon romp with lots of undead monsters and construct guardians, and so a long rest is definitely needed when they reach the City. But what's more, there's a lot of monsters in this dungeon, and the adventure recommends 5 minute short rests and 1 hour long rests, to keep up the action. This way the exact same adventurer (same world, same campaign, same PC) goes from &quot;not a long rest in a month&quot; to &quot;four long rests today, and the mummies keep pouring out of the catacombs&quot;.While you could ask for a DMG that allows this, a more realistic hope would be a PHB/DMG that simply says &quot;in the end, rest frequency is up to the adventure author&quot;. Hence us talking about this stuff being in the adventure, rather than the DMG <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7147880, member: 12731"] The point is to acknowledge how different stories require different resting frequencies. When you trek through a desert, trying to find the next oasis, having 6-8 encounters a day is not appropriate. 6-8 encounters [B]in total[/B] (the entire desert trek) might be more realistic, given the emptiness of arid sand and stone. And so this wilderness/travel adventure should be empowered to say you are [B]not allowed any long rest at all[/B] (except by giving up and returning from whence you came). Then, the same party of heroes finally find the long-lost City of Sand in the middle of this desert. This adventure is an action-filled dungeon romp with lots of undead monsters and construct guardians, and so a long rest is definitely needed when they reach the City. But what's more, there's a lot of monsters in this dungeon, and the adventure recommends [B]5 minute short rests and 1 hour long rests[/B], to keep up the action. This way the exact same adventurer (same world, same campaign, same PC) goes from "not a long rest in a month" to "four long rests today, and the mummies keep pouring out of the catacombs". While you could ask for a DMG that allows this, a more realistic hope would be a PHB/DMG that simply says "in the end, rest frequency is up to the adventure author". Hence us talking about this stuff being in the adventure, rather than the DMG :) [/QUOTE]

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