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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 7168253" data-attributes="member: 6778044">What I mean by casual players are the ones that pick up the latest adventure or AP when they get a chance and running through it. I think they outnumber the DMs writing their own campaigns, and folks like us that take obsessiveness to new heights. (Guilty on many levels).Good point.I'll have to look at RAW again. I remember the 1 hour short, and 8 hours long (1/day). And I remember the short rest (no limit) but a recommendation of 2-3 between long. Vague, or at least not rigid. Is it no limit, or a limit of 2 to 3? That's what I was referring to. I also seem to remember a lot of suggestions in threads to limiting short rests to 2/day, 3/day, whatever. Which might be what's giving me the impression that the rules for frequency is vague.That's me - don't care about balance. Not entirely. I actually care more about disassociated mechanics, and rules that interfere within the setting. I didn't really care how frequently people took a short rest to regain abilities. But it really bothered me that they had to rest for an hour. So that was an easy fix, it's just part of the after-combat routine for 5-10 minutes, binding wounds, catching your breath, etc.I do prefer to tie the recovery of abilities to time, fatigue, and rest/sleep. Magical abilities simply take time to recover and refocus magical energies. Mundane abilities I usually change. I hated the Battle Master mechanics, with maneuvers that could be used only a limited amount of time. I prefer a risk/reward design for the abilities themselves. While I get the issues people have with regard resource management and such with abilities when you have fewer encounters than recommended, it just never occurred to me that it was a problem until I saw people complaining about it. My expectation is that they'll have their short rest abilities at pretty much every encounter. And the long rest ability once/day. Their management of them on a long journey for example is still something the players have to deal with, because they have no idea whether they'll have only one encounter or seven in that day. And for that matter, they have to deal with the night too. Also, as I've stated somewhere earlier in the thread, I tend to expect wilderness encounters to be more challenging in my campaign. Not always, but again, that leaves the PCs guessing.In my campaigns, people rest when you'd expect people to rest. Of course, I may have taken the "rule" in the DMG that people had to rest farther, recognizing that pushing horses too long is problematic, the need for food and water, and just trying to maintain a regular pace in the day of an adventurer. I've spelled that out a bit more for the new 5e players who might be familiar with this "problem" today.That's my recollection as well. Combined with the many editorials by Gary and others. I ate up that stuff back in the day.</blockquote>

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