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<blockquote data-quote="pdzoch" data-source="post: 6957596" data-attributes="member: 80982">There was a <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?354386-Short-Rest-Poll" target="_blank">poll</a> on this a while back.&nbsp; My short rests are assumed to be at least 20 minutes long.&nbsp; One hour seems a bit long to be sitting idle in one location, especially during a dungeon crawl. As the DM, I control the pacing of the adventure, so there are natural breaks where a long and short rest can occur, and places where a short rest is simply not feasible.&nbsp; A party may attempt a short rest, and I suppose the 1-hour rule with random encounter chances come into play.&nbsp; I prefer a more natural interruption based on the story/campaign/adventure.&nbsp; A short rest could occur between encounters in a dungeon, but if the next room over heard the fight, they will come investigate out of impatience of waiting for the party to walk in; or if the next room over usually interacts with the current room and its occupants, they will walk in if it makes sense (checking on guard posts, delivering items, changing out personnel, stopping by on a break, etc);&nbsp; or if the next room over hears the bard's song of rest, it will arouse curiosity at least and someone will come investigate.&nbsp; I do not mind interrupting such attempts at the short rest because it was not expected in the first place.&nbsp; The pacing and planning of these short rests are important in adventure design.&nbsp; Otherwise, a player party may attempt to take a short rest after every encounter so they are &quot;charged up&quot; for every fight, which is too artificial for me for an effective storyline.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pdzoch, post: 6957596, member: 80982"] There was a [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?354386-Short-Rest-Poll"]poll[/URL] on this a while back. My short rests are assumed to be at least 20 minutes long. One hour seems a bit long to be sitting idle in one location, especially during a dungeon crawl. As the DM, I control the pacing of the adventure, so there are natural breaks where a long and short rest can occur, and places where a short rest is simply not feasible. A party may attempt a short rest, and I suppose the 1-hour rule with random encounter chances come into play. I prefer a more natural interruption based on the story/campaign/adventure. A short rest could occur between encounters in a dungeon, but if the next room over heard the fight, they will come investigate out of impatience of waiting for the party to walk in; or if the next room over usually interacts with the current room and its occupants, they will walk in if it makes sense (checking on guard posts, delivering items, changing out personnel, stopping by on a break, etc); or if the next room over hears the bard's song of rest, it will arouse curiosity at least and someone will come investigate. I do not mind interrupting such attempts at the short rest because it was not expected in the first place. The pacing and planning of these short rests are important in adventure design. Otherwise, a player party may attempt to take a short rest after every encounter so they are "charged up" for every fight, which is too artificial for me for an effective storyline. [/QUOTE]

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