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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 6957840" data-attributes="member: 18333">At first, I didn't like 1 hour rests.  But after playing/DMing with them for a few years, I like them. There is definitely a tension and deliberateness to taking them. When rests were too short (4e 5 min rests) they became "standard operating procedure" after any moderately taxing encounter. But really, it doesn't matter what amount of time a short rest is if the emperor (funny, my phone auto corrected DM and made it emperor) sets up conditions for a short rest.  If it makes sense that the PC can get enough uninterrupted time to eat, drink, take a breather, bandage wounds, then the DM should allow for a short rest. I think 5e made a 1 hour short rest to emphesize that somewhat safe conditions needed to be met before the DM allows the rest to happen.  I think 20 min to an hour works for that purpose, whereas 5 min didn't.</blockquote>