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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6960847" data-attributes="member: 6799649">No, you don't need to wait for the Designated Short Rest Hour to apply the bandages! You can apply the bandages as and when you like (not that bandages are actually required to regain hit dice, but even if they were!). But you only actually spend the hit dice at the end of a short rest.Yes, this does highlight the important issue, and it is what you say it is!You've been in a bar brawl in town, kicked their collective buts, and managed to disappear into the crowds before Jonny Law turns up to feel your collars. You meet up at your pre-determined emergency meeting point (another pub, of course), and after a swift pint (for appearance's sake) you mosey about town, looking at various sights, enjoying the day, but never actually declare to the DM that you are taking an Officially Designated Short Rest.We can say that the fight was strenuous, we might even suggest that the escape from the brawl pub to the meeting pub was strenuous, but nothing after that has been more strenuous than eating/drinking/bandaging/urinating. Looking round shops is not more strenuous. No character resources were expended (Ki points, Superiority Dice, Spell Slots) since the brawl.After a while, a PC could ask the DM if it's been an hour since they arrived at the meeting pub. If the DM says yes, and we know that they've had something to drink and had ample opportunities to urinate/snack/bandage, why wouldn't they get the benefits of a short rest? What have the PCs failed to do that would let them have the benefits?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 6960847, member: 6799649"] No, you don't need to wait for the Designated Short Rest Hour to apply the bandages! You can apply the bandages as and when you like (not that bandages are actually required to regain hit dice, but even if they were!). But you only actually spend the hit dice at the end of a short rest. Yes, this does highlight the important issue, and it is what you say it is! You've been in a bar brawl in town, kicked their collective buts, and managed to disappear into the crowds before Jonny Law turns up to feel your collars. You meet up at your pre-determined emergency meeting point (another pub, of course), and after a swift pint (for appearance's sake) you mosey about town, looking at various sights, enjoying the day, [I]but never actually declare to the DM that you are taking an Officially Designated Short Rest[/I]. We can say that the fight was strenuous, we might even suggest that the escape from the brawl pub to the meeting pub was strenuous, but nothing after that has been more strenuous than eating/drinking/bandaging/urinating. Looking round shops is not more strenuous. No character resources were expended (Ki points, Superiority Dice, Spell Slots) since the brawl. After a while, a PC could ask the DM if it's been an hour since they arrived at the meeting pub. If the DM says yes, and we know that they've had something to drink and had ample opportunities to urinate/snack/bandage, why wouldn't they get the benefits of a short rest? What have the PCs failed to do that would let them have the benefits? [/QUOTE]

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