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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6320551" data-attributes="member: 18">I'm glad to hear that, because that reflects my experience from the playtesting I did, but it's pretty worrying that the designer of the edition apparently disagrees. Of course, designers are surprisingly frequently wrong about their own designs! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Personally, it's important to have short rests be a fixed period, not a minimum-indefinite one because the latter is going to trigger not only my "metagame bullcrap" sensor, but worse, that of pretty much all my players. They're all hard-working people who are good at time management, so the moment they notice that you can rest for N period (default 1hr) and get X benefits, but if you rest longer, you don't gain any further benefits unless you magically transmute the game into another "game state" (so computer-game-y...) before resting again, they're going to be irked.Irked because we have metagame bullcrap disarmament in my games. As Umbran quoted Will Smith "My attitude is: Don't start nothin', won't BE nothin'". That's how we roll regarding metagame crap like this. I don't do it, they don't do it. If one side started doing it, the other would be completely within their rights to respond with some of their own.If you really couldn't chain short rests, if, as Mearls apparently said, they really broke the game, then 5E would be "firing the first shot" on my behalf here, and I wouldn't have a leg to stand on, ethically, to claim my metagame stuff was fine, but theirs wasn't.Also, a lot of the proposed solutions make sense if you have 1hr "short rests", but 1hr isn't a short rest. It's a bloody lunchbreak! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> All through 5E's playtesting and development, we were told that we could adjust the length of short rests - that 5 minutes and 1hr and anything in-between would be viable, playable, acceptable ways to handle it. So I've been assuming 5E could handle 5/10 minute short rests, rather than the PCs having a fraking picnic every time they need to bandage some wounds or take a breather! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />So here's to hoping you're right, and Mearls was either talking about an earlier version, or is wrong, or exaggerating (or didn't say it and is being misreported!). There's just no way I'm going to try to enforce some sort of computer-game-esque "game state change" deal to push a wedge between breaks. If they want to keep resting, fine. I'd rather house-rule specific abilities that cause a problem than turn my table into a table of "game state changes"!(What does still bug me, though, is that this absolutely wasn't a problem in the playtests, and seems to have been introduced entirely after them. None of the playtests had abilities which allowed you to always refill to a certain amount of HP with no resource cost other than time, and let's be real, time is only a costly resource sometimes in D&D, rather than all the time, that I recall, though maybe the Channel Divinity issue was there and I missed it in the morass of Cleric abilities. So why did they suddenly decide to redesign these abilities so that they did cause an issue?) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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