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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7328343" data-attributes="member: 1465">Sorry for getting into the thread late and not reading all of it before posting... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" />I agree that the "Slow Natural Healing" variant purpose is not that clear. It generally only means less HP available during the day. With the standard rules, you have a minimum of ~150% of your max HP per day (because of the rate of getting back half of your HD during a long rest). With the Slow Natural Healing variant you are guaranteed only a minimum of ~50% available (you get those HD back but not your actual lost HP). So yes, overall the game will be tougher unless you often have "empty" days with no encounters to go back to full HPs. But how that is different from having for example more monsters per encounters (or anything else than wears down your HP more) may be a matter of details.OTOT the "Gritty Realism" variant has primarily the purpose to play adventures with very sparse combat encounters, perhaps somewhat LotR-inspired. If you have stories with sparse encounters, then this leads to either the PCs using very little of their resources or otherwise going "nova" and beat all the encounters easily (the latter however carries the danger that an occasional second encounter on the same day can spell doom to the group). In such campaigns, it makes sense to turn hours into days and days into weeks. Nothing really changes in resource management except the narrative.If you use the "Gritty Realism" variant but do not change the rate of occurrence of the encounters, then it definitely gets very gritty, as the PCs are strongly motivated to avoid encounters as much as possible. This also makes the game more difficult for the players, so I am not sure if at the end this ends up a popular choice <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=";)" />When I first read the "Gritty Realism" variant, I thought that perhaps what they might have wanted is to grant to benefits of a long rest every 7 days, but with the long rest itself still taking a single night. This would have made the variant more usable because it doesn't require to actually take a break from the adventure... but from a narrative point of view would have been probably breaking suspension of disbelief.Probably, a middle ground could be found by allowing some partial recovery of resources, but this certainly leads to a more complex set of rules.I don't think it really works to apply the "Gritty Realism" variant rules to HP only but not on spellcasting, pretty much because of what you say here.</blockquote>

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