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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6658049" data-attributes="member: 6787650">It should also be noted that removing short/long rest healing has a large effect on the monster ecology. Apex predators like say Purple Worms can do pretty much whatever they want under the short rest regime; if the Purple Worm decides to eat an elephant, it can pretty much eat an elephant, even if it takes 109 points of damage from the other elephants in the process. Remove easy healing and suddenly predators have to be much more cautious in their behavior; if healing 109 points of damage from elephants takes the better part of a month to heal from, even a purple worm is probably going to seek easier prey. (Maybe.) That could mean that it's more eager to attack adventuring parties, because they's not elephants; or less, because they aren't cows.In short, as unusual as short rest healing per RAW is, it has salutary effects on the monster ecology and so I've grown to kind of like it. I just take it as a given that all D&amp;D creatures are incredibly resilient compared to their Earthly counterparts. Maybe the Predecessors spliced a bit of Troll bloodline into everyone?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6658049, member: 6787650"] It should also be noted that removing short/long rest healing has a large effect on the monster ecology. Apex predators like say Purple Worms can do pretty much whatever they want under the short rest regime; if the Purple Worm decides to eat an elephant, it can pretty much eat an elephant, even if it takes 109 points of damage from the other elephants in the process. Remove easy healing and suddenly predators have to be much more cautious in their behavior; if healing 109 points of damage from elephants takes the better part of a month to heal from, even a purple worm is probably going to seek easier prey. (Maybe.) That could mean that it's more eager to attack adventuring parties, because they's not elephants; or less, because they aren't cows. In short, as unusual as short rest healing per RAW is, it has salutary effects on the monster ecology and so I've grown to kind of like it. I just take it as a given that all D&D creatures are incredibly resilient compared to their Earthly counterparts. Maybe the Predecessors spliced a bit of Troll bloodline into everyone? [/QUOTE]

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