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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7839409" data-attributes="member: 996">That's actually my preference.  Some situations - say you're raiding an enemy stronghold and you're highly motivated to secure some key objective - a short rest might be just catching your breath between encounters, and a long rest is out of the question.  Others - long sea voyage, since I've used it a lot - short rest is anything from an hour to a few days, it doesn't matter because encounters are days if not weeks apart, but age-of-sail voyages are a hardship, even the best supplied ship gets you some malnutrition going, for just one instance, so long rests are restricted to putting into port of foraging on a pleasant island with fresh water.  All sorts of room in-between for scenarios with very different pacing, and different criteria for 'rest' that make sense in their context.But whether that's fiction-driven or rationalization-of-mechanics-driven, you're still stuck with the need to get a certain net pacing of encounters (or other stress on resources) between rests, because of the game's design.</blockquote>