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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashrym" data-source="post: 7840540" data-attributes="member: 6750235">I pointed out that all classes use a daily mechanic because that's tied to hit point and hit dice recovery.  What classes don't have hit dice and hit points?It throws it out, yes, but by not throwing that out too much and giving the advantage to different classes and different times gives them their moments to shine.  The key is varying it just enough to give everyone their solid experiences.That would give them goodwill with the caravan master or other NPC's as it impacts their reputation, especially since doing it there way doesn't prevent the daughter from being ritually sacrificed in the example.They know the girl was taken and needs rescued.  It makes a lot more sense she's at risk after being taken than she's safe.  And building sense of urgency is part of the DM role so yes, set the expectation in the narrative."You sleep at night."  Done.  <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=";)" />I also vary the number of encounters as seems appropriate.  The worst thing that happens is short rest and at-will abilities gain prominence over long rest abilities if I allow extra short rests.  That tends to be good for battle masters, monks, and warlocks; moderately useful for bards, druids, and clerics who focus on their short rest abilities more than their long rest; and largely irrelevant for rogues and barbarians.  As examples.That's arbitrarily denying the imperative.  Who's to say that a 3 month long ritual isn't 89 days complete if you want to simply decide there's no sense of urgency because the DM didn't create a sense of urgency?  A DM who gave the players that much time created the lack of need.  If the DM wants to create the need he or she isn't going to make the ritual take 3 months.Then they wouldn't be leaving town to hunt down dragons, vampires, and beholders.  PC's are heroic and face danger.  They don't deliberately blow their resources so they can take the afternoon off.  Deciding the character can just nova, rest, recycle, and repeat because of the rest mechanism is clearly a metagamist approach because it's deliberately attempting to leverage a game mechanic instead of roleplaying.Who's job is it to build that narrative?  If Bob the wizard hides in mordenkainen's magnificent mansion to take a rest and scry out the opposition (a common tactic I see in this type of discussion) then I'm going to add something into what he sees that entices him to act sooner as part of that scrying that makes sense within the context of the adventure.It's not.  The definition of a short rest is a period of downtime at least 1 hour long.  The definition of a long rest is a period of downtime at least 8 hours long.  Both have restrictions on activity with the long rest being more stringent.Periods of downtime are very much what DM's provide.  There aren't different types of downtime and there's no way for characters to have downtime that qualifies as a long rest that doesn't also qualify as a short rest about 20 hours sooner based on the 5MWD presumption.Making those mutually exclusive is house-ruling.  By the time a long rest would be completed several short rests and a lot of adventure can continue.Those definitions are on page 186 of the PHB.</blockquote>

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