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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashrym" data-source="post: 7842411" data-attributes="member: 6750235">My point is that spells wouldn't drive a 5MWD, which is what I was getting from your comments.  Hit point recovery from natural healing is so strong by default that it would drive the same concept.More like 4-10, 6-12, 8-14+; generally higher levels can handle longer days for those daily resources.  It's never contrived, however; contrivance is circumstances allowing for the 5MWD that have removed the sense of urgency.  The encounters follow a natural break in activity as narrated through the plot.  <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=";)" />Any yes, hit dice will keep them going a long time.  There's a lot of healing in the hit dice and more available in various short rest mechanics.Resting isn't.  Choosing to rest prematurely by players to leverage the game mechanics associated with resting is.Resting itself is part of the sleep cycle and expanded on in XGtE.  Normal non-meta would be making camp as nightfall approaches and characters thinking "this is going to be a long day" when infiltrating the enemy stronghold the next morning.  No one thinks "I can make this a short day by using all my best resources because I can just ignore the rest of the day and rest 20 hours, and ignoring that time will have no negative impact because of my choices".Resting to recharge is obviously a player meta-game strategy as opposed to roleplaying.  You've tried to rationalize it, but in the end we've got characters who are clearly aware bad things can happen while they wait and know they have hours of time to prevent it; but choose not to conserve resources because the players are relying on the long rest game mechanic for the 5MWD premise. Trying that still results in the short rest mechanic hitting long before the long rest would and enables further adventuring.</blockquote>

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