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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7272782" data-attributes="member: 1465">I think the words "when you finish a long rest" are the same for changing your list and for regaining spell slots. IMHO the RAI is that just after waking up or soon enough anyway, you prepare your spells list. If you want to change it, you spend the required time, if you keep it the same as yesterday you don't need to spend the time.It normally doesn't matter how long exactly did you rest/sleep. It probably says somewhere that 8 hours is the minimum anyway, but it doesn't even need to be 100% sleep, it could be some hours of sleep and some other hours awake but not doing something too stressful. Fighting and spellcasting counts as stressful, but it could even be argued that preparing a different list of spells doesn't, and it's therefore fine to combine its time to the 8 hours of long rest. Again, 99% of the times it doesn't really matter... just call the night off and refresh your prepared list at the end of it / first thing in the morning. Delaying spells preparations however is explicitly called out in this edition, while it was allowed in 3e.As for the last bullet, YMMV because both getting your spells slots back and changing the list happen after the long rest, but the first takes no time (explicitly) while the second does. So there might be a rare situation where you literally just woke up, and the DM considers your long rest finished (spell slots regained), but then throws an encounter just before you have time to change your list. Should you be allowed a second chance to change the list after the encounter? There is no official answer yet, so any ruling is correct.</blockquote>

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