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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8808648" data-attributes="member: 93670">You can't "start a short rest" because a "short rest" is the result of an interrupted long rest.[spoiler="Inspiration expert pg19"]INSPIRATION When you have Inspiration, you can expend it to give yourself Advantage on a d20 Test. You must decide to do so before rolling the die. GAINING INSPIRATION The main way a character gains Inspiration is by rolling a 20 for a d20 Test. The DM can also award Inspiration to a character who’s done something that is particularly heroic or amusing. ONLY ONE AT A TIME You can never have more than one instance of Inspiration. If something gives you Inspiration and you already have it, you can give Inspiration to a player character in your group who lacks it. LOSING INSPIRATION If you still have Inspiration when you start a Long Rest, you lose that Inspiration. [/spoiler]Starting a long rest causes a loss of inspiration[spoiler="Long Rest expert pg19/20"]LONG REST A Long Rest is a period of extended downtime—at least 8 hours long—during which a creature sleeps for at least 6 hours and performs no more than 2 hours of light activity, such as reading, talking, eating, or standing watch. BENEFITS OF THE REST At the end of a Long Rest, a creature regains all lost Hit Points. The creature also regains spent Hit Dice, up to half of the creature’s total number of them (round down; minimum of one die). A creature can’t benefit from more than one Long Rest in a 24-hour period, and a creature must have at least 1 Hit Point at the start of the rest to gain its benefits. INTERRUPTING THE REST If a Long Rest is interrupted by combat or by 1 hour of walking, casting Spells, or similar activity, the rest confers no benefit and must be restarted; however, if the rest was at least 1 hour long before the interruption, the creature gains the benefits of a Short Rest. [/spoiler]The only way to get a short rest is to start a long rest that gets interrupted and the failover to a short rest may have been an intentional choice because it avoids conflicting with the can't benefit from more than one long rest in 24 hours.</blockquote>

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