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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warmaster Horus" data-source="post: 7226340" data-attributes="member: 6785438">Not sure why I'd place cumbersome long rest requirements in Chult.  There are plenty of people who live there who get a long rest every night, after all.  Add in exhaustion options from travel and encumbrance, plus the possibility of encounters during a rest, plus environmentals like insects and it's already a tough location.  Smart groups will likely figure out ways to be comfortable - Leomund's Tiny Hut springs immediately to mind.To me the challenges will be things like navigation.  The party will be keeping track of their location based on the Player Map but I will be keeping track based on my map, based on their navigation rolls.  Barring a good Ranger in the group, it will be very likely that after a while the two will not match up...Then there's food & water.  I'll be tracking how the PCs are getting both.  Since it rains every day, potable water should be easy to gather.  Food will quickly spoil, however, unless stored in a protected manner (bag of holding or the like) - probably something like 10% a day after 5 days for typical rations.  So they'll need to find ways to gather food - usually a full day activity with a somewhat high DC for success.Disease will be an issue, too.  Though a good cleric or druid in the party pretty much eliminates that worry with Lesser Restoration.</blockquote>