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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8388664" data-attributes="member: 71699">My hypothesis is that the designer who wrote it didn't find it ambiguous at time of writing. They never imagined anyone would believe it would take as much fighting as an adventurer might do in their entire career, to interrupt a rest. The true split is simple - are long rests in your campaign very easy, or very hard, to interrupt?When it came to offering advice, JC had a choice between making the game more crunchy and unforgiving (easily interrupted rests) or more casual and forgiving (hard to interrupt rests). Per 5e's overall philosophy, he rightly leaned into the latter.As to the words, the best case I've read is that a mixture of activities is intended. Such as 50 minutes of walking and 10 minutes of casting. The problem with that so far as the RAW goes is that there isn't anything there that says it has to be a mixture. The RAW allows equally 1 hour of walking, 1 hour of fighting, 1 hour of casting, if you want to read it that way. To my analysis the only way the RAW can make sense, based on what we know about how the game actually plays, is if the ambiguity was intended to be resolved the other way - 1 hour of walking, a fight, a spell cast.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8388664, member: 71699"] My hypothesis is that the designer who wrote it didn't find it ambiguous at time of writing. They never imagined anyone would believe it would take as much fighting as an adventurer might do in their [I]entire career[/I], to interrupt a rest. The true split is simple - are long rests in your campaign very easy, or very hard, to interrupt? When it came to offering advice, JC had a choice between making the game more crunchy and unforgiving (easily interrupted rests) or more casual and forgiving (hard to interrupt rests). Per 5e's overall philosophy, he rightly leaned into the latter. As to the words, the best case I've read is that a mixture of activities is intended. Such as 50 minutes of walking and 10 minutes of casting. The problem with that so far as the RAW goes is that there isn't anything there that says it has to be a mixture. The RAW allows equally 1 hour of walking, 1 hour of fighting, 1 hour of casting, if you want to read it that way. To my analysis the only way the RAW can make sense, based on what we know about how the game actually plays, is if the ambiguity was intended to be resolved the other way - 1 hour of walking, a fight, a spell cast. [/QUOTE]

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