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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9170169" data-attributes="member: 6877472">You've been tasked with investigating goblin raids on local caravans.  You have an encounter with a goblin patrol, realizing that they must have a stronghold of some kind in the area, and that they have patrol groups wandering about looking for enemies...translation- you and your party.You only have so much time before someone realizes the patrol hasn't returned, which will put the goblins on high alert, and there's a chance to encounter other patrols.Do you take an hour to short rest in this instance, with the risk of another encounter, and making things harder for you up ahead?  Let's assume no.You manage to find a few entrances to what appears to be a cave system.  With some careful scouting, you find a lightly defended back entrance, and, by burning resources, take out the guards without them being able to raise an alert.But someone will be along to relieve them eventually.Do you take an hour to short rest in this instance, with the risk of another encounter, and making things harder for you up ahead?  Let's assume no.As you move through the narrow tunnels, you realize that any encounter that A) goes too long or B) makes too much noise, will have the entire complex alerted and actively hunting you down.  Your best bet is to take the complex chamber by chamber, quickly eliminating patrols.You find a barracks, and surprise some of the goblins.  Again, resources are expended to do so quickly.  You might be able to rest here, but you have no way of knowing when another goblin might show up to rest, or when these goblins were supposed to go on shift.Do you take an hour to short rest in this instance, with the risk of another encounter, and making things harder for you up ahead?  Let's assume no.Eventually, your luck runs out, and a goblin escapes a battle to warn the others.  With the goblins on full alert, large groups start actively searching for you.  You can no longer rest here at all.  Your choices are to flee to rest, and come back to find the goblins fully dug in and fortified, or push on, and hope you can cause significant enough damage to put an end to their raiding activities.You might say that this is a contrived scenario; I contend this is a fairly reasonable one, that matches many traditional published adventures.  It shows how "not taking a rest" isn't some selfish action on the part of long rest classes*, but a logical expectation of play.  Taking a rest during an adventure isn't always free, sometimes it comes with a cost.  Whether that cost is worth paying for the party so that someone can get back a Pact Slot or some ki, or their Action Surge is something that has to be decided on by the group.  Having your Sorcerer full up on Sorcery Points is great, but it might not be worth it in the long run.*And just to be clear, every class, whether they have short rest abilities or not, requires short rests.  Hit points are a resource that is expended on adventures, and everyone has them.  Recovering hit points requires the use of other resources.  Taking a short rest to spend some Hit Dice is vastly preferable to spending limited resources like healing potions or spell slots for all concerned.And the best healing resources, that are recovered on a short rest, still require that short rest to recharge (Healer Feat, Second Wind, the healing of a Mercy Monk, etc..).  If the players could, they would short rest after every fight.This is rarely possible, and even more rarely a good idea.</blockquote>

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