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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painted_klown" data-source="post: 6452062" data-attributes="member: 6785485">While we are hashing out rules, and how you like to run them, I am completely lost on how you would handle the passage of time as a DM. From Players Basic rules version 0.2, page 63/115:TimeIn situations where keeping track of the passage oftime is important, the DM determines the time a taskrequires. The DM might use a different time scaledepending on the context of the situation at hand. Ina dungeon environment, the adventurers’ movementhappens on a scale of minutes. It takes them about aminute to creep down a long hallway, another minuteto check for traps on the door at the end of the hall, anda good ten minutes to search the chamber beyond foranything interesting or valuable.In a city or wilderness, a scale of hours is often moreappropriate. Adventurers eager to reach the lonely towerat the heart of the forest hurry across those fifteen milesin just under four hours’ time.For long journeys, a scale of days works best.Following the road from Baldur’s Gate to Waterdeep, theadventurers spend four uneventful days before a goblinambush interrupts their journey.In combat and other fast-paced situations, the gamerelies on rounds, a 6-second span of time describedin chapter 9.This is from page 67/115:Short RestA short rest is a period of downtime, at least 1 hour long,during which a character does nothing more strenuousthan eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds.A character can spend one or more Hit Dice at the endof a short rest, up to the character’s maximum numberof Hit Dice, which is equal to the character’s level. Foreach Hit Die spent in this way, the player rolls the dieand adds the character’s Constitution modifier to it. Thecharacter regains hit points equal to the total. The playercan decide to spend an additional Hit Die after each roll.A character regains some spent Hit Dice upon finishinga long rest, as explained below.Long RestA long rest is a period of extended downtime, at least 8hours long, during which a character sleeps or performslight activity: reading, talking, eating, or standing watchfor no more than 2 hours. If the rest is interrupted by aperiod of strenuous activity—at least 1 hour of walking,fighting, casting spells, or similar adventuring activity—the characters must begin the rest again to gain anybenefit from it.At the end of a long rest, a character regains all losthit points. The character also regains spent Hit Dice, upto a number of dice equal to half of the character’s totalnumber of them (minimum of one die). For example, if acharacter has eight Hit Dice, he or she can regain fourspent Hit Dice upon finishing a long rest.A character can’t benefit from more than one long restin a 24-hour period, and a character must have at least1 hit point at the start of the rest to gain its benefits.Then, we have the between adventure times, and downtime activities time as well (pages 67-68/115).Clearly, these aren't played out in real time, and having no idea how it should be, as the DM, do you simply get to say something along the lines of "Ok all, you have defeated the evil ruler of castle Charlock, now you all have 8 hrs to rest, partake in downtime activities, etc"Is it solely up to the DM to tell the players that they have a "short" rest period vs a "long" rest period?  Are these rest period activities played out as a gaming session in between campaigns? What if you have your party on a long trek that would take multiple days? Do you just say, after walking for a full day, with no encounters and getting a lot of ground covered, the party decides to set up camp for the night." I assume during this "camping time" the PCs will be able to heal up as stated by the long rest rules?Sorry for the n00b questions, but I am lost when it comes to passage of time. If this is the wrong place to be asking these questions, please let me know and I will edit my posts, and ask these elsewhere.</blockquote>

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