Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8203234" data-attributes="member: 71699">The text is "If the rest is interrupted by a period 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 any benefit from it."Groups of posters on this forum have interpreted this in two different ways. Under one interpretation, it is 1 hour of interruption made up of any combination of walking, fighting, casting spells, or similar adventuring activity. Under the other interpretation it is interruption made up of 1 hour of walking, or fighting (any amount), or casting spells (any amount), or similar adventuring activity.Unfortunately, the literal text doesn't contain the wording that would be needed to disambiguate. Crawford offered the ruling that favoured the first interpretation, but that ruling has never made it into errata or published sage advice. It has proven very hard to reconcile the two views. On my assessment this is partly because for each group their interpretation suits their preferred playing style. The "any combination" group have long rests that essentially cannot be interrupted: giving players more control over rests. The "any amount" group have long rests that are easily interrupted: giving DMs more control over rests. Both groups see fatal flaws in the other group's approach.There have also been arguments over what wording stands given the least change made in order to disambiguate. It has been shown in other threads that it is identically efficient to change the wording to support either version. In the end, seeing they can appeal to the authority of one of the game's designers, the "any combination" group have historically been satisfied with their position; while seeing as "any combination" could include enough combat to advance from level 1 to 20 (a hundred encounters averaging 6 rounds of fighting each) or say 590 rounds of combat and 1 minute of walking, the "any amount" group have historically found it preposterous to agree with the "any combination" group. I am with the latter.If you have something novel to add to the debate that will be interesting to hear!</blockquote>

Verification