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<blockquote data-quote="Pedantic" data-source="post: 9170996" data-attributes="member: 6690965">The most interesting take on resting I've seen was a matter of adventure design, not systems. <a href="https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/261859/Petals-and-Thorns-Strangers-in-Ramshorn-5e" target="_blank">Strangers in Ramshorn</a> has a timeline of events based on a series of threats and factions surrounding a small border town. It uses a modified gritty resting system, where players must make it back to Ramshorn and take a week of downtime to recover, then uses that time to throw random town events/rumors and so on at them as a roleplaying experience. Every time they take a week off, the threats advance along a timeline, the spiders in the forest come back in larger numbers and kill off the normal animal encounters, the skeletons in the crypt multiply and expand, the bandits will raid after a certain point if not handled, the shop will stop getting equipment shipments if the goblins harassing the caravans aren't cowed, etc.Deciding to stop vs. press on was an interesting decision, players wanted to continue at lower health/resources to try and slog through one more problem and so on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pedantic, post: 9170996, member: 6690965"] The most interesting take on resting I've seen was a matter of adventure design, not systems. [URL='https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/261859/Petals-and-Thorns-Strangers-in-Ramshorn-5e']Strangers in Ramshorn[/URL] has a timeline of events based on a series of threats and factions surrounding a small border town. It uses a modified gritty resting system, where players must make it back to Ramshorn and take a week of downtime to recover, then uses that time to throw random town events/rumors and so on at them as a roleplaying experience. Every time they take a week off, the threats advance along a timeline, the spiders in the forest come back in larger numbers and kill off the normal animal encounters, the skeletons in the crypt multiply and expand, the bandits will raid after a certain point if not handled, the shop will stop getting equipment shipments if the goblins harassing the caravans aren't cowed, etc. Deciding to stop vs. press on was an interesting decision, players wanted to continue at lower health/resources to try and slog through one more problem and so on. [/QUOTE]

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