NEW Long Rest Rules, DM Tips, & Homebrew for Rest in D&D 5e 

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The last variant just inspired me... gonna start reducing Hit Die now when my players get absolutely thrashed. It's a good way to keep the dangerous feel without being too punishing... i love it

I stole the PF2e long-rest healing rule: PCs regain con mod (minimum of 1) x level HP. The result was that the players started using HD for the first time and started to quaff those potions they'd been hoarding for the entire campaign!

If you have players long resting in the middle of the dungeon you A) have a patrol spot them and bring the entire dungeon to the one room they are in B) Restock the dungeon with new monsters C) enemies take everything valuable there is and just exit, leave the dungeon empty

The "magically" recovering hit points on a long rest is a problem of narration, I think. A long rest doesn't exclusively have to be sleeping, in fact, I think the official rules even say that it's light activity, conversation, etc. Part of that can be binding and caring for their wounds and using whatever magical abilities they have to heal up. Even if they don't have spell slots left, or even if no one has healing, I kind of conceptualize it as easy, cantrip-like magic. Maybe they can't cast healing spells, but they can use weak, time-consuming magic to slowly stitch wounds closed, mend bones, etc. You also don't have to think of loss of hit points as injuries. Hit points can also be conceived of as a measurement of luck, armor integrity, etc. So almost up until you're knocked out, you're not necessarily taking physical injuries.

Playing with the idea of making all healing temporary hit points, but it's max, or using the other person's hit dice when you heal them. Keeps the pop up and down from death over and over to a minimum

Really love your channel man! I've been using your resting rules but I've added the extra requirement of healers kits in order to bandage up and get those hit dice to heal. This way, they run the risk of running out of kits and not being able to heal without magic.

Wow I have been trying to come up with a better way to do long and short rests. This came out at a very convenient time!

getting ready to run a new game with my group.. doing our first in person session after years of playing online. You're videos have been SO helpful! THANK YOU SIR

I love this approach to Long Rests. Much of 5E is fuzzy around the edges. While it was presumably made that way in order to allow for DM/table variance, it oft feels somewhat unfinished. This approach to Long Rests adds much more nuance to a somewhat bland, awkward rule. I love it. I've been playing and running 5E for years, and this looks like the best approach I've seen. I'll definitely consider using this. Thanks for the convenient links to your site. I like to support creators, and appreciate when they make it easy. 👍🏻

Thank you Dungeon Coach! This is exactly what I needed. I saw your post on Facebook but wasn’t able to comment there. Thank you for the excellent content!

The main problem I have with rests in the game is tying them to the recovery of class abilities. They have the solution in the game with the description of magical items. There are several that recharge at dawn. I do the same thing. Abilities that recover at long rest are now recoverable once the sun breaks the horizon. Therefore long rests only serve to recover exhaustion. For short rests, I don't really have a set time. I don't tend to think in hours but in scenes and beats. If you can narrate an entire scene or lose an action beat you can take a short rest. During this time though the opposition isn't idle. As a general rule of thumb, I add a complication to up the difficulty of the next encounter as the narrative price for taking a short rest in the middle of an adventure. For example, the town guard has time to round up a posse, pitch is floated on the moat and set ablaze, or the wizard has enough time to lay down a ritual or two to discourage further intrusions.

Great content Coach! I find that I can pull at least one thing, often much more, from each video you put out. I want to use all the things but I also have to make sure I don't overdo it.

I just ordered your book. I can't wait to see it. Keep up the great work. Wishing you much success. ❤️

After your video a couple months ago about alternate armor rules, I decided to try a variant of my own with the campaign I recently started. In this case, just the idea that resting in a safe town should be different from resting out in wilderness sounds so obvious that I feel like I have to change something about resting. Some of your suggestions go too far for me, but I love the way they inspire me to rethink rules I've taken for granted.

We combined the rule of limited hit dice with a 'lingering injuries' homebrew rule, which makes the party actually feel wounded after a big fight, though barely so in an easy fight. The lingering injuries are gained by rolling on various tables, depending on whatever damage type knocked them down to/past 0 hit points. This makes it feel quite realistic for us. Even if you regain all hit points, your ribs will still be broken until you take a few days rest or get it healed by magic.

Good stuff Coach! Our table has been using Kibblestasty's Camp Actions ruleset for our long rests. Special actions you take during the long rest to make long rests more than keeping watch.

Really helped me understand the PDF better. Thanx coach!

Yesssssss!!!! Can't wait to use this system!!!

You have talked about this system before and I have been using it at my tables. I use 30 min for short rest single exhaustion over a night's rest double exhaustion removal on a full rest. I also do the same with sticky death save failures (drop 1 after a night's rest, drop 2 after a full rest). It helps to runs overland travel and dungeons and encourages players to get to towns.

All great ideas, Coach! Definitely love that you mentioned the “remove healing back to max hp after completing a long rest” part. Ive already done this in my games and it’s a critical change if you play 5e.

When we started playing 5e (having played mostly other, not related to DnD, tabletop roleplaying games) it was one of the first changes we made, removing the long rests full heal and restricting it to down time in civilization and non-threatening situations, and while out in the wilderness, in a dungeon, being stressed and chased through town, they have to rely on their hit dice, regaining them as per usual. While more variation starts adding complexity I do like the suggestions, and depending on the theme and tone there's a lot there that can support different variations of stories, also the return of old-school negative levels but through degrading hit dice are a nice way to reimplement old thematic monster powers and make hit dice a more referenced resource.

So many things about this game promote creativity, but the long rest system does not. These are great thoughts to help. Thumbs up here.

Hey coach I have an idea for a varient rule: As a supplementary thing to this, add the ritual tag to cure wounds. This way a party cleric could repeatedly cast cure wounds at 1st level even if the party has no spell slots. This causes the party to feel like they are bring healed by the healer instead of natural processes and makes things feel SIGNIFICANTLY better. It also makes the party healer a lot more appreciated. It also causes situations where if the party is super hurt the cleric might have to give up their short rest to cast cure wounds. Which is super interesting since thats only one cast with a 10 min short rest (or 3 casts if its 30 min)

One homebrew rule I have been tinkering with is allowing players to spend one of their unused Hit Die and add it to their Death Saving Throws. It makes Hit Die management feel slightly more useful in my opinion, so the Erosion idea you presented seems delightfully evil to implement and see how things go.

I've implemented a safe-place long rest system in my game. The party can only gain the benefits of a long rest in a safe location like an inn or town or other very safe location. This way I can stretch the adventuring day mechanics over days and weeks before giving the full rest. Hit dice are being used more often and still only recover half of a level per long rest so at least two days would be needed for a full recovery. I also have implemented a camping system where each character has a job for a successful camp night (location, setup, resources, and sentry) with successful total checks (like a skill challenge) meaning nothing happened, exceeding regains a spent hit die, and excessive failure loses hit die. After which, if they have no hit dice to lose they gain an equal number of points of exhaustion. They've become more resourceful and are role-playing survival more.

only two short rests per 24hrs: Warlocks, Rune knights, Battle masters: how dare you!

I'm tougher when it comes to natural healing (coming from AD&D). Players gain only 1 HP per hit dice spent on a short rest. A long rest resets hit dice but does not grant full HP; though they can roll 1 hit dice for free and gain whatever they roll divided by two, rounded up. Sometimes they only roll a 1 anyway..."dems the breaks". This may seem harsh to some, but compared to AD&D, this is a treat. My group prefers a grittier, harsher play. We also have HP level caps too.

I went and made an in-story reason why you get a full heal from a night’s sleep, so it could at least have a reason why.

I love this idea!

This reminded me a lot of Adventures of Middle Earth 5e rules. I like it!

This is actually a very interesting subject for me. My personal method is similar. I have short, long and full rests. Full rests will fully regen all hp and slots etc. But it needs to be in a bed, in safety. Long rests work like DC says, but I also add food requirements. You are going to need someone who can cook. So if you eat good cooked hot food you're going to regen more than if you just eat cold rations. So I encourage players to take otherwise useless feats like chef or gourmand. It now becomes essential for long rests, as I let them get max hit die if they have food and roll if they only have rations. This is also influenced by safety. So spells like tiny hut become useful as it too influences long rests. If my players spend the night cold and without any form of safety, I make them roll constitution for exhaustion.

I don't know if there is any subtil / cryptic message with the miniature. I have for long tried to homebrew a lot of things before I discovered the Dark Eye (which the miniature is about). TDE solve really all the issue most player could have in a fantasy setting. Mostly everything is covered. The resting system, if we can call it asis, does not suffer the issues that DnD can have. I mean, it feels like you are trying to tell people to play this game, without mentioning it. I think it is a coincidence but still, looks so accurate 😂

I know I am way behind. I just started playing D&D again, last time played in 1998, yikes! But I am back. To say the least a LOT has changed in this time. This is an awesome way to deal with healing. I was kind of confused that all HP is given back for just sleeping. I am definitely going to use your system.

Love the rest system you've come up with. My 10 minute rest is a Quick Rest and the characters can use ONE hit die and recover ONE instance of a class feature they recover on a short rest (they have to choose which one)

There’s an optional rule that says you can only use hit dice with a healing kit, I think it’s in the DMG and is called “Natural Healing” or something like that.

My house rules are similar but a little different. Quick Rest (10 min) - no ability recovery. Can spend 1 hit die. Short rest (1 hour) - RAW Long Rest (8 hours) - hit die to recover. Recover 1/2 hit dice at the end of the rest. Recover 1 level of exhaustion. Quality Rest (a number of days = levels of exhaustion ÷ 2 round down min of 1) - The players must be safe, comfortable, and well fed. Full recovery and remove all levels of exhaustion. Advantage on any ongoing saves such as disease.

I do my game more hardcore short is 8 hours, and a full is a week (an has to be taken somewhere with a safe place with a bed )

I wanted to do something like this, but was worried that I didn't understand the system well enough yet. This makes me feel like maybe I could do something similar.

Yay a good old massive home brew video. Missed it.

Not getting a full heal on a Long Rest (but getting back all your HD), is a Variant Rule in the DMG. I tried this for a bit, but it made my players more skittish about taking risks, and I didn't feel like it added anything to the game, but more bookkeeping. I Do like the option of getting Max Rolls for HD spent during Long Rests though...

I've been doing a version of your rest system for almost a month now and it's been working great: 1. Short rest (2 per day limit) - I'm not being strict with the 1 hour thing, but I find it easier to track time. Time of day plays a huge role in d&d for me, so I like to divide an adventuring day in 1 hour sections. 2 . Long rest (6-8 hours) - My players are very new to the game (and young) so I've kept the full heal and recharge. The players don't really need to sleep in long rests but depending on where they are they do need to keep watch. They nap, eat, rest. There's also a 5 Long Rests limit before they gain one level of exhaustion, but I told them: "if you can make your long rest as safe/comfortable as a full rest, it will you the benefits of a full rest.) 3. Full rest (Minimum 8 hours) - This can only be done in safe and comfortable places, like inns, taverns, homes. It requires the players to have a meal and time to calm down and attend to their wounds. They receive full HP + a bonus (you choose the dice, I'm doing a d10 because again, my players are very new). Full resting also resets the '5 long rests before exhaustion'. So far the full rest has influenced a lot the decision making in the game, with players choosing to walk a couple of hours into the night to reach the town instead of camping - and that can lead to great moments.

My players are doing an Amazing race type of campaign at the moment. Some of these variants would have been really helpful, next time. Thanks for these videos.

I have been running RoTF with my group recently. I decided to change long and short rests so that the only way that you can recover hit points (other than magical healing) is to spend hit dice. I limited the maximum number of hit dice that they can spend during a short rest to half Thier level rounded down. I also allowed them to regain all spent hit dice at the end of a long rest. I really like the idea of allowing the party to regain half of Thier spent hit dice in the middle of the long rest, and the other half at the end. I think that could solve the problem (although it hasn't cropped up yet) of spending all of your hit dice on short rests (1 hour) and then not gaining any back on a long rest (8 hours) which would feel pretty odd. I left the rest periods the same, along with the time you need to spend sleeping, (have a party of 8 so they can take watch in pairs if they want to)

So, what I like to do is role play that the playable races are super human, so people have wolverine like healing factors with wounds rapidly knitting themselves back together when you take a short rest. When you run out of hit dice it represents your healing factor reaching its limits.

This gives me the idea of instead pf the normal long rest players can a set of dice equal to their proficiency bonus to spend per long rest along with their unspent hit die. That way they aren't too reliant on hit dice recovery and would spend multiple long rest to try and recover them.

The way I run long rests is that for every long rest, you regain your constitution score hp back. I got the idea from cyberpunk red.

So this got me thinking. What about a short rest being 10 minute per HD used instead? I’m more injured so I need a longer rest type thing.

Something I've been toying with as an idea for the rest system in hostile territory: Short Rest, Short Rest refresh abilities and spell slots take 30 minutes of rest to come back, for every 5 mins of resting (which can only include resting/tending wounds) you can roll 1 hit die, it would be a good idea to have someone be lookout and the person on lookout can't roll a hit die for that 5 minute slot so rotating out lookouts while people tend to their wounds needs to be thought about. Long Rest, this takes 10 hours (8 hours rest, 2 hours watch, so if you have methods where watch isn't needed 8 only), Long Rest refresh abilities and spell slots come back, you reduce exhaustion by 1 point to a minimum of 2 (if you have 1 or 2 points those don't go away without resting in a settlement), you roll half your max hit die and that's the health you regain from resting (these are not deducted from your pool), you gain back half your hit die that were spent prior to the rest.

An idea regarding your temporary hit points after a safe rest mechanic - tie the buff to resting conditions. Modest gets 1d4, Comfortable gets 2d4, Wealthy gets 3d4, and Aristocratic gets 4d4. Want to be a hobo and sleep on the ground for free? Nada. I already tie recovering from Exhaustion to resting conditions, and this would give characters another reason to part with their well-pinched coin and actually care about the quality of accommodations and life-style.

I'm definitely gonna use some of those. I am currently DMing a game where my players ARE the bandits. And it's kinda murderhobo-y so there is a lot of combat. But they always just run back to their cave and take a long rest. So making them have to spend hitdice in a long rest would probably slow them down a bit and make them have to think before they attack anything they see

I used a simple system, may help: 1 night of long rest recovers 1/2 of Max HP, so 2 days of long rest without combat regenerates full HP. I think this works in towns because they can spend at least one day rol playing, making downtime activities, easy sidequests and a little exploration It also works in travelling because it makes it more challenging without been ultra deadly

Short rests were 5 minutes in 4th edition and it definitely felt better!

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(10:00) - Adjust Rests for PC's : When I DM, rest come at natural story break points. After they have completed a quest and returned to the city, or during the evening on a long journey (when they have had encounters - a '3 day travel' to the next city with no encounters... is just 'travel' time and you arrive at the city. No need to 'take a short/long rest' the party should be 'ready to go' all topped off. Sometimes I keep the game running and running and running... eventually the players say they are low on resources and "need" a rest. That is when you can give the players the chance to regain resources (as long as it is in a 'safe-ish' place. But do they get a Long rest? or a Short one. That depends on the situation. They find themselves in the forest just outside the Ruins they explored and are getting ready to travel back to the city in the morning? That may be a long rest (or the forest still having dangers, they only get a short rest and need to 'push on' just a little further before getting a long rest... RISKS?) I like using the 'Story' of the game and the feel of the Characters to help determine when and IF the party gets a rest (and which type). Obviously when in a City or Leveling up, a long rest happens. But it depends on the theme and style of the game you are running helps determine when and how often rest happen. (12:52) - Long Rest in dungeons : Why would you let your players take a 'long rest' in a dungeon? Is your dungeon too hard? is it too long ? Are you (as a DM) just letting them take it because they dumped all their resources on the last (one?) combat knowing you will be lenient and give them all their stuff back ? Luke at 'theDMLair' has a great idea about letting parties taking 'long rests' in dungeons. Often times there are patrols, and they will come across previous combats, or even the group 'sleeping'. The patrols go back to the BBEG and notify that there are 'intruders'. So now while the party sleeps, the Dungeon resets as the BBEG calls in reinforcements, or beefs up security making up coming encounters more difficult. So as a DM, I would take a look at the reasons behind why a long rest is 'needed' in a dungeon. Then you can adjust and use the best tactics to address the issue: Make the dungeon smaller, don't allow the players to dump everything in each combat - they need to learn to ration out their resources, etc. (15:50) - Hit Dice Erosion : Another alternative (or additive) feature you could implement is based on Damage taken. If in combat you receive a blow that is 1/2 your max HP in one hit, then you lose a Hit Die. Your body goes into system shock and now you can't use all the bodies natural recuperating abilities and need to get a long rest to regain those Hit Dice (similar to Exhaustion). Although many times in my games, Hit Dice are not that often used. Additional Comments - Healing Potions / Scrolls / Temples (Spend GP) : How often are healing potions used? Does your party horde them ? Never use them? or wait until the entire party is at less than 10 HP before whipping out the potions? Does the party purchase potions when in town? Are they hard to come by, or to abundant? Perhaps allowing for Scrolls to be purchased, or going to the Temple and having City clerics mend the wounded? Using your parties gold to purchase healing can help with also managing gold (if they have too much). Having these items on hand can allow for longer spans of time between rests and thus don't need to have a rest JUST to heal up (if resources is not the reason for the rest - see comment #1).

I use hit dice regardless of long rest. 1d4 for short and 1d6 for long regardless of class. Anytime you hit zero hit points you gain a level of exhaustion so popping up from healing word still has a consequence. One long rest per 24 hour period. Short rest as much as you want but its a finite pool of hit dice. Hit dice are recovered one per day plus a number of hit die equal to your constitution modifier. This creates a lingering wound issue for players to manage which I like.

for the healing it shouldn't be max from dice but on a long rest you should get advantage on the dice roll since you are taking your time to dose potions, massage each other, carefully clean and bandage wounds, or make more meaningful long prayers of healing. it can still go bad, but it's easier then what you can achieve in 10 minutes.

Definitely went the opposite direction than what I was expecting.

short rest being an hour is probably based around the 10m dungeon mechanics where each room and check takes about 10m.

Some systems work good alone. Some only work with others in place. I for example used to play with no heal at long rest, and it worked really well. But once I introduced mechanic to prevent last minute heal on characters that are dropped to 0, and made it so all excess dmg reduces max hp(and so did critical hits). This basically halved any healing recived, since to heal max hp, you had to top off normal hp first, and that began to be bit to much. I didn't want situation that would force one player to become healbot, so i gave them option to roll half of their hit dice at long rest, without con mod bonus. Just pure roll.

We use the long rest this way too, kind of, characters regain their hit dices and that's it. The 4 hour shift is interesting, thanks.

I use a modified Gritty Realism. Short rests are each night after 8 hours of rest. Long rests are 2 days off in a safe location. Medicine checks can be used to roll hit dice in between rests. It's a mandatory change I run in all of my games, and I don't think I would ever go back.

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I would like to remind you that resources are meant to be used, and warlocks being able to only cast two spells before needing to recharge kind of sucks short rest or not. So, even with a 10 minute short rest warlocks still need to be stingy with their resources which is how it should be, and at the end of the day you are the DM and can tell the party that if they do that they'll just get interrupted by the enemies in the next room over or something worse could happen. Also, 10 minutes isn't a ton of time, so certain members of the party could take short rests while the remainder make sure they can actually do it by barricading a door or something.

Need this in my Strahd campaign rn cuz we can't even get a short rest in cuz we playing w the hour min for a short rest and we are stuck out in the woods and tapped and can't take a short rest unless the DM rolls a six on the d6.

so i really like what youre suggesting with the long rest, and even splitting up what part of the long rest charge you get when, where the 1st half of the night you recover half your spent hd's and the next half yor your long rest abilities. a michanic i've been planning on implimenting is that by the end of your long rest, you recover half the difference between your current and max hp, plus your con mod (min of 1hp). though now im not sure weather to give them that hp at the end of both 4hr shifts, or just the 1st. also, if the max hp is lower than normal bc of say a wraith's attack, they'd get half the difference plus con mod between current hp and current max hp, but the max hp would go back to normal after the time period given for the effect. so if the pc was attacked by a wraith and their max hp goes from say 60 to 50, my umbers are arbitrary, dont worry about balance for the example, and their current hp is at say 20, they can recover half the hp between 20 and 50+con mod. like you suggest, they can spend hit dice before taking the rest to revover more hp, ave a smaller gap but the amount recovered is still half the dif + con mod. after the long rest, the wraith's ability wares off and they're back to having their original max hp, and their current hp are what ever they woke up with. that next night, their longrest heal would be based on the same formula. so lets say they rolled and slept and woke up with 45 hp and that day they didnt get injured or use any healing (hds or magic) than that night, they heal hp= half the difference between 45 and 60 (their normal max), + con mod, oh yes, and round up or down depending on how generous you're feeling as dm, though id reccommend rounding up. like your method, this would at least some what allow one to account for sustained injuries that take time to heal, as well as the body recovering from regular use.

One rule for healing I like to implement is that any character that has suffered damage from a critical hit, can not recover those hp until they have rested for a full 24 hours or are healed by higher level healing spells. Also any significant damage from a fall of 40'+ will give the character 1 or 2 lvl of exhaustion do to their body being jarred by the impact of the fall, these lvl of exhaustion wear off after a long rest.

Congratulations you have convinced me that 5e is totally wacked.

I like the distinction of Short, Long, and Full Rest. From a narrative stand point a rest in a city / town / Inn of some sort should be a "better" rest than camping out in the woods or in a dungeon. A player character that went unconscious with 2 death saves gone...8hr sleep...100% fine. Really? 5e is definitely more approachable but I agree "Rest" is a little bit over simplified and hit dice are kind of lackluster mechanic right now.

30 mins would be fair. Basically the length of a typical lunch break at work, and it wouldn't make warlocks _too_ broken 😉

What do you think of arcana checks to get spell slots back in stress-rests (rests in danger)? Or survival checks (way to make rangers barbarians rolling) for party benefits in stress-rests?

I break resting into 4 types of rests. Breather once per encounter short 5-10 minute break. spend a hit die. Short rest 2 per day 30-60 min spend hit die up to con mod short rest recharge abilities Long rest 1 per day 8 hours spend hit die to heal regain half hit die broken into 4 2 hour windows if you sleep for all 8 uninterrupted you can remove up to 2 levels of exhaustion most races need to sleep for 3 of the 4 windows the last one is open to other actions. modifying spell lists, crafting, maintaining equipment, taking a watch, etc. Full rest 24 hours must be completed in an inn or house or some other secure building. recover 2 levels of exhaustion all hit die and hitpoints. depending on the quality of the inn or home you get temporary hitpoints. Wretched/Squalid no benefit Poor/Modest hit die + con mod Comfortable/Wealthy 2 Hit die + double con mod Aristocratic 3 hit die + triple con mod

The characters are basically super heroes in a fantasy world. The healing is...fine. regarding sleeping in a tense area....go talk to soldiers. They can sleep anywhere. As long as it's safe it's not a huge deal always. Sometimes yeah, but not always.

Please make a video about how you handle casters. You mentioned on DC Plays in latest video hlw you allow casters choose spellcasting mod and spell list. Could you explain it in more details?

Instead of a role play moment I may have a short encounter with an obnoxious swarm of insects for the lookout lol

For my 2nd campaign, I've been thinking of changing long rests so that players A) Regain 1/2 their HD, as normal B) Regain hit points equal to the average of 1/2 their HD (rounded down, of course) + their Constitution score As an example, a 7th-level druid with 15 CON would regain 29 hit points (average of 3d8 is 14, plus their 15 CON), while a barbarian of the same level and CON score regains 35 hit points. What do we think about this system?

I like running the gritty rest rules (7 days long, 8h short rests) but in combination with a slower RP game with few random encounters and relatively easy dungeons with low challenge encounters and only one or two actually difficult battles. Other than that, I'm actually running my own variant of a long rest/full rest system with a whole table of things that reduce the quality of a long rest, significantly reducing healing and spell slots regained. The biggest issue with this system is actually that it's really hard to determine "resource levels". I need an entire table just for how many spell slots or (sub-) class resources like Rages or Sorcery Points you regain at what level. All of this really makes me wish that WotC would have built D&D with a third type of rest in mind, so that every class and class ability would be balanced for regaining a bit of it in a shorter long rest inside a dungeon or regaining all of it in a longer long rest that might require a few days in a city.

Rope trick is ideal for a duration of rest.

HP are usually the martial characters resource. Maybe you could come up with a way that spellcasters dont regain all their spells after a long rest (and only during a full rest). For a mpre gritty game or when they travel through a very hostile area I would definitely consider this (or add this temporarily) That is another thing. When you are in the underdark or wherever it is super dangerous you could nerf long or shoft rests because the players have to keep thier guard up constantly and cant really sleep well

Hi Coach, will the PDF be formatted in a way that’s easily printable? I’m international and the shipping prices are a little too high, I’d be totally happy to just print my own paper copy.

I do the following: 1) Short Rests - use the rules as written 2) Long Rests - players recycle spells and powers per normal. Healing is by expending hit dice per short rests--never recovering all hit points at once. PCs recover 1/2 rounded up of their maximum hit dice per long rest. Players can also do activities (scribe spells, identify items, rituals, cook dinner, etc) during a long rest. Interrupted long rests result in no benefits for the players. 3) Safety - players can only rest in designated zones. The place has to be quiet and relatively safe. Noisy, frightening, toxic or otherwise obviously dangerous zones cannot be rested in. Risky zones have a chance of wandering encounters interrupting rests, with more active places getting checks every 10 minutes (which will interrupt short rests), routine danger every 30 minutes (interrupting long rests). One reward for good exploration is *finding* safe, defensible places to rest. Players must use common sense (ie: player skill) to decide if a place is safe or not, based on asking the DM questions about the place.

Hello Coach! I'm new to TTRPGs, and I'm using channels like you're to learn as fast as possible. You mentioned that after testing it with your groups, you noticed the 6hr Long Rest was too short and reverted it to 8hrs. Similarly, with the Short Rest, you mentioned how 1hr felt too long, and you changed it to 10min. I understand the basic concept of time in the game: night v day effects and the effect on timed events. However, other than those 2 cases, I don't understand how the time length changes mentioned above affect the game. Mind explaining?

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Oops. Apparently I'm a rough homebrew DM. I misread the rules and was only giving players half of their hit dice on a long rest. No full healing. I swear I'm not trying to kill my player characters!

My resting rules: Short Rests, recover one hp, that's it. Long Rests, roll your hit dice.

How do you handle things like Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion with your Full Rest? Does using the Mansion trigger a Full Rest automatically or is it a case by case thing?

Oh, what if every time they're dropped to 0 hp they lose a hit dice until they take a full rest? Now death yoyo is fully prevented because they won't be able to recover at night

10min short rests break the game if you have a fighter and a warlock, or even a moon druid in the game.

if I've backed the kickstarter for AAA do I have also have to pay for the Rest System pdf?

What do you think about a ten hour long rest for full hit dice healing ? Otherwise roll for healing?

I always hated the idea that someone might "rest" for an hour or 8 hours in the home of an active nest of evil... does no one leave the room they are assigned, was no one out looting or bringing back supplies? Low-level casters really need to rest, but the time length just seemed absurd.

I personally just make them roll all of their hot die for long rest plus con mod.

What about rest variants in DMG on page 267? You find those viable?

I love the full heal resting. 😔

How about you cannot gain Hit Dies while you have >1 Exhaustion points? Like you have to rest deeply enough to be able to heal.

I like the ideas for long tests, but the problem I tend to have is that classes that benefit more from short rests, i.e. monks and warlocks, tend to be very powerful compared to classes that rest at long rests. A lvl 5 mink can blast through all of their ki points in every combat if they want because they can just SR in 10 min. Unless you just dungeon crawl, short rest characters feel far more powerful. I have a hard time finding ways to throw more than 2-3 combats at a party in a 24 period. Any thoughts?

Hey man, this doesn't have to do a lot with the content of the video but I think you can inprove your camera quality a little. I have this at 1080p and it still looks like 240. Don't know if it's your lens, or some other thing, but it is a little unconfortable for the eye.

To be fair, Hit Points isn't Health Points. While they call them healing, it isn't closing wounds, putting bones back together. Hit Points were to meant to represent your ability to stay in a fight, not damage or blood you were losing, hence why at 1 HP makes no difference when having to do skill checks, attacks, saving throws, etc. If you think about it, it's more like a Stamina Bar than the Health, DM's narrate how players are getting bloodied, but by RAW and RAI it isn't intended that way. This is why I think including an injury system is by far way better. You can let the party get all their HPs back, but an injury will prevail until they get it fixed. Also spells like cure wounds, healing word etc, don't fix body parts. Only a few spells such regenerate can fix a body up, and that's a 7th level spell.

Correct me if I am wrong, but does it not say somewhere that to get the full benefit of a long rest the characters need to be in a safe comfortable environment (ie an Inn, or location that they have "made safe" previously)? It seems to me the system has been nerfed by most GMs already, in favour of the players. Now, I could be wrong as I am not a 5E fan, and haven't played it in years.

What about spells like Cat Nap?