Short rest 5e mod#

(Sorcerers and Wizards would instead roll 1d6 Fighters, Paladins and Rangers would roll 1d10 and Barbarians would instead roll 1d12.) After that the player would decide if they want to spend another Hit Die and repeat the process until either they are satisfied with their current HP, or out of Hit Dice.

Short rest 5e mod#

So most characters would spend a Hit Die, roll 1d8 and add their Con mod to the result and regain that many HP. When you have 0 Hit Dice remaining you can spend no more until you regain Hit Dice.įor example, most characters have d8s for their Hit Dice. Whenever you spend a Hit Die you roll it and add your Con modifier to the result, and that sum gets added to your current HP. You do it one at a time to prevent underspending and/or overspending them.

The way they work is, on a Short Rest you can choose to spend Hit Dice one at a time to regain health. That would also encourage more downtime activities, so they wouldn’t immediately jump back into combat the next day. That right there would go a long, long way towards incentivizing all PCs to want to take the recommended 1-2 Short Rests per adventuring day, and justify shifting more of these other things to Long Rest refreshes for balance purposes. I hope they will change the rules to Long Rests so that, instead of regaining all your HP and half your Hit Dice every Long Rest, that they invert it so you regain half your HP and all of your Hit Dice every LR. I do agree with you however that things would have been much clearer if they had written them in the order in which you suggest. ”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.”īut it doesn’t, and that missing colon means the “1 hour of” only applies to anything before the first comma. If it read as follows it would indicate an hour of any of the listed activities: I believe that RAW does technically reflect that RAI interpretation because of the punctuation. If only they had thought this thru in terms of the order things are listed in - strenuous activity - fighting, casting spells, at least one hour of walking or similar adventuring activity Which is what I think they meant (RAI) though it’s clearly not RAW. '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. It is very difficult to interrupt a long rest with combat: Personally, I'd rather they give LRR casters something that recharges on short rests (maybe they can convert a hit die or two into low-level slots during a short rest?), give everyone access to at least one or two martial maneuvers that recharge on short rest (maybe accessible by background, and doesn't need to be offensive I could see, e.g., Entertainer getting an evasive AC-increasing maneuver or an Acrobatics- or Performance-based skill maneuver), or similar things that would encourage people to take more short rests. One solution would be to just follow along with casters unbalancing the game, and rebalance it around their playstyle, and it does seem that it's the solution they're going with. Most casters typically don't have short rest recharge features, so groups that move at the casters' pace don't bother with short rests, which in turn hurts martials, Warlocks, and other SRR classes. but they underestimated how easily casters could end encounters if they went all out, and gameplay kinda warped around that for a lot of groups. Half the classes were designed with this in mind, and intended to need to use their 'encounter powers' in every encounter, so that parties would want to take a breather after every 1-2 fights. Really, the underlying problem here is that short rests were meant to help convert 4e AEDU to 5e's '3.5e lite' paradigm At-will is cantrips & normal attacks, Encounter recharges on short rest, Daily recharges on long rest, and Utility is ritual casting. Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures