Questions tagged [rests]
For questions about rests, a short period of in-game downtime meant to be a period of recovery, regaining health and resources as appropriate.
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Does a party have to wait 1d4 hours to start a Short Rest if no healing is available and an ally is only stabilized?
The rules for Short Rests say:
To start a Short Rest, you must have at least 1 Hit Point.
The rules for Long Rests say:
To start a Long Rest, you must have at least 1 Hit Point.
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Is armor that can be worn under clothing any less bothersome to rest in?
Using the optional rules from Xanathar's Guide to Everything, wearing medium or heavy armor can disrupt resting, as noted in this answer to a related question.
However, what about the various kinds of ...
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What happens if you rest in extreme cold?
As I understand it, a high-level spellcaster travelling in a blizzard can avoid cold damage using Investiture of Ice. However, the spell goes away if they rest, which they inevitably need to do. What ...
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How much healing does the Moment of Renewal spell provide?
The Moment of Renewal spell targets up to 6 creatures and says (emphasis mine):
The targets experience a day's worth of recovery in an instant. Any detrimental effects that would be gone after 24 ...
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Are there any features that allow for faster long rests?
Are there any features in the game that reduce the duration that long rests take? Specifically, I'm looking for:
Racial traits that set the long rest to 4 Hours or less
Any other features that ...
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End of long rest vs finishing long rest
Is there a mechanical difference between abilities that say "at the end of a long rest" and abilities that say "when you finish a long rest"?
As an example, you regain hit points ...
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Can you stand watch while taking a short rest?
This came up during today's session. Long Rest (p. 186, PHB) says:
A long rest is a period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during which a character sleeps or performs light activity: ...
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What are the effects of magical sleep for a long rest?
I’ve searched for this over and over but haven’t found a definite answer to my questions… It would be awesome if the answer(s) could contain links that support their sayings :)
Say you are put to ...
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With the Chef feat, can I cook more treats if I spend more hours cooking?
The Chef feat says:
With one hour of work or when you finish a long rest, you can cook a number of treats equal to your proficiency bonus. These special treats last 8 hours after being made. A ...
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How to run an encounter against a sleeping party, utilising a homebrew system
I'm currently working on a personal revision to traveling in the wilderness in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, and I've hit a roadblock with encounter design. Let me summarize my system and the ...
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Do commoners have the same per long rest healing factors?
I recently created a Mercy Monk with a Field Medic background/career, though the more I thought about what his job would entail, the more I started to wonder about the mechanics of long-rest healing ...
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Do characters have to wait 24 hours to long rest, if a long rest is interrupted?
If characters have been interrupted during a long rest, do they need to wait 24 hours before taking a long rest again? The rules specify that only one long rest is allowed in 24 hours but it also ...
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What is stronger: an ability that can be used proficiency bonus times, or one that can be used once per short rest?
A lot of races and classes have abilities that can either be used proficiency bonus times per long rest, or that can be used once per short or long rest.
For evaluating homebrew races, you often need ...
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Does anything stop a sorcerer stockpiling spell slots?
A Sorcerer converts all their slots to 1st level, then they go to bed for the night. Is there any reason why they wouldn't still have those slots when they wake up in the morning?
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How to manage exhaustion when using Gritty Realism?
In my exploration-based game I am using a variant on the Gritty Realism optional rules. I have a good handle on most of the implications of this, however I have some concerns about my handling of the ...
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Resting during travel
When travelling, it says in the PHB that players can travel at either fast, normal, or slow pace. When moving at this speed, is resting accounted for? For example, if a party all takes a long rest ...
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Are there any 5e spells whereby PCs can gain the benefit of a long rest without actually taking a long rest?
I know that in D&D 5e the 3rd-level spell Catnap allows PCs to get the benefit of a short rest in exchange for 10 minutes of being unconscious.
Are there any spells that allow PCs to get the ...
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Is casting unused spells in the morning legit?
Our group has a habit of casting spells in the morning before ending our long rest, to use unused spell slots, we call it "casting down" spells. Typical spells we cast are those with longer ...
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Can I rest while under the effects of the Meld into Stone spell?
Suppose my character is sneaking around an enemy encampment, and, just before being discovered by a patrol, spends their last spell-slot to cast Meld into Stone on a nearby boulder. In doing so, they ...
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When do familiars rest, if ever?
It seems to be the common belief that familiars are creatures and need rest. I cannot find a question on here that specifically says so, but the general feeling is that the familiar is a creature, and ...
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Long rest contradiction between Official rule and Sage advice? [duplicate]
There are two rule clarifications posts that I am trying to wrap my head around. But both seems to contradict each other.
Regarding an Elf that trances for 4H.... When does he gets the benefits of ...
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Does the start of an adventure count as having had a long rest?
In the near future I'm going to play in a one-shot (DND 5e) and I might want to play a level 4 divination wizard. When I read Portent I saw the following line: When you finish a long rest, roll two ...
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Can you determine the order of "at the end of a short rest" effects?
Example when being able to determine that order matters: periapt of wound closure, an attunement item that benefits spending hit dice.
Picture the following scenario: The party is beat-up after a few ...
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When does an artficer regain spell slots?
I've looked on several resources and I can't get to the bottom of whether an Artificer recharges spell slots on short/long rest?
Lots of articles refer to the class as a "short rest caster" ...
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Can a simulacrum (of a humanoid that can take a long rest) take a long rest?
This question is inspired by Dale M's answer to another question. In that answer, Dale M said (bold added):
So if a Simulacrum of a cleric can take a long rest it can change its prepared spells. ...
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How can I give my players more short rests without breaking immersion?
While there are a lot of questions concerning how to give players fewer resources (usually by reducing the frequency of rests), this question is the inverse: I've had issues at my table with the ...
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Can I get a long rest in Leomund's Tiny Hut if I'm underwater and water breathing?
I'm a druid/wizard and our party is trying to do some underwater spelunking. I cast the Water Breathing ritual, so we can all breathe underwater for 24 hours. After a few hours of adventuring we've ...
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How much HP does a Pact of the Chain Imp familiar recover on a Short Rest? [duplicate]
I believe a Pact of the Chain Imp familiar uses the normal Imp stat block. So it has:
Hit Points 10 (3d4 + 3)
CON 13 (+1)
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
For purposes of recovering HP during a Short Rest, how ...
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Is changing prepared spells a 'benefit of a long rest'?
This problem came up during a post-game discussion in my D&D 5e campaign last night. It concerns the curse ability of the Rakshasa and how that interacts with preparing spells. In game we managed ...
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Long Rest interrupted AFTER 4 hour Trance
Now that there has been strict errata saying an Elf DOES indeed finish a Long Rest after 4 hours if they decide to meditate through Trance, I assume this also means they are forced to gain the ...
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If an elf is stable with 0 HP, do they regain all hit points after a long rest of 8 hours or 4?
In my most recent session, the entire party except one character was downed (reduced to 0 HP), but they were all stabilised by the cleric (the only member that was left standing). One of the downed ...
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Can Lair Actions be used while Resting?
I am curious because of an existing situation in my current campaign, and would appreciate feedback. Here's the scenario:
An Aboleth is confronted in its lair by the party, which manages to beat it ...
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Can a rest be taken in a moving cart?
This question comes from a discussion with a DM friend of mine, whose players asked him if they could take a short rest while traveling in a moving cart. His initial reaction was to think that wouldn'...
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Is there a RAW way to allow the PCs to recover only some of their spell slots, HP, hit dice etc?
My party were rather foolhardy and have got themselves knocked out and captured. Their captors want to keep them alive for a bit to question and then to sacrifice.
The party expended pretty much all ...
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How should rests be handled inside the Tomb of of the Nine Gods?
I'm running Tomb of Annihilation, and my players have finally arrived at the Tomb of the Nine Gods. As they have been deciding when it is safe to take short rests, I've been rolling for random ...
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Are there any instances of any rules for Tabaxi that say they only need 4 hours of rest?
One of my players has just started playing a tabaxi, she is sure she read rules that as a racial trait she only needs 4 hours for a long rest. However neither of us can find rules stating this. She is ...
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How would a druid protect their campsite for the night?
I am currently playing a level 6 Circle of the Shepherd Druid, and planning how they would deal with having to spend time in a dangerous area overnight.
A wizard would use all sorts of rituals to set ...
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How does one calculate effects of damage over time if one is taking a long rest?
In a particular adventure, the air in the lower levels is poisoned, causing 1d6 poison damage every hour:
If a party take a long rest in such an environment, how do you calculate the cumulative ...
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Can a character somehow gain more, or less, hit dice than they have character levels?
I find the wording of regaining Hit Dice during a long rest very odd:
The character also regains spent Hit Dice, up to a number of dice
equal to half of the character's total number of them (minimum ...
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When can an artificer use the Infuse Item feature to imbue an item with an artificer infusion?
While exploring Undermountain in the Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage published adventure, the party has encountered a few monsters that are resistant to non-magical weapons. The artificer in the ...
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Do fiends need to sleep?
The Monster Manual states that undead and constructs do not need to sleep.
But it is unclear if fiends need to sleep. What should they do to make a long rest?
There are fiendish abilities with "...
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What is considered strenuous activity in regards to a long rest? [duplicate]
The description for a long rest states:
A long rest is a period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during which a character sleeps for at least 6 hours and performs no more than 2 hours of ...
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Can an Order of the Mutant blood hunter consume Mutagens towards the end of a short rest?
I'm considering playing a blood hunter, Order of the Mutant (the updated version as of 2020).
Starting at 7th level, they can learn the Reconstruction Mutagen:
Prerequisite: 7th level
For 1 hour, at ...
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Does a rest remove ALL chase-induced exhaustion or just ONE level?
Most exhaustion can be removed by a long rest, food, and drink (PHB 251)
Finishing a long rest reduces a creature's exhaustion level by 1, provided that creature has also ingested some food and drink....
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Vampire spawn and the nature of their "rest"
Vampire spawn have the trait "chained to the grave" which includes the phase "Every vampire remains bound to its coffin, crypt, or grave site, where it must rest by day."
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Does being "paralyzed" for an extended period of time grant the effects of a rest?
One of our players got paralyzed for 10 hours by a special dart (homebrew). We were in combat when he went down, and were in combat when the effect wore off, although they were 2 separate encounters. ...
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Do monsters with a Spellcasting trait get spell slots back after a long rest?
Some monsters, like a lich, have the Spellcasting trait. This trait allows such monsters to cast spells using spell slots, much as spellcaster player characters do.
However, taking the lich as an ...
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Do sorcery points made from converted spell slots vanish after a long rest?
I was wondering about the sorcerer's ability to turn sorcery points into spell slots, where the same conversion rate applies to turn spell slots into sorcery points.
If, by the end of the day, you ...
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Does a Warforged receive all the benefits of a long rest while wearing armor?
In Eberron: Rising From The Last War (p. 36), the Warforged's Integrated Protection trait states that you can take a rest while donning or doffing armor. The Sentry's Rest trait also states that you ...
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How to manage rest with changing GMs and players
I have been running a west marches style D&D 5e game where the GM and the players (along with their characters) change between every session. Due to this, every session ends back in town and with ...
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