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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Realistically, does Leomund’s Tiny Hut allow for indefinite long rests in a dungeon?
I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this, but the more I read into Leomund’s tiny hut, the more it looks like it’s a spell designed entirely around taking free long rests in dungeons, or ...
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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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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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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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Is 4 hours long enough for a long rest for Elves?
The Long Rest rules read:
A long rest is a period of extended downtime, at least 8
hours long, during which you sleep or perform light activity: reading,
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Long rests can be interrupted for up to 1 hour without having to restart the rest; is this limit per-rest or per-interruption?
I just read this question about long rests being regularly interrupted and this one about how resources are recovered at the end of an interrupted long rest, and another question came to me.
Is the 1-...
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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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Can you be in a perpetual state of short/long rest?
Based on this question: Does the Aspect of the Moon Eldritch Invocation effectively allow for unending Wild Shape?
In that question the original poster wants to know if they could keep regaining use ...
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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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How many short rests can you take per day?
Is there a specific rule that limit the number of short rests per day like the one that say that a character can't benefit from more than one long rest in a 24-hour period?
My friend is playing a ...
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Does a multiclass character get to pick which hit dice they recover after a long rest?
This question came up in our last game.
In 5e, after a long rest you get to recover half your hit dice. My assumption would be is that if you are multiclass you get to pick the hit dice you want to ...
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Does a short combat or casting one spell interrupt a Long Rest?
D&D Basic Rules v0.1 says on page 67 that a long rest is interrupted by "at least 1 hour of walking, fighting, casting spells". So does that mean that 59 minutes of combat doesn't interrupt the ...
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Since the Refocus activity requires spending a Focus Point before I Refocus again, can I only fully replenish my focus pool by resting?
I'm a bit unsure about how the Refocus activity works. If I have a pool of 3 focus points and spend 2, according to the Refocus rules I can regenerate 1, but need to use up at least 1 again before I ...
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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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How can rests be best managed in Tomb of Annihilation?
Tomb of Annihilation is half giant jungle hex-crawl and half dungeon-delving. The hex-crawl features several mini-dungeons, and is littered with random encounters.
The adventure recommends 1-2 ...
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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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Is it possible to "charge up" a sorcerer/warlock by taking multiple short rests?
So according to the wonders of multiclassing, it is possible to take levels in both Sorcerer (granting us sorcery points) and Warlock (giving us Pact Magic) which creates the handy combo of turning ...
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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 do the activity limitations for a long rest work in the Gritty Realism variant?
In my current campaign (in which I am a player) we are considering switching over to the Gritty Realism rest variant in the DMG so that the party would have to expend more resources between resting. ...
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Can a victim of the Dream spell's nightmare take another long rest immediately after the rest they were affected by Dream?
The Dream spell states as part of its effect:
You can make the messenger appear monstrous and terrifying to the target. If you do, the messenger can deliver a message of no more than ten words and ...
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What happens if you don't sleep?
The description of a long rest says:
A long rest is a period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during which a character sleeps or performs light activity: reading, talking, eating, or ...
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Can You Concentrate Through a Long Rest?
According to the PHB, concentration is broken under one of three conditions:
Casting another spell that requires concentration
Taking damage and failing the CON save
Being incapacitated or killed
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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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What exactly is considered "light activity" for the purpose of the "Aspect of the Moon" Eldritch Invocation?
Xanathar's Guide to Everything (p. 56) adds Aspect of the Moon as an option for one of their Eldritch Invocations:
Aspect of the Moon
Prerequisite: Pact of the Tome feature
You no longer need to ...
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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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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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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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Order of effects for Slow Natural Healing variant
The following is what happens to hit points and hit dice at the end of a long rest (PHB p. 186):
At the end of a long rest, a character regains all lost hit points. The character also regains spent ...
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Still gain the benefits of rest if drugged?
If PCs are drugged and fall unconscious, does the period they are out count as a short rest? Would a warlock regain their spell slots?
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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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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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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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