Resting, Exhaustion and Hit Dice

Post by **Flession** » Thu Jul 20, 2023 6:25 am

Short Rest

A short rest is a period of downtime, at least 1 hour long, during which a character does nothing more strenuous than eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds.

A character can spend one or more Hit Dice at the end of a short rest, up to the character’s maximum number of Hit Dice, which is equal to the character’s level. For each Hit Die spent in this way, the player rolls the die and adds the character’s Constitution modifier to it. The character regains hit points equal to the total (minimum of 0). The player can decide to spend an additional Hit Die after each roll. A character regains some spent Hit Dice upon finishing a long rest, as explained below.

Up to a single short rest can be done during a timeslot.

Long Rest
- 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 light activity, such as reading, talking, eating, or standing watch. 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.
  
  At the end of a long rest, a character regains all lost hit points. 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 of one die). For example, if a character has eight Hit Dice, he or she can regain four spent Hit Dice upon finishing a long rest.
  
  A character can’t benefit from more than one long rest in a 24-hour period, and a character must have at least 1 hit point at the start of the rest to gain its benefits.
  
  Elves do not need to sleep, but they enter into the 'trance' or 'reverie'. Effectively their downtime for a long rest is reduced to, at least 4 hours long.
Going Without a Long Rest
- Whenever a character ends a 24-hour period without finishing a long rest, the character must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or suffer one level of exhaustion.
  
  It becomes harder to fight off exhaustion if your character stay awake for multiple days. After the first 24 hours, the DC increases by 5 for each consecutive 24-hour period without a long rest. The DC resets to 10 when you finish a long rest.
Sleeping in Armor
- Sleeping in light armor has no adverse effect on the wearer, but sleeping in medium or heavy armor makes it difficult to recover fully during a long rest. When a character finish a long rest during which he slept in medium or heavy armor, he regain only one quarter of any spent Hit Dice (minimum of one die). If the character has any levels of exhaustion, the rest doesn't reduce the exhaustion level.
Exhaustion
- Some special abilities and environmental hazards, such as starvation and the long-term effects of freezing or scorching temperatures, can lead to a special condition called exhaustion. Exhaustion is measured in six levels. An effect can give a creature one or more level of exhaustion, as specified in the effect's description.
  - 1 Disadvantage on ability checks
  - 2 Speed halved
  - 3 Disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws
  - 4 Hit point maximum halved
  - 5 Speed reduced to O
  - 6 Death
  If an already exhausted creature suffers another effect that causes exhaustion, its current level of exhaustion increases by the amount specified in the effect's description.
  A creature suffers the effect of its current level of exhaustion as well as all lower level. For example, a creature suffering level 2 exhaustion has its speed halved and has disadvantage on ability checks.
  
  An effect that removes exhaustion reduces its level as specified in the effect's description, with all exhaustion effects ending if a creature's exhaustion level is reduced below 1.
  
  Finishing a long rest reduces a creature's exhaustion level by 1, provided that the creature has also ingested some food and drink