Timeline for Can a long rest immediately follow a short rest to attune to an item?
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| Sep 20, 2017 at 19:08 | comment | added | Perkins | If the DM wishes to be a jerk, he could rule that an hour of strenuous activity or two hours of light activity are required between the two to prevent the short rest from just counting as part of the long rest (or vice-versa since both descriptions have a minimum duration but not a maximum) but that's really throwing realism out the window just to inconvenience the players. If he wants to force them to choose between attuning and long-resting he should come up with a reasonable reason for the dilemma. | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 19:18 | history | edited | Icyfire | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 594 characters in body |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 0:37 | comment | added | Icyfire | Right, that would ordinarily all be part of a long rest. But it's consistent with a short rest followed by a long rest too--I'm just trying to make the point that it can be split up in a game-mechanical way without changing what is intuitively happening. | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 0:34 | comment | added | Adeptus | "an hour or so of non-strenous activity, like reading, and then going to sleep" would all be part of a long rest: "a period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during which a character sleeps or performs light activity: reading [...] for no more than 2 hours" (I don't disagree with your answer, just the example) | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 20:20 | history | answered | Icyfire | CC BY-SA 3.0 |