In my mind it all comes down to the difference between an RPG and a board game. Doing it like that, you'll avoid screwing up everything else. Instead, just move healing off of the 'rests' system and give them times (hours, days, etc). If you want to change healing rates, do NOT redefine the lengths of 'rests'. If you want a really low magic and special ability campaign, that almost works, except there are plenty of amazing things some classes or races can do who's recharge times are not based on 'rests' which get distinctly MORE powerful in that kind of setting. Now that was only with the base races and classes, though some specialties/traditions/whatever that class calls it have more things that get screwed over. Wizard - Expended spell slots regained after a week. Warlock - Expended Spell Slots & Mystic Arcanum & Eldritch Master recharge after a week. Sorcerer - Expended spell slots and Sorcery Points take a week to recharge. Ranger - Expended spell slots take a week to recharge. Paladin - Divine Sense & Lay On Hands, Cleansing Touch, and Expended spell slots only recharge after a week. Wild Shape only recharges the next day.įighter - Second Wind & Action Surge both become once per day.

Divine Intervention takes a week before you can use it again, whether you succeeded or not.ĭruid - Expended spell slots regained after a week.

Font of Inspiration becomes a daily.Ĭleric - Expended spell slots regained after a week. Half Orc - Relentless Endurance once per week.īarbarian - Rage uses only recharge after a week, and Relentless Rage doesn't reset it's DC until the next day.īard - Expended Spell slots & Bardic Inspiration regained only after a week. Let's go with that gritty thing for example where a short rest is 8 hours and a long rest is a week.ĭragonborn Breathweapon usable once per day. You recover full amount of HD every long rest, but you must use one to benefit from healing spells, magic items, potions, and class abilities.Ĭhanging what the length of time is for a 'rest' just to tweak healing will have TONS of unintended side effects. Simulate 3e: As 2e, but give the PCs enough Wands of Cure Light Wounds that it really doesn't matter anymore and then use 5e's healing RAW. Long rests recover full hp, but last 2d4 days to recover. Simulate 2e: PCs can use 1 HD per short rest. Long rests (8 hours) allow you to use HD. Simulate 1e/Basic: PCs cannot burn HD during short rests. (Note: not playtest, not responsible for TPKs). So here is my Official Remathilis healing rules. a set of general guidelines to adjusting the healing dial. Having seen the preview of the 'healing section' covered up in the alien tech preview and realizing its probably 3-4 paragraphs, I really don't expect a complicated set of rules vs.

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