Rest

Heroic though they might be, adventurers can’t spend every hour of the day in the thick of exploration, social interaction, and combat. They need rest—time to sleep and eat, tend their wounds, refresh their minds and spirits for spellcasting, and brace themselves for further adventure.

The Hyrule Compendium assumes a variant of rest like one found on page 267 of the Dungeon Master's Guide. Quicker "short rest" periods are meant to closer emulate Zelda games in which combat is routine and healing is quick. This rule can make combat easier for players, but a concerned DM can compensate for this by increasing the Challenge Rating of combat encounters.

Short rest

Rest is any period during which a character does nothing more strenuous than eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds. At the end of at least 5 minutes of rest, a player expend at least one of their character's Heart Container to finish a short rest. You can spend a number of Heart Container up to the character's maximum, which is equal to the character's level.

For each Heart Container spent at the end of a short rest, the player rolls the Heart Container die and ass the character's Constitution modifier to the result. The character regains heart points equal to the total. The player can decide to spend an additional Heart Container after each roll.

Some spent Heart Containers are regained upon finishing a long rest.

For At the end of this period, you must expend at least one of your Heart Containers.

Since non-player characters usually don't have Heart Containers, they usually don't benefit from short rests.

Long rest

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 standing watch for no more than 2 hours. If the rest is interrupted by a period of strenuous activity—at least 1 hour of walking, fighting, casting spells, or similar adventuring activity&mdashthe characters must begin the rest again to gain any benefit from it.

At the end of a long rest, a character regains all lost heart points. The character also regains all spent Heart Container.

A character can’t benefit from more than one long rest in a 24-­hour period, and a character must have at least 1 heart points at the start of the rest to gain its benefits.

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