Am I long resting too much?

[Desumated]

I just got an achievment saying I rested over 4 times in the campaign. I haven't even got past act 1 and I have rested quite a lot. It is easier to rest and reheal instead of spending hp pots

[Blood of Kerensky]

Don't worry too much. With a few exceptions, you can long rest as much as you want.

[NomenAK]

Totally normal, dont worry

[Mathias Giovanni]

I love naps. They make me happy.

[Desumated]

Originally posted by Blood of Kerensky:

Don't worry too much. With a few exceptions, you can long rest as much as you want.

ok cool just want to make sure im not rushing the "in camp" role play stuff. I am already makin moves on Shadowheart

[Dare]

Something I found out about long rests as well. If you have any free 1st level spell spots on casters with the Good Berry spell, make sure you use them up for free and easy Camp Supply food.

[Alphashrub]

If you long rest too often you'll simply run out of supplies ( you don't want this)

[Stranger]

Well, in EA the way your companions and everyone talk about the urgency of getting the parasite removed compelled me to do as much as I could without taking a rest. I am doing the same thing this time, exploring everything possible in ACT 1 and doing the Goblins last. The truth is though there are a lot of interactions that only occur when you camp for a long rest, so despite the ludo-narrative dissonance of the situation you are actually doing it the way the game was intended.

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Originally posted by Alphashrub:

If you long rest too often you'll simply run out of supplies ( you don't want this)

You find so much stuff that's pretty hard to do.
And I think if you have multiple people that can cast these magical berries you have unlimited supplies.

[Typha]

Being an actual D&D player, it feels entirely wrong to have such easy access to long rests.

Video game-wise though, they'd have to really decrease the number and challenge on encounter types if they were to limit long rests. And I'm not sure that would make for a better game. It's one of those things that doesn't translate super well to a video game format.

[Razor]

I used to rest AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE in the old games because I had the feeling that either the game could become harder because of too much time passing or, idk, something bad develop...

But that was just my young mind. Developers rarely are brave enough to include a mechanic like that, where if you rest too much, basically, the game would become too hard for you(some people) and you wouldn't be able to complete it!

I watched later as people rested to get 1!! spell back, not me, I used every single one of them with care and thought and rested so little that by the end of the game I had a serious small amount of in game time, can't say i wasnt, or am not, still proud of it lol. And not all was lost because, in the old games, (in BG3 it probably doesnt affect anything) it did affect some dialogues ;)

So basically sometimes the Game told me I had to rest to proceed, because Rest would show a video/dream to proceed. Obviously I still think that resting too much should have some kind of consequence or it takes the meaning of recovering spells... that if wizards still even need to rest to recover spells in 5 edition.

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥):

Originally posted by Alphashrub:

If you long rest too often you'll simply run out of supplies ( you don't want this)

You find so much stuff that's pretty hard to do.
And I think if you have multiple people that can cast these magical berries you have unlimited supplies.

Yeah there's a lot of food scattered around if you don't grab it all at first and start to run low.

Berry bushes, barrels tend to have food, some crates - honestly most of the 'junk containers' have a nice purpose here. They don't really have equipment, but they have a bunch of food so you can loot them or not depending on your food stocks.

[Zzyl_tsw]

I tried to rest as little as possible, but it is an habit to "keep the difficulty".

Because if you are full HP and mage have all their spells every fight, it is basically a "easy" mode of kind. Considering I play in tactician, it would defeat the purpose.

But no issue with how you play. The important is to have fun xD

[ACS36]

The game economy is completely backward. Player has access to all the tools they need to do whatever they want whenever they want. In order to make the game feel dangerous resources need to be scarce so decisions hold more weight. EVEN if you choose not to rest often: you still have more scrolls, potions, barrels, magical arrows than you'll ever really need.

You're super wealthy by the time you reach level 5. Even if you're not stealing or pick pocketing anyone.

[yuzhonglu]

To make it challenging I'm trying to long rest as little as possible.

[Naamtar]

Originally posted by ACS36:

The game economy is completely backward. Player has access to all the tools they need to do whatever they want whenever they want. In order to make the game feel dangerous resources need to be scarce so decisions hold more weight. EVEN if you choose not to rest often: you still have more scrolls, potions, barrels, magical arrows than you'll ever really need.

You're super wealthy by the time you reach level 5. Even if you're not stealing or pick pocketing anyone.

On the flip side of this having scarcity creates a meta where everyone wants to play a pick pocket. This happened in Divinity 2.