How does the game progress days/long rests?

[Ryan "A1r" Wynnclaire]

Okay following situation: Im nearly lvl 4 but i havent long rested once yet. Is that problematic for the story? For example I havent even spoke to the druids yet but I already got Karlach and killed the 3 Tyr guys. Right now I fear if i long rest that the druids questline get jumbled up or something.
Overall im just trying to understand when/how often to long rest. Is it possible to long rest too little / too often?

[Panda]

There are some time limited quests - you can figure it out by yourself or simply use this

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3024365536

In short - you will miss like 15-20% unique dialogs and some events if you like me - never sleeping person. So - sleep whenever you want (just check this guide if you don't want to miss anything), it's "free" unlike in D&D and useful if you have casters in your team.

Btw game doesn't really care if you wanna sleep or not, you will be forced to sleep at least 2-4 times during acts, so feel free to sleep as many times as you want.

[Moonbane]

you can fail the druid quest if you head to the mountain pass to the north, the shadowcursed lands before resolving it. Or siding with the goblins and choosing to raid the grove. It does not matter how long or how much you rest.

[Dinonoms]

The game will prioritize Story relevant camping events over character events but they will happen eventually. For example Astarion tried to bite my durge during a rest in the gith crèche.

Also most if not all things are progression timed and not by long rests. For example the Druid/Goblin situation will only automatically resolve once you enter the mountain pass oder the underdark area.

[Moonbane]

Untrue about the underdark, you can go back and forth from the underdark without issue. Infact the game encourages you to go down under.

Its going to the Shadow-cursed lands from Grymforge that is a nono.

[Caledor]

You should do some long rests. Some events happens when you do a long rest. And always just one event happens for every long rest.
Also the companions have something to say about what happend. You miss this, too

[Moonbane]

Yes, many companion events for their story happens on long rests, including romances.

[Ryan "A1r" Wynnclaire]

Thank you very much for your answers!

[Jarmer]

You need to long rest to progress the main storyline and some sidequests as well. Also - that aside, you need to long rest to recharge spell slots and a ton of abilities reset on long rest only. So .... you should be long resting lol. As another poster said, just don't miss some time sensitive missions, and long rest whenever you run out of short rests.

[Moonbane]

Add a bard to your group and you can get a third short rest a day. Which synergizes well with warlocks and fighters.