When (How Often) Do You Rest?

jacobtan

I have long wanted to ask this question. How often do you rest, and why do you rest the way you do?

I typically open a battle sequence with L9 spells like Time Stop, Wish (for double-length Time Stop), or a Chain Contingency with triple Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting for BG2, and multiple castings of Emotion, Chaos and Hold Person from invisible mages in BG. Once I am down to about 50% of these opening spells, I will rest. If necessary, I will retreat to another map with the unused spells to be used to cover my escape.

jackjack

Once a day, typically. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but usually 8 out of every 24 hours.

Blackraven

jackjack said:

Once a day, typically. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but usually 8 out of every 24 hours.

Exactly this.
More if severely injured and no way to heal. Less mostly when travelling large distances.
I usually try to avoid resting before battles that aren't forseeable without metagame knowledge.

Kamigoroshi

All my charnames *love* their numerous break times. And I'm not denying it them. After all: when else do they have some free time for getting drunk, updating their journals, or enjoying some intimacy if not by resting?

elminster

When I feel it is necessary given what lies ahead.

FinneousPJ

All of the above

Ballad

Generally, I try to time my rests so that they make sense from a roleplaying/adventuring standpoint. This usually means one full rest per every dungeon/quest. I try not to rest within dungeons unless I absolutely have to - I imagine it seriously creeping out my party members (if you have read the Lord of the Rings, think back to the Moria chapter; you'll know what I'm talking about.) Multi-level dungeons such as Durlag's Tower and Watcher's Keep are naturally exempt from this rule.

From a metagaming standpoint, I also like the idea of having to utilize most of my resources and not just the few powerful ones. When the adventure is over and my mage is fatigued, wounded and down to just a handful of spells, I take pleasure in knowing that I've used him to his full potential.

Gotural

It depends of my party, if I'm playing a full party with some fighters, I try to rest only when I'm completly out of spells, casting only when necessary. But if I'm playing no-reload I often rest every 3-4 fights.

25% looks like a fair number to me.

CoM_Solaufein

I'm a slave driver most of the time. Then I realize that the mage in the party is down on spells and my priests can't heal. Opps.

bbear

Rarely. A solo FMT can go on forever until the effect of fatigue becomes too severe (opponents do max dmg every hit and my character does min dmg every hit).

CrevsDaak

When I realize I don't have enough protections spells (aka I already casted and consumed Stoneskin twice) or when I have very less spells and I'm injured/weary.

meagloth

Pretty much when stoneskin runs out. Or haste wears off.

Jenzafar

I tend to work 'em til they whine. I've played the game so many times that it's become part of the challenge to get down to the dregs of lame spells I rarely use, and force myself to try those (and potions, too).

Apocrypha

I try to roleplay and restrict my resting to once a day, in the evening (or morning if we were adventuring all night), in a location that actually looks like a good campsite.

That said, if everyone is out of spells and badly injured, I'll go to the closest Inn and stay there. If there is no Inn, I rest and hope monsters don't attack.

SCARY_WIZARD

It tends to depend on how badly injured the party is, amount of spells in memory, and so on. Healing spells tend to be the most "critical" in this case.

mumumomo

As little as possible and trying to avoid it in most dungeons where it does not make much sense (like chateau irenicus or cloakwood mines).

I plan my playthrough in order to minimize the number of rests (which sometimes lead to taking limited risks). For example in BG1, in give most of my characters 18 in CON in order to reach 20 with the buckler and the tome. This removes the need to rest for damage.

Also, once i have wish on my sorc, i basically never rest for the rest of the game(using PI/wish until the rest option becomes available. I know it's silly because resting basically takes a lot less time than casting wish 10 times but i do hate resting)

Ravenslight

I find it very interesting to see how other role players handle resting in dungeons. Especially when they say they tend to avoid resting there, and why. For me, part of the fun is picturing my battle worn and wounded party members trying to find a safe corner of the dungeon to rest and heal their wounded. Perhaps because of my less then optimal playing skill, they tend to find themselves in need of such rest often.

Montresor_SP

I prefer to roleplay a bit by sleeping at night, but yeah - due to lack of foresight/skill/spell slots I often find myself forced to sleep in dungeons at all times of the day (but then, it's always dark down there anyway!)

Lemernis

I would say when down to roughly one quarter of the memorized spells I will typically rest. That's an average, of course.

I rest also when party members start complaining when they're fatigued, and that usually keeps me with enough spells at the ready to handle most of the game.

If I'm playing powergame/meta-game style and there is a particularly difficult fight ahead, then I'll rest before the fight to replenish spells. If playing more RP-intensive/minimal reload style I rest often as a matter of simply trying to ensure survival.

Pibaro

Mostly when I have to wait for X days to complete a quest (sometimes I just travel back and forth).
I don't like resting in dungeons, but if I have to... I rest.

Arizael

I usually rest when it makes sense. After completing a quest, before embarink a quest or after long journey. When in dungeon I rest only when it makes sense (aka before you descend to pit of the faithless) or when absolutely necessary(and than only once).

luskan

Ain't no rest for the wicked..

elminster

Actually, scratch that. I don't rest. All I do is play baldur's gate/baldur's gate 2!

Twani

I don't allow my characters to rest in dungeons, besides Irenicus (to see Imoen's dialog) (and a rare few other cases where I know a mod has dialog for rest in dungeons). If I really run out of spells, they retreat to the surface to rest and then go back down. Of course, I sometimes just CTR-J them to the surface then back to where it was, so it's not like I'm really roleplaying this. It's just one of those silly rules I make myself follow.

chickenhed

I definitely stick to as much roleplaying as I can with this one. I rest when I am in an inn or in the wilderness. I NEVER rest in dungeons. If I have to rest in a dungeon, it's time to trek back out of it and either rest outside in the "safer" wilderness, or get back to an inn.

When I enter a dungeon I try to plan it so that I do not have to rest. If that means also taking a bunch of wands, potions, and scrolls, then that's what I have to do.

jackjack

I will rest in a dungeon, but only after clearing the floor. I roleplay that someone stands guard. I think it would be cool to pick a party member to stay awake while everyone else snoozes:
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0014.html

SethDavis

I was/am super reliant on resting with spell casters. I remember playing all through NWN, getting just outside Morag's doors and running out of spells.

"No problem!" says I, "I'll just rest up here and then me and my trusty companion will go in and do battle with the evil lizard lady who I suspect is the same lizard lady who has a discomforting habit of telling me her name over and over! ... What do you mean I can't rest here... No matter, I need more potions anyway, let's just teleport-stone out and... oh... oh dear."

"Hey good buddy who has beaten the game a couple times, how do I get through this predicament?"
"Nope, you're pretty screwed. How did you even get this far? You're at least three levels lower than you should be!"
Run dies in failure.

A decade later I arrive again with a Monk, have another mini heart attack when remembering that I can't rest or leave, then stomp all over her spell casting tail. Magic resistance for the win!

Tresset

@SethDavis‌ that one got me too my first time I think (was a wizard). I had another save to reload to though from before the final area. I am pretty sure I ended up taking down all the lizards Morag gave her speech to without any spells and just beating them down with my Ravager +4 while quaffing copious amounts of healing potions. I saved all my spells for Morag herself and I beat her soundly.

wizzywazzo

I attempt to rest minimally. If a lot of game time has passed i usually feel the need to give my party a rest. I will usually rest before leaving a town. If the need to rest in a dungeon arises i will only do it in a location that looks like you could rest and is somewhat secure, i wont just rest in a hallway.

demented

SethDavis said:

I was/am super reliant on resting with spell casters. I remember playing all through NWN, getting just outside Morag's doors and running out of spells.

"No problem!" says I, "I'll just rest up here and then me and my trusty companion will go in and do battle with the evil lizard lady who I suspect is the same lizard lady who has a discomforting habit of telling me her name over and over! ... What do you mean I can't rest here... No matter, I need more potions anyway, let's just teleport-stone out and... oh... oh dear."

"Hey good buddy who has beaten the game a couple times, how do I get through this predicament?"
"Nope, you're pretty screwed. How did you even get this far? You're at least three levels lower than you should be!"
Run dies in failure.

A decade later I arrive again with a Monk, have another mini heart attack when remembering that I can't rest or leave, then stomp all over her spell casting tail. Magic resistance for the win!

Exact same thing happened to me. My wizard is still stuck there, never to escape.

It also happened to me in Planescape: Torment at Curst Prison. Combat had been relatively light up to that point and so I hadn't tried to rest in a dungeon before.

I had to use so much cheese to get through it. Dear gods, the cheese...

Radaga

I tendo to rest whenever I reach the point where my spells and HP would barely suffice to fight off a random encounter while resting.