The Hidden Ability Of Elves (Everyone Forgets)

Every ability is broken in D&D.

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[DnDShorts]

So when I get four hours sleep I turn into some gollum-eske, barely functional, undead creature, but Elves get to BUFF themselves for free?

Classic anti-human propaganda by the devs.

[curathol]

Wait, people keep forgetting that?
It's the one fucking thing, I can remember about them. Half the party gets guard duty for the first four ours, the elf takes the other half.

[__Rodrigo__]

When i sleep 4 hours a night i get shaky hands and yawn all day and elves get all that...

[TheLegoLord]

Before people get big ideas, you can't benefit from more than one long rest in a 24-hour period (phb, page 186, Long Rest, 3rd part). So you can't take a 4 hour long rest, get all your spell slots and use them, then take another one to get refresh again. The way it was told in the video was correct, granted you can only do it if you have spell slots remaining for it the day before and you start your casting and then long rest when the rest has already done 4 hours of theirs.

[colleen]

I have never seen someone who plays an elf forget trance.

[tomaszjackowski]

Now, to create a team with only Elves and other creatures who sleep only 4 hours.

[aroseydragon]

Not to mention you are technically still aware of your surroundings for the whole duration which will make any would be threats have a harder time trying to sneak up on you if the whole party is taking a rest

[redwarrior]

I think the reason for this is that the rules actually changed. It used to be that elves still needed a full long rest, but could do light activity for half of it. But with the change to the rules from an Errata, Elves can do this.

[irontemplar]

It's not forgotten about. Its literally that most DMs handle long rests as just. "Ok that was 8 hours let's go." So unless he wants to let you go off and do your own solo thing. Your just not gonna get to use it.

[CompWiz]

All races can do this, but better.

When there's 1 minutes left in the long rest period(4/8 hours) stop resting and cast all the long duration spells you want.

This will interrupt your long rest(the time you spend casting doesn't count toward the hours of long rest), but as long as you limit it to under 1 hour(total strenuous activity before finishing the long rest), you can continue the long rest where you left off.

So, after casting spells for less than 1 hour, lay down, complete the last 1 minute required for the long rest, and all your spell slots return as soon as the long rest is over.

[XionDarkblood]

Thanks for including Thranduil fighting from the Hobbit. He is one of the coolest elves in that movie and shows where Legolas gets it from. I love the Hobbit movies, despite their flaws.

[isaiahwelch]

Actually, I look at perhaps the actual 2 overlooked features of Elves: 1, the fact that Wood Elves get a +5 feet to their movement; and 2, the feat that allows an Elf Ranger or Elf Rogue to make a distance attack, without revealing their position.

The ability I got wrong is Mask of the Wild from the PHB, p. 24, Traits of Wood Elves.

Basically, the idea is that a Wood Elf can attempt to hide even when _lightly_ obscured by natural phenomena, such as light rain, mist, fog, etc.

I believe that in some of the supplementary material that Elves are treated as if they have Hide in Plain Sight, which not only gives the ability to hide in many more conditions, but an Elf that has Hide in Plain Sight is treated as if he has a passive +10 Pass Without a Trace ability buff.

[jonsimpson]

Any third edition support caster: "look what lengths they must go to mimic a fraction of our power."

[notesmaker]

I have a theory that elves absorb magic by default. This would explain why there are so many subraces of them despite their long life, and also their innate spell casting and magical abilities. One might also add that because magic buffs people up, Elves would definitely be restoring a lot more per rest any other race out there. Hence, the 4-hour long rest and longest of lifespans

[garypotter]

Two words: Drizzt Do'Urden
He needs his own movie series.

[gheefreak]

Emily Axford used the hell out of that feature in the first season of NADDPOD. She plays a crick elf (wood elf but hillbilly) druid, and especially in the back half of the campaign, when they're at higher levels, she gets up in the middle of the long rest, cooks a hero's feast and then goes back to bed, and everyone eats it for breakfast. She's got a couple other things she does too.

[LocalMaple]

Also, Coffeelocks can take a 4-hour long rest, then chain 4 short rests for sorcery points.

[sabotooth]

Just another reason why we use sanctuary rest rules- a night of sleep in the wilderness is a short rest, you can take a long rest in the safety of a town or fortress or sanctuary of some sort. Makes the "adventuring day" work with 1-2 combats per day and evens out some of the jank luke this. It also makes ranger exhaustion recovery even better. The party can use short 15-30 minute breaks like "shorter rests" to use a hit die to recover during the day.

[matthewniemann]

They only have to "sleep" for 4 hours. They still have to spend the other 4 hours doing light activity such as reading or keeping watch to get the benefit of a long rest

[blue-eyeswhitekirbo]

My favorite is foresight, a for all intents and purposes free ninth level slot that gives you advantage on everything, you can’t be surprised, and enemies have disadvantage against you, very fun.