The Broken 'Long Rest Glitch' in D&D

is this even a combo, or just a hidden super power for some spells?

[DnDShorts]

Many newer players can get confused by the "four hour long rest" thing, but it really is as simple as it sounds! Reborn, Elves, and to a lesser extent Warforged and Autognomes can all rest trick!

[daviddelille]

Extended Spell Metamagic breaks this even further. Mage armor now lasts 16 hours.

[sebastienlecmpte]

"Can I do it in our game? Fuck no!" is pretty much this channel's catchphrase.😅

[gyletre]

The infamous example of this is with Goodberry. Every single spell slot you did not use the day before can be turned into 10 hp of out of combat healing, without ever turning to shenanigans, as it has a 24 hour duration.
There will be no such thing as an unused spell slot when you have that. Downtime is suddenly much more powerful, as all spell slots can be used to do this. (a lvl 5 druid will gain 90 hp worth of berry healing from a single downtime day)

[AnimeNPC.]

The first 4 hours of your day are uneventful. At the 5th hour 3d6 Ancient Red Dragons appear.

[Domaik_]

For the first 4 hours of the adventuring day...that's the important part right there.

[Natural_Power]

There's also spells that last longer than 8h

Any druid can spend all their remaining spellslots on Goodberries before a long rest

The spell creates 10 berries, containing nutrients for a whole day, and healing 1 HP each, lasting 24h

If you have 3 spellslots remaining, that's 30HP that can be healed out of combat the next day

[Elbinac]

Ok so your party wakes up at five AM.
Skips breakfast cus gotta make the most of the pre-buffs!
Heads out and... doesn't encounter enemies until two in the afternoon.. wait that can't be right.

[elbruces]

"Can I do it in our game?"
"Ah ha ha, fuck no."
This is how every single one of this guy's videos should end.

[matthewconlon]

Sorcerer with Extend Spell metamagic and Tiny Servants are gonna riggedy riggedy wreck your foes with hand crossbows.

[MegaFrog]

"Sleep isnt the same thing as a long rest. Elves don't need sleep, but they do need downtime to regain their strength."
Jeremy Crawford, January 6th, 2015 (Twitter)

[melonlab]

I feel like the ending is how many of these situations play out. Like "aww neat, but you will not be doing that at this table...

[badnewsBH]

Just make sure all combats take place in the afternoon.

[ainadagurmawth]

Older editions didn't have this trick. The time it took to recover spell slots was set. Elves may have shorter rest times to physically recover, but magic is magic...
Actually a fun one for clerics that many people missed, is that they could elect a specified prayer time instead of rest. Such as praying to the first light of dawn. You get all your spells after that hour of prayer, but if you missed it, you had to go a full day without recovery. (having a noon prayer time is fun, getting a 'long rest' for spell slots mid day XD)

[mihajlojovanovic]

"And just as you get up before anyone else, a random plank I absolutely didn't use as an anti fun measure falls on you, not damaging you but putting you back to sleep"

[mrpurple]

Here’s an idea for a mad lad playing a high level caster: every day for 23 days you will cast wish, replicating the effects of glyph of warding, which will store the spell enlarge reduce (namely the enlarge portion), storing all these in a notebook with the trigger words Robert J Oppenheimer. You then cast delayed blast fireball, creating the bead, utter the trigger words having the target be the bead of fire, and the 20 ft radius suddenly becomes 126 million ft, engulfing the world in a fiery rebirth :D

[gaidencastro]

You can also be a Sorcerer and use metamagic to make 8-hour spells last 16 hours, so they'll be up after your long rest regardless of what race you're playing.

[DramakilzU]

Two things to note:
1)You can’t gain the benefits of a long rest more than once in a 24-hour period (PHB 186).

2) Unless the whole party decides to play races that only need 4 hours to get a long rest, this offers little mechanical benefit since the party has to wait for each player to finish a long rest before adventuring. Sure an elf can be a good lookout during a long rest, but the elf can’t just go off by itself because splitting the party is really risky.

If a party wanted to pick races that could finish a long rest in 4 hours just for this exploit, I think the DM would turn it down.

[lordmars]

Our local munchkin asked me that, I said we're already abstracting 8 hour spells into adventuring day spells. I'm not going to nickel and dime minutes and hours to help an exploit for 1 player.

[Delfinoplazaresident]

Warlocks: Look at what they use to mimic a fraction of our power!