Because me and a few people started playing the EA trying to take as few long rests as possible, I wanted to know if people:
Try to take as few LRs as possible
Take LRs after every fight
or use some other metric (every new region for instance)
And, I'm curious to get an idea how many long rests people take in their typical run throughs.
Also, I'm not interested long rests taken just to see camp scenes, part of the reason for the poll is to see how big the disconnect between the camp scenes and the game play is, considering each companion has 3+ scenes that trigger upon taking a long rest, with some only occurring after finishing the Goblin/Grove conflict, so someone like me will at some point have to spam, to see them.
I also made a provisional list of the engagements to help me work out how I usually run through the EA, I'm probably missing a few.
Engagements
Major: Spider Matriarch, Hag's Lair, Githyanki, Duergar(Cole), Spectator, Duergar(Nere), The Three Bosses, Attacking the Grove, Attack the Goblin Camp, Boo-aal
Situational: Windmill Fight, Gnoll Flind, Red Caps, Ship Fight, Ancient Tree Fight(Bog), Ancient Tree Fight(Hook Horrors), False Paladins, Grym, Robot guy in the tower, Lump
Minor: Back Route to Grove, Harpies, Goblin Camp Guards, Gnoll/Hyenas, Owlbear, Minotaurs, Goblins Protecting Halsin, Druid Sanctum, Ruined Chapel fights, Ettercap/Phase Spiders
By my reckoning, major engagements are ones that you might want to go into rested or rest after. Situational engagements, are ones that might be a major or minor engagement but for some mechanic, so the Windmill fight has enough mobs to bump up its difficulty, but unless you intentionally avoid attacking the leader you'll never really have to worry about it, or the Gnoll Flind Fight, it's pretty tough but if you take the high ground, well, maybe it's still a major engagement, but It still usually only warrants a SR for me. Minor engagements aren't enough on their own to force a SR or LR but might tip you over the edge with other fights.
How I designate these fights is pretty subjective the further away from the big ones you go, but those are the fights I typically take a long rest after.
With this in mind, I'd say I average 6-8 Long Rests each run, more if I want to be thorough. I've been skipping a few of the side bosses (usually the bog fights), but I'll always hit the Three Bosses, the Githyanki and make it to the Nere fight. And of course, if I'm a Wizard you can add another rest or two.
