A Long Rest is a 6-hour rest period during which the party sets up camp, eats and drinks, and each character performs one Rest Activity. Long Rests can only be taken once per 24 hours.
After completing a Long Rest, all “Once per Long Rest” abilities reset.
Quick Reference
Long Rest Procedure:
- Set up camp (wilderness only — 🏊 END + 🏕 Survival Group Test)
- Assign Lookout (at least one recommended)
- Eat and drink (1 food + 1 drink)
- Choose one Rest Activity (Sleep, Provide Care, Repair/Craft, Read, Scavenge, Lookout)a
- Resolve activities and reset “Once per Long Rest” abilities
Frequency: Once per 24 hours Duration: ~6 hours
Long Rest Procedure
Step 1: Set Up Camp (Wilderness Only)
If the party is not in a town or settlement, they must set up camp before resting. This is a Group Test using 🏊 END + 🏕 Survival.
| Camp Result | Effect |
|---|---|
| Good Camp (Group Test success with Leader CRIT) | All party members gain +2 ⏱ Sequence and 5 Temp HP until the next Long Rest |
| Normal Camp (Group Test success) | No bonus, no penalty. Rest proceeds normally. |
| Failed Camp (Group Test failure) | The GM determines a consequence. This may include: alerting nearby hostile groups, increased chance of ambush, environmental hazards, or uncomfortable conditions that reduce rest effectiveness. A failed camp should never completely prevent rest, only make it more difficult. |
If the party is in a town or settlement, camp setup is skipped. The party has access to shelter and may proceed directly to activities. Town services (doctor, merchant, etc.) are available as activity options.
Step 2: Assign Lookout
If the party is resting in the wilderness, at least one party member should be assigned as a Lookout. The Lookout keeps watch for threats during the rest.
The Lookout makes a 👁 PER + 🏕 Survival Test to detect approaching threats. The GM sets the 📊 Difficulty based on the environment and the approaching threat’s stealth.
| Lookout Result | Effect |
|---|---|
| Success | Threats detected. The party is woken with time to prepare — they may equip weapons, take positions, and enter combat normally. |
| Failure | Threats not detected. The party is 😲 Surprised — enemies get a surprise round. Sleeping characters start combat Prone with nothing in their Weapon Slots or Quick Slots. Armor remains equipped. |
If no Lookout is assigned, the party automatically fails to detect any ambush. All sleeping characters start combat Surprised, Prone, and without equipped weapons or quick items.
Lookout is a Rest Activity.
The character assigned to Lookout cannot Sleep, Repair/Craft, Read, or Scavenge. They sacrifice their rest activity for the party’s safety.
Step 3: Eat and Drink
Each character consumes 1 food item and 1 drink item. Food and drink provide HP restoration and may grant temporary buffs or impose side effects depending on the item consumed.
Characters who do not eat or drink gain a stack of 😫 Exhaustion.
Step 4: Choose a Rest Activity
Each character selects one Rest Activity for the Long Rest. You may only perform one activity — choose carefully.
Rest Activities
Sleep
You sleep for the duration of the rest, allowing your body to recover.
HP Recovery: Roll 1d20 + 🏊 END MOD. Restore that many HP. This is in addition to any HP gained from food and drink.
The Faster Healing perk adds 1d8 HP per rank to this roll.
Injury Mending: For each Crippled limb, roll an 🏊 END + 🏕 Survival Test. On success, the injury’s severity is reduced by 1 tier (Incapacitation → Major → Minor → Healed).
| Injury Severity | Mend 📊 Difficulty |
|---|---|
| 🤕 Minor Injury | 10 |
| 🤕 Major Injury | 15 |
| 🤕 Incapacitation | 20 |
You may attempt to mend each injured limb once during Sleep.
Receive Care
If a party member is performing the Provide Care activity (see below), sleeping characters under their care receive enhanced healing:
- Bonus HP: Add the caregiver’s ⚕ Medicine skill to your Sleep HP recovery
- Item-Based Treatment: The caregiver may use medical items to treat your injuries using the item-based ⚕ Medicine system. The caregiver rolls the ⚕ Medicine Tests, not you.
Provide Care
You spend the rest tending to your sleeping party members’ wounds, using medical items from your inventory to treat injuries more effectively than self-mending.
- This applies to all sleeping party members — you do not need to choose a single patient
- Sleeping characters under your care receive the following benefits:
- Bonus HP: Add the caregiver’s ⚕ Medicine skill to their Sleep HP recovery
- Item-Based Treatment: You may use medical items from your inventory to treat injuries on sleeping characters. Each treatment uses the item-based ⚕ Medicine system — the appropriate medical items are consumed and you roll 🧠 INT + ⚕ Medicine vs the injury’s 📊 Difficulty. Treatment quality (Proper/Adequate/Improvised) applies based on items available. You may only attempt to treat each 🤕 Injury once.
- Having a First Aid Kit (-2 DC) or Doctor’s Bag (-5 DC) reduces the Difficulty of all treatment Tests during Provide Care
- You do not Sleep — you do not recover HP from Sleep or mend your own injuries
- You may still eat and drink normally
The Massachusetts Surgical Journal Book Perk allows you to provide medical attention AND read the book at the same time — this is the only way to perform two rest activities simultaneously.
Repair / Craft
You spend the rest maintaining equipment, crafting items, or performing modifications at an available workstation. This follows normal 🔧 Repair and 🔨 Crafting rules and requires appropriate resources.
You may perform any combination of the following during a single Long Rest:
- Repair up to 5 items (weapons, armor, or other repairable objects) using ⚪ Scrap, Repair Kit charges, or duplicate combining
- Craft items at an available workstation (weapon/armor mods, chems, cooked food, improvised items)
- Refill Repair Kit and 🧰 Toolkit charges at a Workbench using ⚪ Scrap
- Dismantle items into ⚪ Scrap at a Workbench
See 🔨 Crafting for full crafting rules, workstation requirements, and perk prerequisites.
Repairing Robots: For Robot characters who cannot Sleep, being Repaired during a Long Rest provides the equivalent benefits of Sleep for a biological character:
- HP Recovery: The repairer rolls 🧠 INT + 🔧 Repair instead of the Robot’s 🏊 END. The Robot regains HP equal to the roll result.
- Injury Mending: The repairer may attempt to mend the Robot’s injuries using 🧠 INT + 🔧 Repair Tests instead of 🏊 END + 🏕 Survival. The same 📊 Difficulty thresholds apply (DC 10 Minor, DC 15 Major, DC 20 Incapacitation).
- Resource Cost: 1 Repair Kit charge for HP recovery. 1 🧰 Toolkit charge for all injury mending attempts (covers all limbs).
- Repairing a Robot counts toward the 5 item limit for the rest.
Read a Book
You spend the rest reading a Book. Upon completing the book, you gain its Book Perk, which can be used once before the next Long Rest (at which point it expires if unused).
- You do not Sleep — you do not recover HP from Sleep or mend your own injuries
- You may still eat and drink normally
- You may re-read a book you have previously read to regain its Book Perk
- Characters with the Comprehension perk may assign previously-used Book Perks to their permanent Book Perk Slots during this time
Scavenge
You spend the rest exploring the surrounding area for useful resources.
- The GM determines what is available based on the location
- Relevant perks (Can Do!, Pharma Farma, Scrounger, Fortune Finder) may apply
- The Wasteland Survivor milestone (🏕 Survival +5) enhances scavenging capabilities
- You do not Sleep — you do not recover HP from Sleep or mend your own injuries
- You may still eat and drink normally
- See Scavenging for full details
Lookout
You keep watch over the camp for the duration of the rest. See Step 2 above.
- You do not Sleep — you do not recover HP from Sleep or mend your own 🤕 Injuries
- You may still eat and drink normally
Town Services (Town/Settlement Only)
When resting in a town or settlement, you may use your activity to access local services:
- Visit a Doctor — Professional medical care, may heal HP and mend 🤕 Injuries more effectively than self-care
- Shop — Buy and sell goods with local merchants
- Gather Information — Talk to locals, investigate leads, gather intel
- Other — The GM may offer additional services based on the settlement
Rest Activities Summary
| Activity | Heals HP? | Mends Injuries? | Other Benefits | Available To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep | Yes (1d20 + 🏊 END MOD) | Yes (🏊 END + 🏕 Survival Test per limb) | Primary recovery method | Biological characters |
| Receive Care | Enhanced Sleep | Medical item-based treatment | Requires caregiver | Sleeping characters |
| Provide Care | No | No (self) | Treat all sleeping allies with medical items | Medicine-focused characters |
| Repair / Craft | No (self) | No (self) | Fix up to 5 items. Craft at workstations. Heals Robots. | Anyone with Repair skill |
| Read a Book | No | No | Gain a Book Perk | Anyone with a Book |
| Scavenge | No | No | Find resources | Anyone |
| Lookout | No | No | Detect ambush threats | Anyone |
| Town Services | Varies | Varies | Access settlement resources | Town/Settlement only |
Robot Rest Rules
Robots do not sleep, eat food, or drink water. During a Long Rest, Robots have the following considerations:
- Robots do not eat or drink. They are immune to 😫 Exhaustion.
- Robots cannot Sleep. They do not benefit from the Sleep activity.
- Robots can be Repaired. A party member performing the Repair/Craft activity can restore a Robot’s HP and mend their injuries. See the Repair/Craft activity above. Costs 1 Repair Kit charge for HP recovery and 1 Toolkit charge for all injury mending attempts.
- Robots can self-repair if they have sufficient 🔧 Repair skill. This uses their own Rest Activity — they spend the rest fixing themselves instead of doing something else.
- Robots can perform any other activity: Lookout, Read, Scavenge, Repair/Craft (others’ equipment), or Town Services.
Robots make excellent Lookouts since they don’t need Sleep and don’t benefit from it. Assigning a Robot to Lookout duty is efficient because it doesn’t cost the party a “lost” Sleep slot.