Respite is live

Ionrift Respite v1.0.0 is tagged and available. Replaces the default DnD5e rest dialog with a structured rest flow - terrain, shelter, survival, campfire, the lot.

I've been running this in my own sessions for a while now. The default rest button in Foundry always felt like a missed opportunity - click, sleep, full HP. Rests should cost something, or at least feel like they happened. So I built a replacement.

How it works in practice:

GM picks the terrain and shelter level, which sets the encounter DC and comfort tier. Players each pick a camp activity from their own screen - keep watch, scout, study, pray, or just sleep. The campfire runs as a side panel with a little physics sim (drag kindling from inventory to feed it - fire level affects comfort and encounter modifiers). Then events pull from terrain-weighted pools - encounters, complications, discoveries. Nat 1 is always a disaster. Nat 20 is always a discovery.

Meals are optional but tracked - drag rations and water onto characters. Miss too many meals in a row and the CON saves start stacking. Then resolution handles HP, hit dice, spell slots, and exhaustion based on how rough the night was. Each player gets a private whisper with what they recovered.

Short rests have their own flow too - hit die spending UI, shelter toggle (Rope Trick works), class feature recovery.

There are 6 core terrains shipping (forest, desert, dungeon, swamp, tavern, urban) with branching event trees for each. More terrains and event packs will follow as content drops.

Install:

Search "Ionrift Respite" in the Foundry module browser (waiting on approval)

or install via manifest:

https://github.com/ionrift-gm/ionrift-respite/releases/latest/download/module.json

Requires Ionrift Library.

This is the first public release so there will be rough edges. If something breaks or feels off, GitHub issues or a message here are both fine.

Thanks for being here. More coming. 🧡