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True. In my own campaigns PCs stop being pure mortals at level 13 and my Odin is just level 20, but that's just me lol. I know my takes are the odd one out.

So, speaking as someone whose focus as a player in RPGs is maximum immersion resonance with my character (speaking in particular to the segment of the game where resurrection isn't exactly on the table)... I don't want to die, and I don't want to be numbed to death (that of myself or of a...

Just curious... Do you apply the same requirements to Odin himself? Does he have to use the Bifrost if he feels like visiting other planes?

Hasn't that been the case going all the way back to OD&D? Managing spells, hitpoints, torches, rations, encumbrance, henchmen..... A few things left the pile for convenience sake, but that's basically Dungeons and Dragons isn't it? Lol

I feel like defining people entirely by one job is a little sketch... They adventured when it suited them to adventure, they aren't cursed or honor bound to Adventure the rest of their lives. Imo, there is a lot of merit to the idea that conventional 'adventuring' is something lesser beings do...

Chinese Fantasy (the crazy stuff, not Wuxia) has a solution to this. There comes a point where the protagonist outgrows the minor world they grew up on and they ascend to a wider, greater world. Some things resemble the lower level events, but the good stories allow the tone and flow to...

I mean, that's just a question of setting right? Surely Odin's palace is going to have wards against any form of uninvited teleportation, so at most they're going to be planeshifting just outside the front gate and have to submit a petition to see him or try their luck at barging through his...

When the system is predicated on 'leveling up,' when there are dead levels in there to space out abilities, when everything is built on a sense of progression through a chart instead of making each level it's own big deal... You're going to be waiting. In an ideal world I could pick... 4th...

Am I the only one who doesn't want a 'feeling of advancement' as a goal? For me, I want to enjoy the level I'm at, to roleplay there without concern for the next level up, without expectations or hopes for the next level up. I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam... Until I break through...

EDIT: And now that I edited this since it was flagged for moderation it seems unflagged... Moderator. I accidentally double posted and if you're seeing this it means I still haven't figured out how to delete it. Sorry for the trouble ^~^

There is definitely merit to the workday design as well. Spells as solutions to problems and the deliberation on when to burn them vs conserve them is an interesting scenario. Though it loses a bit of its value in 5E where nobody is preparing slot by slot anymore.