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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8049217" data-attributes="member: 29398">Surprise, surprise. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I don't find this unsatisfactory, in that it's consistent and both players and PCs know what to expect: an Ogre against neophytes is deadly but an Ogre against highly-trained professionals is a pushover.The issue there is the power curve of the PCs is too steep, more on that below.Numerically weakening specific creatures as the PCs get stronger steepens the power curve - you can't argue against that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Pre-Unearthed 1e had a fairly flat power curve in comparison, in part because most of the time play only had to factor in 9-12 levels of PC power increase rather than 20 or 30.  I really think that's part of the problem with WotC-era design: they want lots of levels because people love their new powerz, but in trying to find new powers to give for each level (because it seems not getting new stuff at a level-up isn't cool) they end up with a power curve problem leading to high-level play far too closely resembling a supers game.The answer, of course, is to either reduce the number of levels and make each level last longer (so 5e would only be designed for 1-10 and left open-ended after that); or to make half the levels "dead" in terms of gaining anything other than more hit points (so, in 5e you'd go 1-20 but only the odd-numbered levels would grant any power-ups)My enjoyment is in large part rooted in the setting being consistent with itself: that the mountain we passed on our way north will still be there on our way south, that the Ogre I meet at 12th level will be largely the same as the Ogre I met at 2nd level (i.e. only I will have changed), that if this guy has 1 hit point when I-as-PC hit him he's got 1 hit point when anyone in the setting hits him, that sort of thing.Overall, that PCs are an integral part of the game world and not some separate thing.</blockquote>

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