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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9541286" data-attributes="member: 11760">Because the numbers scale a lot faster in 5E. A random nobleman who might decide to duel a player character because he felt shown up by the PCs at a dinner party, etc., is going to have to be one of the greatest swordsmen in the world if the PCs are over level 7 or so. It strains credulity that every village and keep has incredibly high level characters hanging around, just so the PCs can get into real mortal danger.In comparison, OSR games have much flatter math. A level five Shadowdark character (roughly the equivalent of a level 10 5E character) could easily get killed in a duel with a level 3 knight NPC.Can you make 5E as dangerous as OSR games? Yes, but it requires special effort, as I said.</blockquote>