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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9834621" data-attributes="member: 20564">Bit of a late reply, but this is exactly what happened.Before 5e came out, the lead designer of 4e (Rob Heinsoo) and a lead designer of 3ed (Jonathan Tweet) came out with a D20 RPG called 13th Age, their "love letter to D&D" and the game that they wanted to run in their weekly Wednesday night slot.  5e shares a lot of sensibilities of streamlining, but without the need to keep certain sacred cows nor executive meddling they made the game they wanted.  And it only had 10 levels.They did, however, introduce to the game the concept of Incremental Advances. so before you level you have multiple points to pick up something from your next level,  Made leveling a bit more granular and not as long of a wait for players between playing with new stuff.Side note: 13th Age 2nd edition just came out in the second half of 2025 and I do recommend it.  It's also math-compatible with the original edition, so all adventures. monster books, and the like are still viable to use.</blockquote>