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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GM Lent" data-source="post: 7076441" data-attributes="member: 6798775">You woke up one morning and had suddenly completed First Grade (I assume). You didn't complete all the work necessary to do that in the day or even the week prior, but on that day you had quantifiably and reliably met the benchmarks and standards for having reached a new "level." Were you able to do anything you weren't able to do the day before? No, but now you could do it all consistently and reliably. Because of this, you were now prepared to begin learning the next phase of skills and capabilities, which would eventually be quantified in you passing (I assume) Second Grade or your country's equivalent.  This is how I view levels in D&D, and all the other abstract components of the game that depend on the idea of "levels." Nobody learn how to optimize the use of a pole weapon overnight, but after training and working with them for however long it takes, they hit a point where they can reliably and consistently smack somebody with the back end of a long-hafted weapon in combat, and can quickly smack somebody with the main end if that person gets too close. The game represents this by that character take the Polearm Master feat.Does a person wake up one day suddenly stronger or faster or smarter than they were the day before? Probably not, but they likely wake up one day and discover that they can consistently bench press more than they could before or dance across a balance beam successfully every time or remember the long poem they were struggling to commit to memory. The game represents this by allowing a character to increase their ability scores.I have never understood why people have issues with a level-based system of advancement. I get complaints that D&D magic doesn't work the way it does in most fantasy literature, but problems with a level/reward system seem to ignore that the entire (real) world is based on exactly that kind of system.</blockquote>

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