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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7477371" data-attributes="member: 15700">Maybe it's a cultural shift thing in what we're exposed to as gamers.  Video games now, and have for awhile, blasted trumpet music and sent light beams streaming from the heavens every time you level up.  DING!!!!  Woohoo!  I leveled up!  Kind of like how leveling up was the point of the game, and all those battles between stories was just grinding that really doesn't matter.  Wasn't like that before.  Before, leveling was just bookkeeping, while the battles in between WERE the story.   So maybe people got used to how video games made such a big deal about it, that a TTRPG like 5e seems mellow by comparison because the focus is different.Who knows.</blockquote>