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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8563815" data-attributes="member: 29398">Which points directly at another change over the decades: at one time the PCs were for the most part seen as being an integral part of their community in the setting.  Joe the farmhand who became a low-level Fighter was very much still Joe the farmhand underneath it all.  Callie the low-level Cleric was still very recognizable by her fellow villagers as Callie the sometimes-bumbling acolyte.  And so on.Now, and the Avengers example makes this clear, the PCs are being made more and more remote from their own communities even at level 1.  By the time Joe becomes a low-level Fighter his farmhand days (and, more importantly, his days of thinking like a farmhand) are long since behind him.  Callie as a low-level Cleric probably hasn't seen her home village in years.This change reached its peak in 4e; 5e has dialled it back a bit but there's still a far-too-big gap between a commoner and a 1st-level PC.</blockquote>