You want to feel progress, so your ability numbers go up. Then the DCs have to go up because you need to feel like you are using your heightened abilities. It's really a part of the same treadmill of fighting monsters with higher AC/more HP/etc.
We can't stay at 1st level forever in this genre of game, so I understand it, even if it breaks verisimilitude.
So why does it now take a DC 35 to climb a wall or break down a door? Well, that door or wall has been magically enchanted - I guess?
We can't stay at 1st level forever in this genre of game, so I understand it, even if it breaks verisimilitude.
So why does it now take a DC 35 to climb a wall or break down a door? Well, that door or wall has been magically enchanted - I guess?