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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 3940648" data-attributes="member: 198">You can have it just fine, but you need to put in a little effort for it. Luckily, the growth and availability of power in the game isn't handled by WotC, but by the DM. Just level your PCs more slowly and remove a couple of their powers if it bothers you so much. And make sure to scale the challenges to fit the character power levels. It's nice to define heroes as ordinary folks that did extraordinary things, but since this is a game, the kind of extraordinary things one can do is very heavily limited by the power one actually has. Characters in a novel have plot immunity, which is why things like Lord of the Rings, much as I love it and the rest of Tolkien's works, are usually a horrible analogy for D&D games. If you're going to make your PCs 2nd lvl, don't drop a hill giant on them. The only extraordinary thing they'll be doing is dying. So set and adjust the power levels as you want and run with it, and keep a careful eye out for consequences. That's all you need to do.</blockquote>