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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8859165" data-attributes="member: 93670">Mine didn't have  death like they were some kind of dcc funnel either.  Death was definitely close enough that one of my most vivid memories is trying to kill an almost dead ghoul while clinging to the cave wall/ceiling  using my bow as a thrown weapon because firing it would need two hands when I needed one to hang onto the wall out of reach. 5e PCs are so insulated from risk that they make wolverine look a little squishy.Puffinforest does a nice little bit about the [spoiler="social classes"][MEDIA=youtube]r89J0-vsq_g:407[/MEDIA][/spoiler]Backgrounds shift PCs into the shoes of actual social classes without any of the risks & responsibilities that go with those shoes allowing them to occupy a quantum social class of adventurer as well as their background whenever one or the other is useful but never when one is a problem because adventurers are godlike entities capable of depopulating entire cities before lunch.  Coupled with everything else PCs no longer risk or need & it becomes a big mess</blockquote>