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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8385734" data-attributes="member: 29398">Not necessarily, be it through smart use of Silence spells or attempts to be quieter* or just sheer dumb luck; and once the players figure this out they'll become a bit more cautious.* - e.g. using a padded crowbar to pry the door open slowly rather than just bashing it with shoulders and hammers.Comes back to my contention that there's too many expected-to-be-playable levels (an issue since 3e).Which - though unfortunate - makes sense, given that low-grade monsters have been toughened up such that they can present reasonable challenges for low-level PCs.  What's a commoner to do? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Agreed; and to fix it I'd prefer a design philosophy that doesn't give so many abilities so early but instead generally holds them back and more slowly metes them out as the levels advance. (corollary: I don't agree at all with those who (sometimes loudly!) proclaim that a character should be mechanically fully-formed by 3rd level, because where can you go from there that isn't straight-up power creep?)It might be poorly named but hey, what else could it be called?  I suspect Exploration, while not a great name, is probably the least-bad. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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