Quote Originally Posted by Talakeal View Post
For the low level character, battling an owl-bear or a band of orcs is a terrifying life or death conflict, for the players its just another CR appropriate encounter with a minuscule chance of player death.
But those two things don't match. I mean they don't have to match exactly, but to me I feel going from a mechanically trivial encounter to a narratively "terrifying life or death conflict" is just too big of a gap. Maybe I'm just a crazy person ranting about how system matters, but there you have it.