I find modern players tend to want to be neither of those things. They’re not adventurers or heroes. They’re just some dudes with their own characterization tha

I find modern players tend to want to be neither of those things. They’re not adventurers or heroes. They’re just some dudes with their own characterization that somehow get looped into a quest and just sort of become very powerful by accident. Self awareness of how ridiculous the typical TTRPG power scaling is makes this pretty common imo. A random dude, can / should canonically go from level 1 to a pretty high level over the course of an in game month if they’re busy doing things. At which point they’re basically a superhero relative to your average level 0 commoner peasant. Power gains are linear, but it’s a very steep climb.