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GMs/DMs - what's the highest level character you've ever had in your campaign?

Started by ZWEIHÄNDER, August 29, 2012, 05:39:37 PM

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ZWEIHÄNDER

August 29, 2012, 05:39:37 PM
I ran a D&D campaign, starting with AD&D and was rolled through every version up to 3.5. The highest level character was 16th level. This campaign was nearly 10 years in the making, playing continuously week by week.

When we played around with D&D 4e, we had characters around 12th level. Growth was much, much faster. We played this campaign for a year and a few months, playing weekly.

When I was running a world-agnostic Warhammer system, I had players in their second advanced career. This was over the course of a year and a half. We played weekly.

With the ZWEIHÄNDER system, players just hit their intermediate tier. This is over the course of 5 months; we play every Thursday.
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Sacrosanct

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August 29, 2012, 05:42:20 PM
I've done a lot of playtesting running games, so I've had players all the way up to end game.  In traditional AD&D, starting from level 1, the highest level the players achieved in a campaign I was DMing was level 11 or 12.
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The Butcher

#2
August 29, 2012, 05:45:14 PM
15th level with the D&D RC. We played weekly. Ah, 8th grade...

Benoist

#3
August 29, 2012, 06:15:22 PM
I'd have to look back, but I think it was level 16ish, 3rd ed D&D.

Panzerkraken

#4
August 29, 2012, 07:15:15 PM
I've run several 3.5 1-20 games, but usually by the time I've suffered with having PC's in the high teens I have no interest in epic level games.

I think the highest level a PC got to was 23.

The highest level recurring villan I've used was a level 36 Suel Archanomach Elder Vampire who was the long-undead relative of one of the PC's and caused no end of trouble for them, to the point of openly dropping by the PC's brothel one evening with a gang of followers.

"Oh, pardon me, I just thought I would drop by for a bite."

Yeah, cheesy, but it was fun at the time.
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Black Vulmea

#5
August 29, 2012, 08:00:06 PM
AD&D low teens. 3e mid-teens.
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#6
August 29, 2012, 08:08:55 PM
AD&D low teens. 3e mid-teens.
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LordVreeg

#7
August 29, 2012, 08:16:08 PM
This thread seems to assume D&D...so AD&D 10 thru 13,after 2.5 years...dorm life.
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#8
August 29, 2012, 11:04:36 PM
Level 24. High School. Discovered that Epic Level DnD was a disaster zone at least for me. The players loved it and would ask me to run it again to which they, and anyone else who asks, are met with a very firm NO.
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#9
August 29, 2012, 11:10:31 PM
In the campaign from '88-'93, the wizard survived the entire campaign and retired at 20th level.  Nobody else survived the whole time - character death and character swappage, etc.  

It was pretty awesome, because then at that point the whole thing was about one character's career (in hindsight, of course), the different groups he had run with, the messes they had gotten into, etc.

That was weekly play with occasional multiple sessions per week (three cheers for high school!).
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#10
August 30, 2012, 01:51:04 AM
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#11
August 30, 2012, 04:31:51 AM
AD&D: around 6th level
Midgard: some characters just breaking 8th level

(everything else was not level-based, one very short-lived campaigns)
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