What's the highest level your regular 4e game has reached?

[GMforPowergamers]

You guys play a lot..

yes and no...

the first epic game we didn't do X we just did 1 game per level with 4-6 hour games...

the second one to get there was longer...

I run every tuesdaynight, I play atleast twice a week on top of that...oh and I have no life...

 

[Bold or Stupid]

My first 4e campaign has just hit 25, midway through an altered Kingdom of the Ghouls.

 

[Wormwood]

My Scales of War campaign just hit 16th---and the characters are really kicking some ass.

Which, as a DM, is *awesome* to watch.

 

[Pseudonym]

Quick question to all the 4e players and DMs out there: What the highest level have your 4e campaigns reached?

With the end of our last session, we had just reached 6th level. Our game is once a month, about four to five fours a session, so the pace of things is slow, but fun.

 

[davethegame]

Group I'm running just hit 14, been playing roughly bi-weekly (with some breaks) since the game came out. I had expected to roughly reboot the campaign at every tier, but my heroic tier plot ended up spilling out to encompass all of paragon too.

 

[MerricB]

Group I'm running just hit 14, been playing roughly bi-weekly (with some breaks) since the game came out. I had expected to roughly reboot the campaign at every tier, but my heroic tier plot ended up spilling out to encompass all of paragon too.

Poor design, Dave!

Cheers!

 

[Dannager]

16th level in a game that started at 1st, and still going strong.

 

[Lancelot]

5 hour sessions x 1.5 sessions per week since 4e was released.

Highest campaign to date was 19th level - a 4e version of the complete original Dragonlance saga. The party TPK'ed heroically against an Aspect of Takhisis (Tiamat) after making it all the way through 'til DL 14 - Dragons of Triumph. Thirty sessions exactly.

Our first 4e campaign TPK'ed at 12th level. Our new weekly campaign is only at 3rd level, but we have a monthly-ish campaign that has reached 14th level.

As a side-note, my experience is that (using homebrew and adapted 1e/2e modules) "module speed" is only marginally impacted by the paragon tier. We can usually do 6 solid "encounters" in a 5-hour heroic-tier adventure with 4 players. 4 of those are usually combats, and 2 are major skill challenges or long roleplaying segments (e.g. 30 minutes negotiating with NPCs). At paragon level, I found that our "module speed" dropped to about 5 encounters. Usually, that involved me dropping one of the four combats. That's a significant improvement for *my group* (your mileage may vary) over 3e, where I found that we could only do 2 combats per session towards the tail-end of adventure paths like Age of Worms.

Of course, I haven't seen 4e Epic level yet... and I haven't DM'ed any of the WotC 4e modules. Most combats I design involve low-hp, high-damage creatures, and I try to use the standard DM tricks like hand-waving the closing rounds of the fight once the outcome is no longer in doubt (the monsters retreat, surrender, or "...you mop up the rest without any further difficulty").

 

[Netherstorm]

When 4e first came out, I ran a converted Shackled City campaign that hit 16th level in about 33 sessions. My converted encounters were very simple, with small rooms and little terrain, so we could often do 5 encounters in a six-hour session!

With that done, I started a Scales of War campaign at a local hobby store, where we play 3 hours a week. We've played 56 sessions and they are at 14th level. It's slow going, but the people are fun.

And I also run a converted Savage Tide campaign. We play about 4 hours a session. They're 11th level in 31 sessions.

Can't wait to get into the epic stuff, but for me it's a long way away.

 

[MerricB]

When 4e first came out, I ran a converted Shackled City campaign that hit 16th level in about 33 sessions. My converted encounters were very simple, with small rooms and little terrain, so we could often do 5 encounters in a six-hour session!

Slow. I've run 6 encounters in a three-hour session.

(Having fewer players helped that session...)

Cheers!