D&D 5E (2014) How much of the game have you experienced so far?

[I'm A Banana]

In the interest of quantification.

If you've only played Basic, there are 340 possible levels to experience Basic D&D: 4 races * 4 classes * 20 levels each + 20 levels of DMing.

If you're playing with the PHB, there are 80 classes (including subclasses), 28 races, and 20 levels + 20 levels of DMing for 2,260 total levels.

I'm simplifying the DMing side - I could also figure out how many monsters it takes to get enough XP to get a level and compare that against the total number of different monsters in the MM, but I don't know a reliable way to get that first number over 20 levels (happy to accept help from fellow quants, though! ).

So take the number of levels you've played, put it over the total possible for the style you're playing in and figure your percentage.

For my Monday group, for instance, we're level 6, so we've each had 1 class for 6 levels, and 1 DM, and we're using the PHB, so we've each (including the DM) experienced roughly 0.2% of the content of 5e so far personally. And with 5 regular players + 1 DM, that'd be about 1.2% of the game as a group (minus the people who haven't been there for the whole thing).

So, what percentage of the game's experience have you actually played through yourself? What about your group as a whole?

This calculation is part of what reminds me that "more content" is rapidly diminishing returns...I haven't experienced even 1% of the current content of the game! And that's probably true even when you add all my separate groups together!

How about you?

 

[Halivar]

I've played 1-8 in one class, 1-12 in another, and 15-20 in a third. I still feel like I have barely dipped my toes in this edition. There are many, many other options I want to play.

 

[ExploderWizard]

I haven't got to play yet.

I have run one campaign and we are at 5th level. At one time I had 8 players. I am running a second campaign with 5 players and we just hit level 3.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I've played 1-8 in one class, 1-12 in another, and 15-20 in a third. I still feel like I have barely dipped my toes in this edition. There are many, many other options I want to play.

Wooo, we've reached 1% in one player!

Though that many levels in ~5 months...I'm kind of jealous.

I haven't got to play yet.

I have run one campaign and we are at 5th level. At one time I had 8 players. I am running a second campaign with 5 players and we just hit level 3.

Man, you've got a LOT of game left to experience.

 

[TwoSix]

For my Monday group, for instance, we're level 6, so we've each had 1 class for 6 levels, and 1 DM, and we're using the PHB, so we've each (including the DM) experienced roughly 0.2% of the content of 5e so far personally. And with 5 regular players + 1 DM, that'd be about 1.2% of the game as a group (minus the people who haven't been there for the whole thing).

So since the game has been out for about 6 months, that means you shouldn't need any new material for yourself until the years 2264 at the current rate. Or, assuming you want to have your group as a whole try new things, no new material until 2055. No wonder WotC has been so quiet!

 

[Halivar]

Wooo, we've reached 1% in one player!

Though that many levels in ~5 months...I'm kind of jealous.

Three weekly home games. I married a gamer girl, and our social circles are all gamers, too (even though that is not our primary affinity). So I am definitely lucky in that regard!

 

[KarinsDad]

4 different single class PCs 5 levels
1 different single class PCs 4 levels
1 different single class PCs 1 level
1 different multiclass PC 5 levels
3 different single class NPCs (run by players, one level each)

Total: 29 class/level combos plus 8 races = 37 / 2280 = 1.6%

 

[DEFCON 1]

DMing two games in the Silver Marches simultaneously. Both groups 7 players, average level 4... but they also double up on some classes / sub-classes, so that's not completely indicative. Right now I have:

Wizard (Conjurer)
Paladin (Vengeance)
Paladin (Devotion)
Fighter (Champion)
Fighter (Battlemaster)
Fighter (Eldritch Knight)
Bard (Lore)
Warlock (Shadow Pact *homemade*)
Druid (Moon)
Rogue (Arcane Trickster) x 2
Ranger (Hunter) x 3

I'm actually also about to have a Sorcerer (Draconic) show up soon for a couple sessions, so that will finally give us something a little different! At the rate we're going, only several more decades to use the rest of the book!

 

[neobolts]

This calculation is part of what reminds me that "more content" is rapidly diminishing returns...I haven't experienced even 1%

No fair! I wanna talk about the content I want, not the content I acutally need!
Wanting more content <> unhappy with the amount of content I have now.

But seriously...

How about you?

Since 5e PHB launch, playing one night a week:

• Player 5e: 1-5 cleric in LMoP
  • (full group: cleric, fighter, rogue, 2 wizards)
• (away from 5e for a few months for Numenera)
• DM 5e: for 5 players for 1 level
  • (full party: bard, monk, paladin, fighter, rogue)

 

[Sacrosanct]

Not nearly as much as I want, as the short answer. DM'd AL for a while (but no longer; not my thing--too many restrictions on the DM).

Playing in two campaigns, both up to level 5 or so. DMing my homebrew Felk Mor, also up to level 5.