Did anyone else run high level campaigns in 2e ?

[Greggy C]

We had a 2Ed campaign that got into 25+ level PCs after almost 20 years. Sometimes, the PCs were as dangerous to each other as their foes…

I can't remember how it came about but we definitely had one session with PvP, that was a lot of fun and fairly balanced despite a wide variety of classes.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I can't remember how it came about but we definitely had one session with PvP, that was a lot of fun and fairly balanced despite a wide variety of classes.

It was less about PvP- though that DID happen sometimes- and more about friendly fire. Emphasis on “fire”.

 

[Ath'kethin]

I never had a 2e campaign go from 1-20 or anything, but we played high level games all the time. we'd start characters at 12th or 15th level and go to town. We loved it, and we still talk about those campaigns today (as in, my friend and I were talking about one yesterday).

 

[GuyBoy]

Played a long term game which concluded with completion of Return to the Tomb of Horrors. The dead city of Moil was terrifying and the "lone wolf" rogue character learnt a very fatal lesson by leaving the party behind to tackle a Winter Wight.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I had a 2e campaign that went as far as 12th-16th level, depending on the character. It started in 1e, and switched to 2e at around 7th level or so.

I had really just started to develop and grow as a DM in 2e, so I wasn't really prepared to handle high-level play. Had I been better, I would likely have continued the campaign even further.

 

[David Howery]

I had two characters reach somewhat high levels in 1E... a mage who made it to 16th, and a ranger who made it to 15th... none of the rest came anywhere near that...

 

[Mark Hope]

Yes. I've had a few characters in my games make it up to 20th level or higher, with several others in the mid to high teens. Some have even managed to ascend to divinity. It's pretty cool to see someone play a cleric of a character who was in the game 20 years ago and is now a deity. I love high-level AD&D - there's not much else in the fantasy genre that's quite like it.

 

[Greggy C]

Yes. I've had a few characters in my games make it up to 20th level or higher, with several others in the mid to high teens. Some have even managed to ascend to divinity. It's pretty cool to see someone play a cleric of a character who was in the game 20 years ago and is now a deity. I love high-level AD&D - there's not much else in the fantasy genre that's quite like it.

nice, we have a Lich, but my players were too competitive to allow one to become a deity lol, the others would have to become ones too.

 

[TheSword]

Loved this book. Really good advice for high level campaigns and some interesting options. One of the few 2nd Ed books I didn’t sell.

 

[nevin]

highest my 2e campaign got was around 18th. I found that once you got passed 10 that as a DM I had to keep a running tab of who the players action hurt and helped all the way up to the Gods and down to the hells. My wizard got really cocky and arrogant and the last few levels was them trying to get out of Hades after a really bad snap decision sent them there. To this day I can't get that group of players to leave thier home plane....