1st to 20th with same character

[Hussar]

I said almost, pretty much because the PC's didn't become stable until a ways into the campaign when I did my WLD game.

High level games are a blast.

 

[Quasqueton]

To be clear: I'm not asking about campaigns that ran from ~1st to ~20th --- I'm asking characters who made it from ~1st to ~20th. Some of the responses seem to be confusing the question. Did a, or all, or some character make it from very low to very high level?

Quasqueton

 

[Edheldur]

In my last campaign, 2 of the PCs went from 1 to 17 each before it ended. Too bad it ended in a bad way (one had to move out of the city, and the rest of the group just dissappeared eventually).

Hopefully, my new campaign can last even longer.

 

[Treebore]

Yes, they all survived from first to 20th. I think. A couple of characters in the games I DMed were probably "replaced" at some point. I know that at least 3 in each of those campaigns I DMed made it from 1st level.

All the ones I played were played from 1st to their final level. The 48th level was a Warlock in the Warcraft RPG, the 68th level was a Rokugan Samurai.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I've run PCs and games at mid (10th) to mid-high (15th) level before. I've never played nor have I DMed a game that ran from 1st to 20th level. About the highest I've seen things go when starting with a 1st-level character or group of characters has been 9th level. I'm not finding much amiss with that. We didn't aim to stop playing at 9th level--just worked out that way. The times that I've run higher level games or played a high-level PC, I found it not to my taste. Too much accounting for me. The low to middle levels of gaming are very fun, IMO.

 

[AuraSeer]

Yep! Our first-ever 3E characters made it all the way through, despite having very suboptimal builds and a weird party makeup-- paladin, sorcerer, and bard. They started out as a trio at level one, and finished in a party of 6 with just enough XP to go epic (if we hadn't been bored with them by that point).

Gilguli the Sorcerer (my PC) started with Point Blank Shot and Combat Casting, neither of which were used anytime past 5th level or so. Ulrich the Paladin had mounted combat feats that got used only twice in his career, because his horse was never around. Fezzig the Bard was a crossbow specialist, with Weapon Focus and (eventually) Rapid Reload.

Somehow these characters muddled through alone for several levels, before some more PCs joined in. I'm sure I could invent characters with less powerful feat choices, but I sure have never seen them happen by accident.

 

[messy]

I ran the original Adventure Path (The Sunless Citadel through Bastion of Broken Souls)...

not to derail the thread, but what are you referring to here? what is "the original adventure path?"

messy

 

[Mycanid]

Not me ... always started something new after a while or got destroyed, devoured or otherwise annihilated.

 

[MerricB]

not to derail the thread, but what are you referring to here? what is "the original adventure path?"

messy

The original 8 adventures released by Wizards for 3e formed the first Adventure Path.

The Sunless Citadel
The Forge of Fury
The Speaker in Dreams
The Standing Stone
Heart of Nightfang Spire
Deep Horizon
Lord of the Iron Fortress
The Bastion of Broken Souls

They took characters from 1st to 20th level.

Cheers!

 

[Stalker0]

3 of 4 characters in my game have gone from 3rd to 24th.