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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 7881639" data-attributes="member: 518">This is where I think 13th Age really did a fantastic job.  Set a level cap of 10. 3 "tiers" (ala 4E), and pack a significant but manageable power jump as you get into each tier. Keeps players and GMs interested through all 10 levels and the high level play does not get out of hand because the math works for combat rolls/skill checks/etc.  For people who don't like to roll 10 dice for damage, there are easy peasy options (I haven't found this a problem, but it's easily surmounted if someone finds it is)Anecdotal- Back in the 70s as kids we had some real monty haul/munchkin games, and my character- Skyhawk the Mighty, Paladin of Odin ( I was 8, cut me some slack)-made it to 20th level in about a year of play. But otherwise, we really only ran high level characters as one shot adventure things- We rolled up higher level characters for the Steading, or The Tomb , or whatever. "Campaign play" always fizzled out around 8-10. Thinking about it, this may have been a symptom of the transition from OD&D rules to AD&D, but IDK. It may also be because we got bored and always wanted to try something new or different- especially as the boom/market explosion really ramped up in 79-82. Someone would buy something new- a module or game, and we'd drop characters to make a new one of the appropriate level for the new adventure- or try out the new game and by the time we came back to D&D wanted to start something else instead of picking up where we left off. I personally don't really like long, drawn out campaigns for levels 1-15 or 20, and never have run them. For every WOTC edition so far, I'd say levels 10 and under is where it's at for "most fun".</blockquote>

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