BD&D vs. AD&D

[Achan hiArusa]

FWIW, humans aren’t limited in level at all.

There were no rules for going past 10th level in Fighting Man or Cleric and for going past 16th level for Wizard in the White Box, ergo those were hard level limits.

As for BECMID&D there is a limit of 36 for humans, unless you are a Mystic.

 

[DaveyJones]

There were no rules for going past 10th level in Fighting Man or Cleric and for going past 16th level for Wizard in the White Box, ergo those were hard level limits.

nope. no limits for levels for humans.

look again at your men & magic booklet

edit: page 18 and 19 if you want to look for yourself.
Davey "I've got them pretty much memorized" Jones

 

[Achan hiArusa]

nope. no limits for levels for humans.

look again at your men & magic booklet

edit: page 18 and 19 if you want to look for yourself.
Davey "I've got them pretty much memorized" Jones

Okay, you're right. Now the question comes, how? The experience table stops and I didn't see anything on how much levels cost after the one on the table. The fighting man and cleric seem to indicate you double with each level whereas the wizard is +100,000 per level. Weird.

 

[RFisher]

Okay, you're right. Now the question comes, how? The experience table stops and I didn't see anything on how much levels cost after the one on the table. The fighting man and cleric seem to indicate you double with each level whereas the wizard is +100,000 per level. Weird.

That is a very reasonable interpretation of the tables. Does seem a bit weird for only MUs to be linear.

In any case, read the Afterword from The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures again. It says—explicitly, “Here’s a start; make up the rest yourselves.” So the progression beyond what’s given in M&M is whatever the group/referee chooses.

Personally, I like continuing the doubling rather than levelling off to linear like later editions did. I’d be tempted to make off-the-chart levels MU levels double as well.


(Even without the text on M&M pp. 18–19, I couldn’t call it a “hard limit” in light of the Afterword. For me to even consider calling a limit hard in oD&D, the text would have to be explicit about the limit. ^_^)