Character levelled 1 through 20...have you?

[Radiating Gnome]

I ran a campaign for my group that ran from 1 to 21 over the course of 4 years, playing one 5 hour session every other weekend. And I'm about to play the very last session of an Age of Worms campaign that has gone from 1 to 21 over about two years. In that campaign I gave up on a character that wasn't working for me, though, so I can't really claim to have played the whole way, but most of the players at the table have played the same character all the way through.

-rg

 

[kigmatzomat]

As a player? No.

As a DM, twice. My college AD&D 2e game went from 1st level to ~20th (The rogue was higher, the wizard lower).

My current 3.0 game (started before the 3.0 DMG & MM were out) is currently at 21st level. I imagine we'll be at 23rd or so by the time 4e comes out. And maybe the campaign's main plot will be wrapped up.

 

[buzz]

My Monday game is the longest-running campaign I've ever been in. We've been playing biweekly (with occasional schedule hiccups) since 2002, I think. We definitely started before 3.5 was released. On average, the party is at 17th-18th level now. We'll probably wrap the whole thing up in the next few months, likely hitting 20th level.

No other campaign I've ever played has even come close to this. Honestly, I don't ever expect it to happen again, and I'm okay with that.

 

[funkysnunkulator]

If you used Edena's system, since you've played for 20 or so years, you'd have a PC with levels close to or past 100, actually.

In short, what Edena did was run the same character in a number of different games at all sorts of different levels, and whenever one of the Edena-PCs leveled up, he leveled his "main" Edena up too. For example, if the "main" Edena was at 18th level and he was running a 5th lvl PC in some campaign who hit 6th, then he leveled the "main" Edena up to 19th. And so on.

I think it's safe to say that doesn't fit the OP's idea of playing your character from levels 1 to 20.

wow. this is interesting. we have a similar element in our game, though likely for very different purposes.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

1 - 21, with a jump to 24 and onwards to 30. It was a 3e Campaign (our first 3e Campaign), and lasted 2 years or so.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Wulf Ratbane went 1st to 20th-- and never died, either.

I had good allies.

 

[Moggthegob]

I had two epic characters who only just recently retired. Both gnomes oddly, I had a gnomish cleric go 1-20 and then he took Druid 1-20 as an epic character. Nothing like wearing Dragonscale plate fashioned from a dead Great Red Wyrm. It was in 3e which took us 3 years of playing and then on and off the last 4 years. The other is a 32nd level Gnomish Ranger with levels in rogue and Blade Bravo.He killed alot ,was 3.5 and was the fear of all people 4'6 or taller. The cleric was eventually ascended to good hood using the rules in the Deities and Demigods book and we took on the GH basic Pantheon and took thier places. After that, there was no point in adventuring really....

 

[Agamon]

That's the plan with my favored soul/paladin/knight of the silver chalice in the STAP game I'm playing in. He's only 7th right now (and just a FS), but I hope to eventually stick his trident through Demogorgon's face(s).

The AoW game I'm runnning, there are no original PCs left (currently L13-14). In fact, there's only 2 secondary PCs left (PCs that replaced the originals). A bit of a meat grinder, AoW is.

 

[S. Baldrick]

As a player, no. I have not.
As a DM, I did take a group of characters from 1st to 20th when I ran the SCAP. It was one of my proudest accomplishments as a DM.

 

[zoroaster100]

The characters in the Shackled City campaign I'm running have recently leveled to 20th level. I believe three of the five surviving characters started at 1st level, and two started later at 2nd level. We started the campaign around November 2005.