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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6947046" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Really, no one? How many campaigns do you see, in 5E or otherwise, that routinely last into the late teens? Can't we just say that those guys retired offscreen?Empirically, it seems to me that the name-level distinction is alive and well in 5E, even if the breakpoints are slightly different. I don't have a good explanation for why this should be so, other than some conjecture about how high-level magic gives players so much agency that many DMs find their methods of adventure-construction ceasing to work. But that's just conjecture, and the real point is this: even though 5E is apparently designed and intended to take most players all the way from 1st level to 15th+ level with a single character, in practice this happens infrequently. Just like in AD&D. (I presume that BECMI had a different breakpoint because of its 1-36 structure.)</blockquote>