Did you survive 1-20?

[Tuft]

I play with a DM that gives us a limited number of "you didn't really die"-points instead of permitting resurrections.

In 3.5, Savage Tides AP + lots of extras, Level 1-20 with XP rewards halved, I spent two such points at mid-level and one at 20 (nasty assassin out-sneaked me).

In 4E, Rise of The Runelords AP, level 1-26 with XP rewards doubled, I spent one such point at early paragon. At the end, it was rare that the PCs needed any healing at all, even with +4 encounters (if I recall correctly what the DM said he threw at us).

 

[wedgeski]

On a siede-note, I had a CoC investigator survive more or less intact through 4 years of bi-weekly gaming. Does that count as high level?

More like near immortality!

 

[jasper]

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I was happy if the group stuck with a single dm and campaign till I made it to 8th level. The old 7/6 problem. 7 players/6 dms all wanting the chair.
I have had people get to 10th level but I would have to talk with the players to see If their pc never died.

 

[Cerebral Paladin]

I've had 1 or 2 characters make it to 10th level; my PC in my college game made it to around 9th or 10th, don't remember exactly, before dying in a suitably climactic way. (Some of the other PCs in that game are still alive and (IIRC) around 13th or 14th level.) I've had another one or two who I think went from 1st to low teens, and another one or two who started at level 3 and made it to low teens. Several of those campaigns had slow advancement, though, so that might represent 100 sessions or so of play.

I think there's a meaningful chance that the Burning Sky game that I'm in will make it all the way up to 20, although no guarantee that my PC will survive the trip. And I think that some of my characters who are around 10 now may someday level up to 20, but that's looking at like a decade or more of more play.

I don't think I've ever run a game that lasted for more than 6 or 8 levels.

 

[Lord Ipplepop]

During my 1ed days, I had a character that made it beyond 10th level, and was- at retirement- slightly over 20th.
3.5, I had a Bard that I have recently discussed that made it to 12th before I voluntarily killed him off out of boredome with the character.

As a 3.x DM, The same group where my Bard was a member had multiple DM's within the same campaign, and we all had characters that made it from 1st through... we finally stopped the campaign when the characters were near 15th or 16th level due to work schedulkes and 2 of our members leaving the area.

 

[Jhaelen]

I never even got close. Level 8 was as high as I ever got (in AD&D 1e). My players were luckier: currently several are at level 15 (in D&D 3.5). But they won't get to level 20 since we're currently playing the final adventure of my campaign. Some might reach level 16, though.

 

[kitsune9]

As a player, the highest level I got to was about 11th level I think with a couple of characters for 3.x. The first DM moved away and the other DM got burned out before running his last module.

As a DM, I had players who successfully ran their characters from 1st to about 24th level before the campaign ended. They died a lot during the campaign, but after a while, death is only a 10 minute delay (quite expensive though). My current Pathfinder campaign has players at 10th level, but I plan on ending this campaign at 15th-16th level.

 

[Bluenose]

On a siede-note, I had a CoC investigator survive more or less intact through 4 years of bi-weekly gaming. Does that count as high level?

Who was this, and is he accepting prayers?

 

[Kingreaper]

I have never played a game from 1st level.

I once GMed a game that started at 1st level (my first time GMing, first time playing for all the players); but it didn't work out well 'til I got everyone to level 2.

 

[Eccles]

Morrus likes him some long campaigns...

Our 3.0 campaign reached about 18th, in the 3.5 campaign I think I reached level 21 with a bard. That has to be worth a medal.

We've reached level 21 in War of the Burning Sky so far and are going strong.

Another mate's homebrew we fought our way up to level 11 or 12.