DM's: Highest Level Campaign?

[Gospog]

A character in our Shadow Chasers game just hit 12th level.

I was planning on only running 2 more games, but the player in question has threatened my life should they not have the chance (ie, enough games) to hit 20th level at some point.

As the character is question is played by my wife, I am currently planning a "Season Three" for later this year.

-Tom

 

[Psychic Warrior]

15th level in 3E. In older editions we never made it past 10th as we could rarely hold a group together that long.

 

[Bladesong]

Our last campaign took the characters from 1st level to 18-20th level. I think they are cured of wanting high level campaigns, however, and all it took was one lizardman monk in a dead magic area of a swamp.

It seems the most entertaining levels are from 4th - 7th, and it is best if the campaigns end between 12th and 15th.

 

[Mr. Lobo]

AD&D first edition highest level was 12. Took three years.

3rd edition was between 8th and 9th level before our group split up. Took a little over a year.

Would like to get a new 3E campaign going and take it up to at least 18-20th level (from first level).

 

[Belen]

My players made it to 27th. All I have to say is never again.

 

[Treebore]

In 3E I've DMed it to 17th and have played to 46th. In 1E or 2E (don't remember which) I DMed it up to 35th level, in D&D.

 

[tarchon]

In 3E, never higher than 10th.
The highest level ever in any game, relative to its usual power levels, may have been a DC Heroes campaign in which we used alternative rules from a Dragon article called "A Little Less Super," which was supposed to reign in out-of-control character advancement. After our new characters tarred Superman in a couple rounds, "A Little Less Super" came to be our catchall phrase for utterly broken rule supplements.
Also had an AD&D in which the low-level party members were dual classed 16/15. The highest one was somewhere in the mid-20s.

 

[ThirdWizard]

My highest level game started in 2nd edition at level 1, and converted the campaign to 3E when it came out (I basically let them completely recreate the characters keeping in mind the same ideas). At that point they were around level 8. They leveled *very* fast at first because the xp system took me by complete surprise, then we cut xp in half, around level 15. Then we put that campaign on hiatus when we got 2 new players because we wanted to start them out lower level, and came back to it later, got up to around levle 21 or 22, they "stopped" Ragnarok (complete with Surt) and ended the campaign there.

 

[Devilkiller]

The one and only 3e campaign I've run is still ongoing, and the PCs are currently at 5th level. I have no particular plans on when to stop, but I doubt we'll go past 20th. I don't ted to water down the XP awards recommended in the book though, so new levels have been coming pretty quickly, usually in a month or less. On the other hand, some of the PCs are a little suboptimal, and it has been tricky providing a reasonable challenge while avoiding a TPK. If you're wondering what suboptimal means, our sorcerer had Identify as one of his spells at 1st level, and we have a halfling monk who does 1d4-1 damage or throws shuriken for a whopping 1 point of damage each. On the other hand we have an orc barbarian with a Str of 22.

As a player I went up to 18th in a game that went to 20th but had to miss the finale due business trips. That game took about two years. I also earned my way form 1st-16th in a game where the DM gave everybody 5 free levels and a bunch of roleplaying goodies over the last few sessions. My drunken master ended up becoming a low ranking deity of alcoholic beverages and cooking, but that's solely an NPC role IMO.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Player here...

There's no way I could vote on our games with this poll as it would have to be multiple choice....

I've had one campaign end where the party was epic.

The ones still running, one's at 4th level currently, the second's at abt 8-10th level party spread (due to deaths and players missing sessions), the third is at abt 12th level (all dwarf game) and the fourth is at 15-16th levels.