Do You Often Get Beyond Mid-Level Play When RPGing?

[KB9JMQ]

Well since 3E we have played about 10 campaigns and only one has went gotten to 10th level and that is my Eberron game. It is on hold while I come up with a good ending story to wrap it up and the characters should be at 12th level then.

Also playing two campaigns right now that are both 6th level. One for sure will get to 10th but I don't know about beyond, the other could get there but I am having doubts.

About the time a DM gets his game to 10th he/she wants to play so someone else DM's their own new game so mid level for us is 6-7 since we seem to wrap up by 10th for the most part.

 

[Psion]

I'll use Dungeon magazine's definition of mid level here - 7-12. Definitions of mid level being 4-7 do not apply IMO, since 3e whethers higher levels better than 1e and 2e.

And for me, the answer is yes. In any campaign run for sufficient lenght of time, we have gone beyond 12th. One to 22nd and one to 16th.

 

[kigmatzomat]

Pretty much any game that lasts more than a dozen sessions gets to 10th+ level. But then, my campaigns either die quickly or run for multiple years.

 

[JoeGKushner]

No.

Many of the games I've been involved in as a player have fallen apart around 7th level.

Very aggrevating because that's just when the PrC's start and when some of the more interesting spells/feats become available.

 

[fusangite]

I find that D&D's geometric power increases make me want to avoid levels over 12th or so. It gets harder and harder to generate a sensible story unless the PCs leave the ordinary world and find themselves in a place with beings at a commensurable power level.

 

[Sound of Azure]

Geometric?

Uh, ok. :\

Seldom get past mid-level in ongoing games (I think the highest PCs have been 11th level) except when we played RTtoEE a few years back, or the one-shots where we were already higher than that.
For us, it seems to be either player attrition, or DM burnout. Shame, really.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Sure ....

We don't play all that often. However, our campaigns typically end around 15th level.

-Samir

 

[Umbran]

Hr. Considering that D&D is the only game I regularly play with a strict concept of "levels" this is rather difficult to address.

 

[Arkham]

Often?
No, not Often. Just the current game.
Started at 5th, currently have 1 21st level PC, and another less than 300 xp from 21st.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Heck ya.

'course, we usually start at level 5.

And deities and fiendish lords peter out the power grid at about 60th level.

So there's a good range of challenges throughout the curve.