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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9362814" data-attributes="member: 19675">In the longest running campaign setting I’ve ever been part of, characters played ranged from L1 newbies to PCs over L20, starting in AD&D, getting converted to 2Ed, and eventually 3.5Ed.  The 3 core players rotated DMing duties.And yes, all of the PCs saw actual play.FYI, those PCs seemingly on the cusp of becoming divine did NOT always achieve their objectives.  Play at that level can suffer from blind spots, hubris & mistaken assumptions just like lower level play.  From BOTH sides of the screen.A favorite mistake: the guy who usually played the highest-level mage was DMing.  We eventually encountered a passage in a dungeon the party just could not navigate.  We beat our heads against it for half of a session before giving up, retreating and regrouping.  Nothing in our bag of tricks* was working.  So we went back to base, as it were.  Consulting with the DM’s wizard, we were asked why we didn’t simply use a particular spell.  That’s when one of the other players pointed out that no other PC knew that spell.**That was the end of that adventure.* including a Bag of Tricks.** Yes, this was the exact same player mentioned a while back who refused to have his PCs share spells.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤔" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" title="Thinking face    :thinking:" data-shortname=":thinking:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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