D&D General Highest level PC you've achieved.

[Brendan Byrd]

In terms of Character Level: Low 30's

AD&D (2e) Half-elf C/F/M
(ETA: No XP for treasure; no henchmen, followers, dominions, etc.)
Character converted to 3e when that edition came out. [ASI's?!!! ]
7-ish year campaign.
By the end: C12/F9/W10(?)

 

[payn]

3E level 20 (not a fan)
PF1 routinely level 14
5E level 20 (not bad at all)

 

[saviirkad]

My 3.5 and 4e games never lasted long enough to level up more than once, but in 5e, since getting back into it about 8 years ago, I've been in a campaign that's taken 6 years to go from levels 1 through 18.

That said, I've had 3 PCs in it. Bard died at level 3. Rogue retired at level 6. Wizard-Cleric-Druid (Diviner-Knowledge-Star) multiclass went the distance, levels 6 to 18.

Game will likely end either at level 18 or maybe we'll get a final level up to 19 just before the BBEG. The DM has been clear that level 20 will not happen. Regardless, we're maybe a couple months from the end at most.

 

[el-remmen]

The highest in a game I played in from level 1 would probably be in 2E and that was maybe level 5. (I mostly DMed). This took about a year of weekly play (give or take)

The highest level characters that started at level 1 in a game I ran were 11th level in a 3e game and this took 5 years of biweekly play.

 

[Clint_L]

In my current home game, they've attained level 7 relatively quickly (it's been about 9 months) and I've suggested to the players that I would like to radically slow the pace. Everyone loves their character and have unlocked the key abilities that they wanted as their character vision, so I now want to stretch progression out for years more. My players agreed, so they'll be at 7 for awhile.

 

[Upper_Krust]

1st (& 2nd) Edition: 117th-level Cavalier-Cleric-Mage Lesser God of Swordsmanship
Played for almost a decade

3rd Edition: off the top of my head I can't recall

4th Edition: 30th-level Ranger
Played for a few years

5th Edition: 20th-level Fighter with 8 Epic Boons
Played for a few years

 

[Sacrosanct]

1st (& 2nd) Edition: 117th-level Cavalier-Cleric-Mage Lesser God of Swordsmanship
Played for almost a decade

3rd Edition: off the top of my head I can't recall

4th Edition: 30th-level Ranger
Played for a few years

5th Edition: 20th-level Fighter with 8 Epic Boons
Played for a few years

This you?

 

[JamesLFlowers]

Godhood. I had a AD&D thru 2e Paladin whose patron God of Justice was killed in a Godswar and he took the remaining part of the God into his soul. He advanced through 20th level and into Epic level games before finally transitioning into becoming the new God of Justice and patron of LG Paladins. Retired as a character though we did talk about using him some in a Godswar style campaign, but never did. Back then (late 80s - early 90s) there seems to have been more official support for high-level and epic level play.

 

[Charlaquin]

In 3e I don’t think I ever “legitimately” got a character past level 3.

In 4e I got a character from 1 to 11, though if I remember correctly we did skip a level or maybe 2 because summer was ending and half the party was moving away to college, and the DM wanted to make sure we got to the climax before then, so call it 9, I guess.

In my longest-running 5e campaign I got a Barbarian to I think level 10, got terribly bored with the character, killed her off and made a warlock picking up at the same level my barbarian had died at, and got him to level 13 before quitting the campaign because I really wasn’t jibing with the DM. Not sure if you’d count those extra 3 levels as “legitimate”.

 

[Upper_Krust]

This you?

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Sadly not me. Though we did have an NPC 535th-level Wizard (and Psionicist) called Doomstar who killed the God Arioch (from the Melnibonean Gods) with a Magic Missile spell.