Highest level reached from level 1?

[ThirdWizard]

I have only started one game at level 1, and it made it to 21 or 22 or so at the culmination. That took three years. The second highest was 3-12 or thereabouts after one year when it ended, and our current game started at 3 and is only at 7 after eight months of play.

There have been mini-campaigns in between but they don't really count for terms of this poll.

 

[ForceUser]

I played in a single 3.0 game that started at 1st and ended with the high character being 15th. It lasted two years. Most 3E games we play tend to start at 3rd-5th level these days, although the DM of that original game always starts his campaigns at 1st level--the caveat being that in the five years since 3E hit, he's run exactly two games, each 2 years long or more. In contrast, the other DMs tend to start campaigns with higher-level characters, but the campaigns never run longer than a year, and there have been many of them. Probably too many.

 

[KB9JMQ]

Level 9.
That is assuming I live thru the session on Sunday.
If not then level 8

 

[Xath]

We just ended a campaign that went from 1-17.

I once had a character start at level 16. The party advanced as high as 20, but every time my character leveled, she died....friggen blue dragons. Every time!

 

[Jolly Giant]

8th level for me, and that was with my very first character. Pathetic, isn't it? As I've just explained over in the DM or Player thread, the problem is that the lazy DMs I've played with can't seem to get their campaigns to last more than 3 sessions. In other words, I'm the DM most of the time.

 

[Prism]

Personally, I think there should be a 0.5 multiplier to earned exp for the "sweet spot" of the game (5-15).

Our campaigns seem to do that almost by default anyway as we tend to forget about proper adventuring at about 10th level and spend most of our time building up a stronghold/political strength/guilds...etc. Then occasionally some bad guy we have annoyed along the way who has actually spent their time going up levels comes and kicks off!

Our current campaigns that we alternate between are

1-12 (rolemaster - 3.5e conversion intermitent)
1-15 (rolemaster - 3.5e conversion on hold)
1-10 (all 3e Return to temple - abandoned)
1-10 (all 3.5e - celtic themed homebrew)
1-5 (3.5e - dark sun)
1-7 (3.5e - FR)
3-5 (3.5e FR Underdark - current)

I guess if we played a campaign for more than 9 months to a year we would get further but we like the variety and also take turns as DM especially when people can't make it each week

 

[twofalls]

The two longest run campagins I've ever GMed lasted just over 3 years. The first was an Earthdawn campaign and one PC made it to 7th circle (much differnt scale than D&D). The later game is my 3.0 Dreams of Glory campaign which has been running for over 3 years now. We play consistantly twice a week and the highest level character is 14th level. I stick to the 3.0 rules for xp, however my game involves a lot of politics and role playing so the monster slaying is kept to a more manageable scale and hence so does the xp awarded.

I'm also running a Kingdoms of Kalamar game twice a month and they have reached 4th level. I'm going to inform the group tonight that combat xp is going to be halved going forward to retard level growth as I like mid level campaigns.

 

[sniffles]

The highest level I've reached is 9th in a Forgotten Realms campaign that just concluded in March. We began at 1st level under the 2nd ed. AD&D rules in 1998, and converted to 3.5 at the end of last year. Initially we played twice a month, but even with a few hiatuses of several months' duration, we played fairly often. Goes to show how much faster you level up in 3E - we went from 6th level to 9th *after* we converted. I'm involved in another 3.5 FR campaign that began in Feb. 2003, and those PCs are 8th level after only two years of twice-monthly sessions.

 

[RuminDange]

What in the world do you do at 40th level?

Same thing you do at the lower levels....adventure, save the ones in distress, Kill things and take thier stuff, etc... except you get to had "change the world and heavens" after you save it.


RD

 

[RuminDange]

same thing you do at 39th, just a little tougher

Bingo

RD