Highest level you've played

[S'mon]

DM'd up to 117th Lesser God (1e/2e) - Upper_Krust's PC Thrin.

In 3e I've DM'd up to ca 18th - Elaith the elven Archmage and the Warlord High King Sigurd. High level spellcasters in 3e aren't much fun to GM though, too OTT powerful. Solo games for high level warriors work well.

Never got to GM much.

 

[Dark Mistress]

AD&D - 19th (we switched a old group to AD&D when it came out and no longer recall what level they was in Old DnD before the switch)
2nd Edition - 8th (it was the edition that made me stop playing DnD)
3rd Edition - 16th (though i prefer the 3-12th range)
4th Edition - (doesn't really count as we never played long term we played a few game sessions up to like 5th i think and then a few one shots at other levels before giving up on it)

 

[carborundum]

Played in AD&D - 10th (from 1)
Played in 3e - 14th (from 1)
DM'd a group from 1 to 15 in AD&D, (and from 1 to 25 in Rolemaster.)

Someone I actually know... played competition games with 30th level AD&D characters. I doubt they started at 1st though.

 

[juboke]

Playing since 1980

1e - 14th
2e - 14th
3e - 16th
4e - Haven't played yet

 

[SpydersWebbing]

In 3.5? 24th level
4th? All the way up to 30. Honestly, epic level play is the best.

 

[Wisdom Penalty]

Basic D&D: 3
Expert D&D: 14
Companion: None
Masters: None
Immortals: None

1E: 8th (which makes me sad; I thought I was cooler than that until just now)
2E: never played
3E: DM'd 15th (played - maybe 6th?)
4E: 5th, and a paragon one-shot just to test the waters

Now, if your question was which level was the most fun - I'd have to say the Expert level, Isle of Dread, opaque light blue dice with crayon goop scrawled into the numbers.

I'm also a sucker for The Lost City and Tsojcanth. Had a lot of fun with some 4E homebrew stuff, too.

WP

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Also, using Monte Cook's World of Darkness, some of the vampires from the games I've ran (the Marquis, Todbar, Spit, and Cassandra) have all been 30th or higher level.

Spit had began in a 1st Edition VtM game as an inconoclast Brujah with a band and ended with the final nights.

Todbar was a Gangrel and the Marquis was a Toreador. They started in a Vampire the Dark Ages Campaign and we played episodic games until the age of Trinity (Dark Ages>Sorceror Crusades>Wild West>Victorian>Modern Nights>Trinity).

Cassandra was my ex-girlfriend's character and a Tremere. She had gotten a library which allowed her an Xp break on Rituals and realized that paths and rituals were the best way to power. She came out ahead on every setback the original Storyteller and I (I'm one of those guys who is harder on my SOs than on other players) put her through. In a word, yeesh... She was able to amass almost as much power as those other three in a fraction of the play time.

 

[Akaiku]

Started really in 3.x
Highest level not one-shotted. A 20 legetemetly (Straight Astral Deva). Odd ecl rules wankery would put another character I had much higher then 20 (Dire Weretiger feral winged elf. Monk 6). A vaild in the rules character in a one shot I had was 36.

4th ed? I think I'm at 4 from a character started at 1. I also got 2 others at 6 and one at 3.

Also, my 450 point besm dx was pretty awesome. My besm 3rd ed with lots of primal dynamic powers made what level or whatnot largely unimportaint, as you can just DO things. Also I had a totally unreasonable cyberpunk 2020 character at one time, but that was starting.