Highlest level D&D character ever
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Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
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When I was a kid, playing 1st edition, and had nothing better to do, I took a character up to 67th level (Paladin 33, Wizard 34, using the old dual-classed rules). I had a small group of friends, we played pretty much every weekend or more, and did this partly for the exercise of dreaming up advancing all the tables in the books.
Since then (that was probably around 1983 or so), I think the highest level I've gotten a character is my current one (16th); as a DM, I have a few 25th level characters running around in my campaign (and those characters have been played since 3.0 came out, give or take a few months).
Now, I get that some people have the "I can one-up you" personality type completely saturating their synapses and genes, but, really, 256th level? All the way from 1st? Really? Do they eat? Who are these people?
Dave
Since then (that was probably around 1983 or so), I think the highest level I've gotten a character is my current one (16th); as a DM, I have a few 25th level characters running around in my campaign (and those characters have been played since 3.0 came out, give or take a few months).
Now, I get that some people have the "I can one-up you" personality type completely saturating their synapses and genes, but, really, 256th level? All the way from 1st? Really? Do they eat? Who are these people?
Dave
Whisper72
Explorer
Well, back in the good old days of high-school foolery and 1st edition ADnD, we had a group of characters rise to levels in the thousands. This was mainly due to the rule of 1GP=1XP. After a while (levels in the 30s or so), it became so easy in our campaign (or you could say, our DM was too soft) to accumulate wealth, that this drove leveling after a while. Seizing and owning diamond mines, adamantine mines etc. worht millions of GP leading to massive levelage. Needless to say, these characters were never really ran as PC's, they became rulers of their own empires...
Keldryn
Adventurer
I remember way back when I started playing at the age of 12 or 13, my Magic-User searched a room and the DM told me I found (rolls a d4) "3 million gems, each worth..." (rolls a d4 again) "four million gold pieces." Under a pile of garbage on the floor. This was back when 1 gp was worth 1 XP, and we never bothered with rules like "you can only advance one level per game session, leaving you at 1 XP below the requirement for the next level." At the time, we were just playing BECM D&D, but when I converted that character over to AD&D 1e a few months later (no stupid limit of 36th level!), I figured out that she was actually something like a 267,000th level Magic-User.
That same DM also had me once encounter 75 dragons playing poker in one (large) room of a dungeon. They all left to go to the bathroom at the same time, so I looted the place and left.
My head hurts just thinking about the stupid things that happened in those very early games among 12 year-olds.
That same DM also had me once encounter 75 dragons playing poker in one (large) room of a dungeon. They all left to go to the bathroom at the same time, so I looted the place and left.
My head hurts just thinking about the stupid things that happened in those very early games among 12 year-olds.
Nikosandros
Golden Procrastinator
I've never heard of such a character, but in OD&D* there is no level boundary... actually in AD&D there is also no such boundary.Pale Master said:
* OD&D, the original 1974 edition is something different from the Basic/Expert/Companion/Master rules that many people are familiar with.
ephemeron
Explorer
Nope. TSR even published a module "For Character Levels 18-100" -- H4 Throne of Bloodstone.Pale Master said:
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