Highlest level D&D character ever

Asmor · Nov 23, 2007

By my calculations, under 3rd edition rules, you'd need well over 32 million exp to hit level 256.

Also, finding sufficient challenges that you get exp seems like it would be... difficult.

Olgar Shiverstone · Nov 23, 2007

Asmor said:
Also, finding sufficient challenges that you get exp seems like it would be... difficult.

There's always housecats.

Vrecknidj · Nov 23, 2007

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

Whisper72 · Nov 23, 2007

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...

messy · Nov 23, 2007

Bagpuss said:
You are thinking of Edena of Neith who has one of the more recognisable posting styles as well.

He's a joy to have visit your forum. He's a member here, but you might need to say his name three times while looking into a mirror to actually get him to post.

um... this is sort of off-topic, but i always thought edena was female...

messy

Keldryn · Nov 23, 2007

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.

Woas · Nov 23, 2007

My character's power level is.... OVER NINE THOUSAAAANND!

Nikosandros · Nov 23, 2007

Pale Master said:
Point of order: wouldn't any level above 36 / 20 / or whatever be a house rule and therefore, illegal?

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.

* OD&D, the original 1974 edition is something different from the Basic/Expert/Companion/Master rules that many people are familiar with.