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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7618215" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Some of the people I game with, we have been gaming together since 1986. Not all of course, as some new players joined, etc. To give context, we played AD&D 1e until 2012 when we started the 5e playtest. To answer your question, we played high level PCs like AD&D designed for them to be played. I.e., when they got high level, they started strongholds, did land management, and the game shifted from a dungeon crawl to more of a resource/land/conquer type of game. They also got retired and just made cameos every once in a while. Not counting one offs where we played a super high level PC, the highest level PC I ever had in over 30 years of gaming with natural XP progression was level 16. Most of the time, when our PCs manage to live long enough to get to level 10 or so, we do the above and semi-retire them. If anyone tells me they have a PC higher than level 30 or so (let alone 117!), that tells me they probably played MOnty Haul with super fast level progression outside of how the game was designed (remember, in AD&D, you couldn't gain levels without training, and you were capped at how many levels you could go up regardless of XP gained, and it costs a lot of money to do so. Many people didn't play this way, but that's how the game was designed to be).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7618215, member: 15700"] Some of the people I game with, we have been gaming together since 1986. Not all of course, as some new players joined, etc. To give context, we played AD&D 1e until 2012 when we started the 5e playtest. To answer your question, we played high level PCs like AD&D designed for them to be played. I.e., when they got high level, they started strongholds, did land management, and the game shifted from a dungeon crawl to more of a resource/land/conquer type of game. They also got retired and just made cameos every once in a while. Not counting one offs where we played a super high level PC, the highest level PC I ever had in over 30 years of gaming with natural XP progression was level 16. Most of the time, when our PCs manage to live long enough to get to level 10 or so, we do the above and semi-retire them. If anyone tells me they have a PC higher than level 30 or so (let alone 117!), that tells me they probably played MOnty Haul with super fast level progression outside of how the game was designed (remember, in AD&D, you couldn't gain levels without training, and you were capped at how many levels you could go up regardless of XP gained, and it costs a lot of money to do so. Many people didn't play this way, but that's how the game was designed to be). [/QUOTE]
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