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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6768920" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Yeah, 1e and 2e started to have problems as low as 7th level, and things got pretty wonky once you had 6th level spells (11th level wizard). Then it pretty much melted around 14th when you had 7th level spells. Clerics and druids were a BIT less crazy, but still having things like a spell that swallowed up evil guys forever into the earth was pretty zany. Especially when level 9 fighters got A WHOLE BUNCH OF 0 LEVEL FOLLOWERS, WOW!!!! (and only if they spent all their gold on a castle that was bound to be a giant DM plot hook magnet, and not in a good way). </p><p></p><p>Once we got past our 'Monty Haul' period I don't think there was ever a game where we hit 14th level ever again. My highest level PC was a level 13 Magic User (that eventually got converted to 2e). We did play a fair bit around those levels though, but I'm not honestly sure just how much more powerful being 18th level would have really gotten us anyway, we killed Demogorgon at 13th... We were kind of the ruthless "extrapolate everything to the Nth degree of advantage" sort of lot, and magic user spells in particular left a LOT of open doors for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6768920, member: 82106"] Yeah, 1e and 2e started to have problems as low as 7th level, and things got pretty wonky once you had 6th level spells (11th level wizard). Then it pretty much melted around 14th when you had 7th level spells. Clerics and druids were a BIT less crazy, but still having things like a spell that swallowed up evil guys forever into the earth was pretty zany. Especially when level 9 fighters got A WHOLE BUNCH OF 0 LEVEL FOLLOWERS, WOW!!!! (and only if they spent all their gold on a castle that was bound to be a giant DM plot hook magnet, and not in a good way). Once we got past our 'Monty Haul' period I don't think there was ever a game where we hit 14th level ever again. My highest level PC was a level 13 Magic User (that eventually got converted to 2e). We did play a fair bit around those levels though, but I'm not honestly sure just how much more powerful being 18th level would have really gotten us anyway, we killed Demogorgon at 13th... We were kind of the ruthless "extrapolate everything to the Nth degree of advantage" sort of lot, and magic user spells in particular left a LOT of open doors for that. [/QUOTE]
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