Level of Play part 2 (21st+)

[Stormonu]

I was worried in the other poll I'd run out of options on the poll for levels, so I stopped at 21st.

However, in the interest of fairness for those who play into the Epic levels, I wanted to expand the poll here.

If you play into the high levels or enjoy Epic, please take the poll.

Likewise, if you don't play Epic, give us your reasons here - and perhaps any ideas you have to improve interest and play into these levels.

<Edit> 36th should be 36th+. And don't forget you can skip levels and go straight for Immortal statuses if you want...</Edit>

 

[Gundark]

Yeah! My choice is winning. Actually so far only I have voted.....

 

[Lanefan]

Poll needs a "never got this high" option - it would get my vote if it were there.

I'm not even sure the game needs more than 12 or 15 playable levels, with the higher ones being the realm of NPCs and enemies. But I would sometime be interested in playing a divine-level or immortal-level campaign just to see how it might work.

To encourage such things the game needs to have rules - preferably presented as an option - as to how one might ascend to divinity.

Lan-"we can all have career goals, right?"-efan

 

[JRRNeiklot]

I ran a 3e game to 21st level, played a one shot at 23rd, and actually ran a character to about 15th. Got my longest living AD&D character, who actually started out as a Basic D&D elf to a 13/14 fighter/mage. His soul still lives on in Acererak's skull. Someday, he will be recovered.

 

[Minigiant]

I played an epic 3.5 campaign with a whole mess of house rules (you all know the first thing removed) before. Twas fun. Started as level 25.

I bet more people would start epic game if it were properly planned and supported at the start of game design.

 

[Tallifer]

Alas. It has never been possible for me to find a group or a dungeon master willing to stick to a single campaign or world for more than a year.

I have played in short experiments with epic level 4th edition characters, but we were learning the rules and feel of high level stuff. It was not very successful or interesting.

Now in the massively multi-player online roleplaying game I had several 50th level characters. The epic game in that was more like Birthright: you formed huge armies of up to a hundred players or small squads of six or eight and waged war in the frontiers against other castles, armies and skirmishing players. (Realm warfare was WAY better than anything World of Warcraft has to offer.)

I could get into some Fifth Edition Birthright if it had the same excitement and tactical immediacy of Dark Age of Camelot. Sounds more like a convention thing however. Or virtual tabletop.

 

[Ahnehnois]

I played briefly with a character or two in the upper thirties, and once with a character as a deity (lesser I think). Not exactly an everyday situation, and I didn't make them earn every level leading up to that, but I have done it.

 

[Hassassin]

I think I once played an 18th level character, so I chose that. May have been 17th actually, but I know others in the party had 9th level spells.

That's out of a total of around 10-20 D&D characters I've played for more than one session. I mostly DM, and have only DMed an 18th level party once, when we switched DMs with the above party.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

I'd love to play in an epic level campaign but my groups' campaigns have never lasted long enough. Heck, I think the highest we've ever gone has been 12th level.

 

[Blacky the Blackball]

My edition of choice is BECMI, and we normally play until we hit Immortality, and then stop there, with the characters being granted Immortality forming the end of the campaign.

When we've played 3.x we've normally stopped around 15th to 19th level whenever the campaign comes to a natural halt. We've only once dipped into Epic Level stuff and we were rather unsatisfied by the rules for it.

We've only played one 4e campaign and we only made it to around 14th level before giving up for Real Life reasons.