Long campaigns

[Quasqueton]

What is the most number of levels a PC in your game ever gained through campaign play? This doesn’t necessarily mean they went from 1st level and up. For instance, 10 could mean “from 1st to 11th level” or “from 3rd to 13th level” or even “from 10th to 20th level”. It also doesn’t mean they never died – just that they were somehow revived to continue.

I’m going to ask you to *not* include campaigns were the PCs started above 10th level.

I’m interested in knowing how many DMs get to work with long-term (level-wise) campaigns.

Follow-up question: Have you ever seen a PC, in any edition, rise in play from 1st level to 20th level?

Quasqueton

 

[Vague Jayhawk]

I have been in a weekly campaign for about a year and a half. We started out at 1st level and are now just reaching 16th level. This is the highest level I have attained in a 3.x game. The campaign is winding down in the next couple of weeks and I will be sad to see it go. I was looking forward to maybe getting to 20th level.

 

[DaveyJones]

3-4 hrs/session; 5 session/week; 50 weeks/year; for 10+ years ( about a month shy of 11yrs)

~900 hrs of roleplay to gain 1 lvl

max lvl by the end of the campaign was 11th.

 

[Arkhandus]

So far, most I've seen is one PC going from 4th to 11th level in my first Rhunaria campaign. That game's on hiatus right now or he'd probably be 16th-level or so by now.

My Oriental Adventures campaign had one or two PCs go from 3rd-level to 8th or 9th I think. My other few campaigns have all been more like mini-campaigns, only lasting a few levels until folks couldn't make the time for the game anymore, or other circumstances (like when I had to move to AZ, and couldn't continue my face-to-face campaigns).

I've played and DMed with a handful of different groups online, but only.....lessee.....4 groups (?) face-to-face. 2 in Michigan (buddies, and folks at the FLGS), 2 in Arizona (folks at the university, and folks at the FLGS).

I give out different roleplaying XP though for each character based on their participation and efforts (combat XP is by-the-book though for all). Of course, simply showing up is some effort, so I still give a bit of RP XP to those that only participate a little but at least make the effort to show up for the session.

Quick edit: oh, the furthest I've seen anyone advance in play, when I've played rather than DMed, is from 1st to 11th level I think, in Emiricol's "For More Than Glory" campaign for The 13 Kingdoms; he tended to level us around the same time, so I think we were all 10th or 11th level when that went sorta on hiatus (Em's busy IRL for now and others are DMing that campaign in the meantime).

 

[Michael_R_Proteau]

When I ran players through Shades of Gray, which I wrote for Necromancer, the PCs started at level 1 and ended up at a few XP shy of 14th level when they completed it.

My current campaign has the PCs at 16th level, but I took that one over from another DM who moved. The continuous PCs started at 4th level, but many of the players currently in the game joined later (when PCs were about 12th level on average).

Those are the only longterm campaigns in the 3.x era I have run.

The longest in the 1E/2E era was starting at level 1 and ending at about 14th level.

-M

 

[Piratecat]

Follow-up question: Have you ever seen a PC, in any edition, rise in play from 1st level to 20th level?

Two PCs in my game have done so. The rest either started at a higher level or had players who moved away before they hit 20.

 

[DaveyJones]

Follow-up question: Have you ever seen a PC, in any edition, rise in play from 1st level to 20th level?

thank heavens, no.

played in a campaign that went from lvl 3 to 18th before i finally quit. it lasted 6 months playing every other sunday.

i kept thinking it would get better and it never did.

 

[Crothian]

1-35 is my record.

I've had about 5 campaings or so that have gone from 1-20.

 

[LogicsFate]

I shared DM time with others, so only up to 6-7 or so.

Ive gamed unders others where we'd never get more than a level before switching to a new campain, *cough*ADD*cough*. Very frustrating.

And no to the follow up.

 

[Jedi_Solo]

I'm a player in a game that just hit 21st level last week and started at 1st.

Edit: Two characters made it from 1 to 20+. Mine has made 21st and I'm not sure if the other is 21st or still 20th.