Poll: What is the highest level you've ever gamed to?

[Mark Hope]

Mostly DM, but my highest level character is 16th (a human fighter who started in B/X, then got converted to AD&D1e, then AD&D2e. I have a 3e version that I've never played.)

As DM, it's 26+. Had a long-running AD&D campaign where the highest level characters were in the mid-to-upper 20s, including one guy who made 20th level cleric, then dual-classed and took another 12 levels in a spellcasting class. I think my highest limit so far is 11th in 3e.

Agree with those who say that the game doesn't necessarily break down in the upper levels. For me, the best bits of the AD&D game don't start until around 14th level, heh .

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

Thanks to everyone for responding in the poll so far. It's been very interesting reading about your level experiences and I like to reminisce about the past characters I've DM'd and played. As someone in another thread stated, it's not the end level that makes the game fun, it's the journey and it looks like a lot of journeying has gone on!

 

[Corathon]

Highest level PC that I ever had was a 19th level cleric. He began at 3rd level, but he was level drained for 2 levels that he got back through hard knocks, so IMO he earned all 19 levels.

Highest level PCs that I've ever DMed for reached 15th level, but one of those is still active and will probably break to 16th level in 2012. All 3of these PCs started at 1st.

Both the campaign that I played in and the one that I run are AD&D 1E. Both accomplishments took many years.

 

[Wombat]

Assuming all answers are for D&D...

In my 35+/- years of gaming...

I played up to Level 7 ... then again, I play very rarely.

I have GM'd up to Level 15, but prefer lower.

I prefer "lower level/power" sort of games, ones where the characters are still identifiable on a human (...or name your race...) level, rather than verging over to the superhero level. I guess this is also mirrored in my love of fiction, where I prefer historical fiction to superhero comics.

 

[Gronin]

First of all it is very cool to read about everyone elses experiences. Thanks to Traveon for starting it.

In my 35 or so years of gaming 15th is the highest level I have ever played.

To be fair though that was 1E and I was an Assassin and that was level cap. I ran with a few characters who had made it to 17th. DMing I ran a campaign where the characters once got as high as 17th or 18th.

For second and third edition I mostly DMed and it never really got higher than 12th to 14th level before I found the system began to have issues.

As far as 4E is concerned I have DMed to 14th and played to 14th. I am currently running a Zeitgeist campaign and am looking forward to taking it all the way to 30th and will be starting a Burning Skies campaign after Christmas and am hoping to take that campaign to its 30th level conclusion.

Oh yeah and with the ODD experience I only got as high as 9th level and felt pretty damn lucky to get there. Some days I kinda miss the play them the way you roll them and live and die with the rolls you get (hoping I do not sound like a Monty Python routine --- well when I played D & D we had it so tough that we had to......)

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

[MENTION=7603]Gronin[/MENTION] thanks for posting about your experiences. Here's hoping that your new campaigns all reach an epic conclusion!

 

[Treebore]

In 1E my highest level PC played from first level was 27/35 dual class. We had tables worked up carrying on the progression the books established.

2E, my highest level XP character was probably my 27th level Paladin.

In 3E my highest level PC was a Rokugan Samurai played up to level 54, with a World of Warcraft Warlock being my second highest at 48th.

As DM my highest level game was 24th. My highest current level game is 18th with Castles and Crusades.

 

[Votan]

In 3E, I DM'ed a campaign to 17th level. That was very, very fun,

In AD&D I never recall getting beyond 8th as a player and I was much less likely to DM. I did more BECMI than AD&D, not always by choice.

In 4th edition I have never broken seventh level as a player and I have never DMed.

I have seem 10th level in Rolemaster (as a player)

I currently DM 9th level characters in Pathfinder.

 

[Desdichado]

Age of Worms, D&D 3.5, level 23, I think. 22 or 23.

Other than that, I've only very rarely played a character above 10th and never otherwise above 15th.

 

[Blackbrrd]

Played up to level 17 or 18 in a 3.5 group that had gone on for 3-4 years.
DM-ed a group up to level 11, but it was a 3.0 group

The group I played in ground to a halt because combat easily takes the whole session at level 17-18 and the preparations the DM had to make were too much.

The group I DM-ed stopped at level 11 because I was a bit tired of the game, had a bad day, threw in a level 14 Cleric with about 27 effective wisdom, destructed one character, disintegrated another, then confused the whole party except for a sorc that teleported out with a gnome wizard under his arm. Never took the game up again.