D&D 5E What’s the highest level character you’ve played in 5E?

[ART!]

17th. Played that character from 5th to 16th, with a bit of play at 17th.

I've mostly DMed, so I haven't played a lot of PCs, but other than the above the highest I've gotten to is 6th.

 

[Maxperson]

70.4% of us have gone to level 11 or higher. Personally, I topped out at 17. The campaigns in my group go until they finish at high level. High level is 16 to 20, so I will eventually have one at 20th level.

 

[Quickleaf]

Haven't had the chance to be a player much. A couple one-or-two shots which I've played across the span of 1st to 11th level. I have DMed one party up to 12th level, ran one party at 11th level, and DMed several parties up to 4th or 5th level. So I answered 12 for the poll.

Never DMed or played characters up to 20th, so I stand in awe of those of you who did this successfully.

 

[Toledo]

My Samurai Fighter ex-sailor to noble to having lost it all again except equipment is at Level 14, and with a little luck can get her to L15 this Friday if she doesn't die. I would really like to try the Samurai's last stand option at L18 if we can get that far. Sadly I think the campaign is going to end just before that at L16 or L17.

 

[Wiseblood]

6th is my highest IIRC. 20th is the highest I ran. That campaign started in Pathfinder and was converted at about 10-12th ish.

 

[Nosaje]

I mostly DM and for my longest campaign for 5th the party is currently at 18th. It has taken almost 3 years playing once or twice a month using milestone XP. We plan on going to level 20. During 2nd edition I had a campaign that made it an average of 17th, that took about 5 years of playing an average of once a week. For 3rd edition I had a campaign go to 20th. Oddly enough all three of those campaigns were with the same core group of people. Other campaigns (all editions) have only lasted to about level 7-10 range.

As a player my highest PC for 5th is 7th level, but the campaign is still going. Other editons it has been around level 10 on average.

 

[TheSword]

22nd Level is the highest I’ve reached. Though we started at level 20

I’ve DMd Way of the Wicked that got the party to level 19 and took 2 years, which was fun.

 

[Kolvin]

20 or 21 but it's not common.

I generally end my campaigns at lvl 15 since I don't really enjoy high lvl play anyway.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Elodan]

We finished up our longest running D&D campaign ever earlier this year. Played my character from level 1 - 17. Epilogue coming and characters will be level 18.

This was very much the exception to the rule. I can count on my hand the number of my characters that survived to double digits in previous versions of D&D. DM says to expect most future campaigns to top out around levels 7 - 13.