D&D General What does "This adventure is for mid-level adventurers" mean to you?

[MerricB]

Just doing one of my infrequent updates of my adventure database, and I found this advertising text:
"This one-shot adventure is perfect for a session of thrilling exploration, combat, and roleplay for mid-level adventurers."

And it really made me wonder what they intended the adventure for. Because "mid level" isn't a defined term, and we could have very different definitions of it.

Personally, I'd go with Tier 1 (1-4) being low level, Tier 2 (5-10) being mid level, Tier 3 (11-16) being high level, and Tier 4 (17-20) being very high level.

But for others, they'd look at that and say "it's for level 5-7 adventurers". Or for a few group, level 3-5!

Which is partly to say: use actual level ranges when advertising adventures! But also - how do you view the levels, and does the way you run campaigns change your perception.

(My current Greyhawk campaign has just had its first character hit level 17...)

Cheers!

 

[Maxperson]

Just doing one of my infrequent updates of my adventure database, and I found this advertising text:
"This one-shot adventure is perfect for a session of thrilling exploration, combat, and roleplay for mid-level adventurers."

And it really made me wonder what they intended the adventure for. Because "mid level" isn't a defined term, and we could have very different definitions of it.

Personally, I'd go with Tier 1 (1-4) being low level, Tier 2 (5-10) being mid level, Tier 3 (11-16) being high level, and Tier 4 (17-20) being very high level.

But for others, they'd look at that and say "it's for level 5-7 adventurers". Or for a few group, level 3-5!

Which is partly to say: use actual level ranges when advertising adventures! But also - how do you view the levels, and does the way you run campaigns change your perception.

(My current Greyhawk campaign has just had its first character hit level 17...)

Cheers!

If it went to 21 levels, it would be 7 levels for easy, 7 for mid, and 7 for high. We need to cut one, so I tend to cut that odd level from the low level category, since PCs tend to power up pretty quickly in 3e-5e. So for me 1-6 = low, 7-13 = mid, and 14+ = high.

As you can see, I don't do the 4 tier thing, since to me mid should be middle, because it's mid. Can't do mid with 4 tiers.

 

[TiQuinn]

If you told me mid-level, I’d think 5th level minimum, i.e. Tier 2.

 

[el-remmen]

6th to 10th level (but 10th is pushing it)

 

[Maxperson]

I also teeter back and forth between 13th being mid and high level, because of how spell levels work. 1st-3rd being low level spells, 4th-6th being mid level spells, and 7th to 9th being high level spells.

 

[Zardnaar]

Tier 2 mostly. Maybe early tier 3. High level is 13+ imho.

 

[bedir than]

Yeah, I think Tier 2 in 5e

 

[sevenbastard]

I would say 5 to 9, but that's more from expecting campaigns to end around 12 or 13.

A hold over from my 1e and 2e days. Before 20th level became the end goals.

 

[Chaltab]

As someone who really cut their DMing teeth with 4E, mid level would be paragon tier, 11 to 20.

Though I suppose in 5E it would be something more like 8 to 12.

 

[mamba]

Tier 2, 5 - 10