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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 9185365" data-attributes="member: 996">It seems like high level play has been in a different product at least twice.BECMI had sets each of which covered a higher level range.3e had the Epic Level Handbook.I was barely aware that BECMI was a separate thing at the time, the boxed sets just seemed like a less serious approach to the same game than the &quot;Advanced&quot; books.&nbsp; Marketing with words like &quot;Advanced&quot; will spawn impressions like that in a middleschool boy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> But, upshot is I never checked it out, except for accidentally picking up the odd product that was actually for D&amp;D rather than AD&amp;D - which, was, again, barely noticeable.The 3e campaigns I was in lasted the entire run of 3.0 &amp; 3.5, and never came close to 20th level, so I never checked it out, either.But, based on what I've heard, the Epic Level Handbook was not well-received, while BECMI is a beloved cult classic.So, surely, it is a workable idea, but would have to be done well.&nbsp; Given the success of 5e's backwards-looking design, harkening back to BECMI would probably be the way to go.&nbsp; Divide the game up into the Tiers, boxed set for each Tier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 9185365, member: 996"] It seems like high level play has been in a different product at least twice. BECMI had sets each of which covered a higher level range. 3e had the Epic Level Handbook. I was barely aware that BECMI was a separate thing at the time, the boxed sets just seemed like a less serious approach to the same game than the "Advanced" books. Marketing with words like "Advanced" will spawn impressions like that in a middleschool boy. ;) But, upshot is I never checked it out, except for accidentally picking up the odd product that was actually for D&D rather than AD&D - which, was, again, barely noticeable. The 3e campaigns I was in lasted the entire run of 3.0 & 3.5, and never came close to 20th level, so I never checked it out, either. But, based on what I've heard, the Epic Level Handbook was not well-received, while BECMI is a beloved cult classic. So, surely, it is a workable idea, but would have to be done well. Given the success of 5e's backwards-looking design, harkening back to BECMI would probably be the way to go. Divide the game up into the Tiers, boxed set for each Tier. [/QUOTE]

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