What is your favorite level to play as a DM?

[the Jester]

1st through 3rd and 17th and up.

But maybe that's cause the two games I'm running right now fall into those levels... whenever this question comes up, my answer always seems to correspond to my current gaming crew.

 

[Taneel BrightBlade]

5-10 with 7 fave. I like this range 'cause I can keep track of thier powers and such and make tough challenges easily

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I picked 3rd through 6th. Survival no longer hangs by a hair, and depends more on PC ability than on chance. Spells are interesting and numerous but not overwhelming in power or options. Pretty much any plot is still workable without kludging.

My PCs are 9th level now, and I have a much more difficult time designing or running challenging -- but not overwhelming -- encounters for them. It seems like at this level a single mistake is much more determinative of an encounter's outcome than at 3rd through 6th.

But I'm learning. I just hope I don't fall too far behind in my DM skill, relative to their PCs' level.

 

[Mark]

Almost 350 voters in the DMs' poll compared to only 91 voters in the players' poll -

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=99600&page=2

Odd, isn't it?

 

[Quickbeam]

I like running games in the 7th-9th level range. The array of monster and creature combos is wonderful; the players have solid equipment and a tasty selections of spells (as do their foes); and the games are generally reaching a point where many unexpected obstacles can be handled more readily.

 

[Gorilla726]

I love DMing for level 1-3, and 3-5 is a fun range too.

 

[Mark]

There must be a lot of folks on EN World who DM-only (or who prefer that) since there's so many who stepped up on this poll but not on the other. I'm kinda in that boat, too, in that I rarely play and actually prefer to DM most of the time. Do othe rpeople feel that way or am I perhaps misinterpreting the results (so far) of the poll?

 

[Nifft]

So far, 12th level. As the PCs progress, my favorite level will increase, I hope.

-- N