6-10 for one sad reason, I've never gotten a character higher. Yes I have had a higher level character for a one shot, or something, but I have never advanced higher from low level. It would probably be diferent if I had, but my little 9th level mage in 1st edition was so much fun. My fighter at 7th level in 2nd edition was cool. Sigh, I guess I just need a campain where the DM won't stop when we can cast 5th level spells.
What levels do you most enjoy playing?
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I think that 6-10 works the best, especially as a DM. At higher levels, record keeping with spells and magic items tends to get pretty excessive at times. Characters in this level can face a variety of different opponents without overpowering them or being overpowered either. 1-5 is great for role-playing campaigns, but heavy combat games are difficult to run at those levels because of the characters' susceptibility to being killed.
MythandLore
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I like pretty much anything above 5th level. 
At first level it just seems like your more frail they you are even in real life.
A cat could kill you for god sake.
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At first level it just seems like your more frail they you are even in real life.
A cat could kill you for god sake.
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CRGreathouse
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I voted for 11-15, but ideally I'd vote for 8-14.
Blood Jester
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This one. Oh, and the next one!
Seriously, I enjoy the new abilities my character has just gained, and testing his limits. I also enjoy striving for the next level, and trying to figure out what I might do with the next new ability. There is also the fun of developing my characters 'personality' which, I feel, you can only really do in 'the here-and-now'.
Thus, my answer above.
Seriously, I enjoy the new abilities my character has just gained, and testing his limits. I also enjoy striving for the next level, and trying to figure out what I might do with the next new ability. There is also the fun of developing my characters 'personality' which, I feel, you can only really do in 'the here-and-now'.
Thus, my answer above.
Altalazar
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I really like all the levels. I like to take my character on a journey from 1st level to 20th and possibly beyond.
Sometimes the story makes the journey end sooner, and if it makes a good story, then I am satisfied with that and I move on.
I'd have to say I am interested now in 6-10 mostly because that is where my games (I'm DM) are getting to, and I did play in a game from 8th-10th and found that fun as well.
I think I will start to drift into the higher levels as time goes on, simply because with all the 3E campaigns I've done now, the lower levels are like 'been there, done that, time to move on.'
Sometimes the story makes the journey end sooner, and if it makes a good story, then I am satisfied with that and I move on.
I'd have to say I am interested now in 6-10 mostly because that is where my games (I'm DM) are getting to, and I did play in a game from 8th-10th and found that fun as well.
I think I will start to drift into the higher levels as time goes on, simply because with all the 3E campaigns I've done now, the lower levels are like 'been there, done that, time to move on.'
Zelda Themelin
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I don't think levels really matter so much. I don't have much preferance as DM either, except I hate always making players start level 1, but level 3-4 is fine. As player I like best high levels of Levels 16-20 at moment, perhaps because my character has been strugling at level 15 for some time now. 
Well, really, I have never actually gotten to play that end of levels, or similar power-level in rpg with no levels. DM's have just kicked my characters over that enjoyable part right to epic. And I'd want to actually get to play character who turns into doing epic quests/other stuff willingly, and not through some unstobbable Deux Ex Machina-effect.
Well, really, I have never actually gotten to play that end of levels, or similar power-level in rpg with no levels. DM's have just kicked my characters over that enjoyable part right to epic. And I'd want to actually get to play character who turns into doing epic quests/other stuff willingly, and not through some unstobbable Deux Ex Machina-effect.
I prefer level 3 to 8. When you reach 3rd. level you have a little more buffer for survival than on the first two levels, and it is possible to play (and as a DM plan) more dangerous encounters without anyone dying from just one lucky dieroll.
When you progress upwards in level from 3rd, every level counts, and you grow quite rapidly in power. While you are starting to see some specialization, none of the characters have still reached the skill level where they can dominate a single type of encounter (e.g. the thielf will not necessarily dominate all skill rolls, the wizard will not solve most probelmss with magic a.s.o).
When you hit level 9/10, you abilities start to overhelm you. Spell casters have lots of spells, everybody has oodles of different magic items - and you start to forget special abilities, relvant feats, spells, items a.s.o. Keeping track of everything distracts the players from roleplaying, and combats quite often degenerates to flipping through oodles of rules for all the differnets spells and abilities.
In addition the higher level spells include a few save-or-die variants, making encounters more random. IMHO that is less fun than the more drawn-out encounters you get on level 3-8.
Not that a 16th level romp can be fun from time to time, but in general I prefer lower levels.
.Ziggy
When you progress upwards in level from 3rd, every level counts, and you grow quite rapidly in power. While you are starting to see some specialization, none of the characters have still reached the skill level where they can dominate a single type of encounter (e.g. the thielf will not necessarily dominate all skill rolls, the wizard will not solve most probelmss with magic a.s.o).
When you hit level 9/10, you abilities start to overhelm you. Spell casters have lots of spells, everybody has oodles of different magic items - and you start to forget special abilities, relvant feats, spells, items a.s.o. Keeping track of everything distracts the players from roleplaying, and combats quite often degenerates to flipping through oodles of rules for all the differnets spells and abilities.
In addition the higher level spells include a few save-or-die variants, making encounters more random. IMHO that is less fun than the more drawn-out encounters you get on level 3-8.
Not that a 16th level romp can be fun from time to time, but in general I prefer lower levels.
.Ziggy
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