What's the highest level PC you've advanced from 1st level in 3E/3.5E D&D?
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Since 3rd edition I,ve DMed almost all the time. I did manage to get a 3.0 bard to 4th level before a once great DM got overwelmed by school, work and girlfriend. Another not so great DM ran a short campaign where I managed to get to 4th level with a cleric. And last week a newbie DM started a campaign of sorts, my dwarf paladin is already second level (no great expectations from this campaign either)
Elrik_DarkFury
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A level 16 Archer:fighter 6/abjurer 1/arcane archer 9
and a level 17 Wizard:Transmuter 10/arcane devotee 5/arc-mage 2
I can't exactly tell how much time did this take.I think a year and a half of non-consequtive role-playing.
I felt that the characters were advancing faster than i liked.(a level-up after 2-3 "good" sessions)
How much time do you need to level up?
Please tell also what kind of game do u usually play(combat oriented-role playing etc.) for this greatly affects the rate a character levels up.
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The Wizard
and a level 17 Wizard:Transmuter 10/arcane devotee 5/arc-mage 2
I can't exactly tell how much time did this take.I think a year and a half of non-consequtive role-playing.
I felt that the characters were advancing faster than i liked.(a level-up after 2-3 "good" sessions)
How much time do you need to level up?
Please tell also what kind of game do u usually play(combat oriented-role playing etc.) for this greatly affects the rate a character levels up.
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The Wizard
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Treebore
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My character has skyrocketed, along with the rest of the party, to 21st level from first, in just a couple of months with maybe 50 hours of play time. On one hand I am saying yeah, I am so kick butt and having a blast, but on the other hand the DM is already making noise to start new characters because of how powerful we have become. I am having fun because of the character and the game, not its level. I told him to hit us with some nasty level draining monsters in our sleep or something, Anyway, hopefully we will figure something out to keep the fun going.
As for my Dming i have DMed one party upt ot 11th/12th level in a little over a years time and then my current game has gone to 4th level just now making it to 5th. We have been playing that just about every Sat. night since early February. I learned a long time ago it is the character and the situations they get into that make a great game. Leveling is just leveling. It doesn't make your character fun to play.
As for my Dming i have DMed one party upt ot 11th/12th level in a little over a years time and then my current game has gone to 4th level just now making it to 5th. We have been playing that just about every Sat. night since early February. I learned a long time ago it is the character and the situations they get into that make a great game. Leveling is just leveling. It doesn't make your character fun to play.
MDSnowman
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The Snow family heirloom Arik Steelsword.... started way back in the day as a 1st level paladin, but now through hard work and dead beasties he's now a 23rd level Paladin.
Edit: Sorry, forgot before 2e became 3e I ran him nearly solo through Die Vecna Die for my dad.
Edit: Sorry, forgot before 2e became 3e I ran him nearly solo through Die Vecna Die for my dad.
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Epic
Had a halfling psion right when the Psionics Handbook came out.
Ended up a Nomad 10/Soulknife 10/Slayer 4, updated twice along the way, once to conform to the alternate rules by Bruce Cordell, then again to conform to Mindscapes, also by Bruce. I haven't updated him to 3.5, and I don't think I will. He just wouldn't be the same, and we let those guys retire to somewhere nice.
We played for about a year, 10-13 hours every other weekend. Then the DM was ready to drop to player status, and we started a new campaign.
I am currently a DM for a group, and they are close to 12th level. We play almost every weekend for 6-8 hours. I think we started in February. I tend to levy out a good deal of experience, including for role-playing. It makes the players level up faster (which they like), but I like giving the xp because it encourages the players to get involved more.
Had a halfling psion right when the Psionics Handbook came out.
Ended up a Nomad 10/Soulknife 10/Slayer 4, updated twice along the way, once to conform to the alternate rules by Bruce Cordell, then again to conform to Mindscapes, also by Bruce. I haven't updated him to 3.5, and I don't think I will. He just wouldn't be the same, and we let those guys retire to somewhere nice.
We played for about a year, 10-13 hours every other weekend. Then the DM was ready to drop to player status, and we started a new campaign.
I am currently a DM for a group, and they are close to 12th level. We play almost every weekend for 6-8 hours. I think we started in February. I tend to levy out a good deal of experience, including for role-playing. It makes the players level up faster (which they like), but I like giving the xp because it encourages the players to get involved more.
Jürgen Hubert
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I brought one druid up from 1st level all the way to 17th after one and a half years of weekly play. He was the only "starting character" left after all this time, too...
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