What's the highest PC level in your current D&D campaign?

[Angcuru]

highest level character I ever played was my LVL 6/31 Fighter/Paladin who nuked Cthulhu's avatar in less than 2 rounds. next time you do a poll like this, include 21+ for them epics!

current campaign-wise, all of us are 5th level, and we're doing damned well. right now we're on a side quest remeniscent of Brotherhood of the Wolf, what with hunting the big bad beast and all. It was funny, after the dwarf smacked it in the face with his lawful holy +3 warhammer, it flew off(it had wings by the way), and my elven ranger chased after it while the others tended to the mage who had gotten roughed up. ANYway, I was chasing this thing, shooting at it with my longbow while my horse was running full speed, WITHOUT the mounted archery feat. Still, my bad-assness allowed me to peg it a few times before it got away, dodging the blood the spurted down from it. When we got back to the city to explain to the nobles that we'd found, fought, and badly injured this thing, they didn't believe us, so the dwarf wrings some of the thing's blood out of my hair onto the nobles. APPARENTLY I had been riding across the countryside and walking through a human town with this thing's blood staining my hair black-red, without my knowing it. That's just weird.

Now all them humans think that us elves run around dying our hair in the blood of our enemies.

 

[shilsen]

Getting close to the end of a RttToEE campaign (I'm not DM-ing). Party consists of three 13th-lvl and two 12th-lvl PCs.

Angcuru, your party's 5th lvl dwarf has a +3 lawful holy warhammer?

 

[Angcuru]

what can I say? My character is heir to the rulership of a guild of elven warriors, and the armory was getting a bit lonely.(that's the REALLY short version)

Besides, that's nothing compared to my +4 Sentient Shocking Burst Longsword which occasionally sucks the soul out of anyone it strikes.

what can I say, the DM can be overgenerous, but at least he gives something of an explanation for it. but maybe the gifts would have something to do with the fact that we were charged with hunting down and slaying an ancient dragon of unknown origin. Besides, the stuff we fight is a bit tougher than what the average 5th lvl character fights.

 

[Gizzard]

I'm curious how this poll will turn out; I would expect it to be skewed towards the high end just by the nature of the title. You might want to crosscheck your results with my own poll from a couple months ago where I asked what levels people had played (low, medium, high) in their last campaign.

Here is the thread: Character Level Poll

 

[Silver Moon]

Our highest level is 11th, but we've only been playing for 21 years now. The reason it is rather low after all that time is that each player has between 4 to 9 different characters which we alternate playing.

 

[Pants]

In the Game I run:
10th lvl Dwarven Thief - almost 11th
10th lvl Sun-Elf Nuker... errr I mean Wizard - almost 11th
9th lvl Gnomish Druid
9th lvl Human Cleric - close to 10, I think

In the games I play:
4/5 lvl Elven Fighter/Illusionist
4 th lvl Dwarven Cleric of Pelor

 

[HellHound]

18th level human Monk / Tattood Monk about to get his first level of Dragon legendary class.

Rest of the party is level 17-18 also.

That is our Oathbound campaign.

Our Dragonstar / Rokugan game is level 4

and our Three Rogues of Arcanis game is level 2.

 

[John Crichton]

As DM: 3rd - Newly started campaign, I started the PC's @ 3rd.
As PC: 9th - Long running campaign that I just joined. I started @ 6th and am now 7th.

 

[barsoomcore]

I'd be more interested in seeing what's the highest level PC cross-referenced with campaign length.

Barsoom's been running for about two and a half years, now. The one remaining character from the original group is now 11th level. We've played, lemme see, 76 sessions, I think, so that's like a game every two weeks. Little more than that. So characters are averaging one level every 7 sessions.

And the party just got hit with a nasty area dispel and lost nearly all their magic items, super-powers and other goodies. All the have now is the fighter's sheath that gives him quickdraw, the skull that casts cure spells and the amulet of non-detection (which for them, is REALLY important). They were very choked, having just received some kewl tattoos, magic rings and other goodies. Heh, heh, heh...

 

[blackshirt5]

It wasn't from the armory Angcuru. That was the one that he got while the monk was being shredded by 100 Rutterkin demon in that corridor in the Underdark. The waraxe, that was from the armory.

Yes, it's a bit high-powered. But I don't like handing out a glut of magic items. I prefer for characters to hold onto em(and still have em be useful). Plus, as Angcuru already pointed out, they're facing things a bit more poweful than you'd normally fight at 5th level.

As a final note, does it really matter as long as we're all having fun? My answer to the question is usually no. The fights are still tough, the game is still fun, and we get to see some really good RP and some hardcore fighting.