kaomera
Explorer
My definition of "campaign" was much different in 1e. I think the first group I ran got to about 5th level before it fell apart, but the next group where part of the same campaign, and the 5th level characters where still about. In fact it wasn't at all uncommon for old characters to be pulled out of retirement when the current group approached their level... In fact one group effectively skipped from (IIRC, and only counting the highest-level party member) level 3 to level 7 because I was allowing players to return a character to play as long as it was no higher than one level above than the highest level member of the party it was joining... Yeah, that got changed to "one level below" immediately thereafter...
IIRC the highest level character I ever DMed for in 1e was 12th, and actually was qualified for 13th but didn't survive long enough to complete training.
IIRC the highest level character I ever DMed for in 1e was 12th, and actually was qualified for 13th but didn't survive long enough to complete training.