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Highest level chacter you've played
Whats the highest level character you've ever played.
Mine was a level 11 fighter, then the guy i played with moved away :(
and i mean a character you've leveled from scratch not one you've built with a starting level of something stupid or PUG characters.
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The longest-running campaign I was ever in spanned a few years and took us from slaying goblins at level 1 to becoming generals in a war between planes at about level 17.
The second highest, we were about level 12 or 14 (I don't recall exactly). That DM seemed to be having trouble challenging a party of that level, however, which is why I think the campaign ended. It didn't help that we tended to get treasure way out of scale with our level. A 10th-level warblade does not normally have a +5 lifedrinking greatsword.
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Two and a half years of play, level 1 to level 18.
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I recently finished a campaign where I was effecively 115th level. It was a massive headache, and everyone's pretty much glad it's over.
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Mongoose87
I recently finished a campaign where I was effecively 115th level. It was a massive headache, and everyone's pretty much glad it's over.
...Pun Pun is that you
joking aside how exactly did you manage that
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I level looped one, and in such a manner that it wasn't arbitrary, but actually infinite.
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I played a gnome wizard from 1-24. The first 16 levels of that were a year or two. After that we played very, very sporadically. Spell preparation was a huge pain and now I only play sorcerers.
A boss of mine in college had the longest running D&D character I ever encountered. He was in his mid thirties and still played a character from high school, albeit annually at best. I think he said it was level 70 at that point.
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99. Not D&D, though. Or AD&D.
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25th level. A seelie court killoren druid.
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20, and still going. After tomorrow, we might hit 21.
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Highest I ever got was level 15, starting at level 5 originally. My beloved warmage 1/abjurer 4/ultimate magus 10. What a badass.
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valadil
I played a gnome wizard from 1-24. The first 16 levels of that were a year or two. After that we played very, very sporadically. Spell preparation was a huge pain and now I only play sorcerers.
A boss of mine in college had the longest running D&D character I ever encountered. He was in his mid thirties and still played a character from high school, albeit annually at best. I think he said it was level 70 at that point.
what was so bad about the spell preparation. level 70, hard core
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I played a Wizard/Sorcerer/Ultimate Magus from 5th to 20th level over the course of a two year campaign. The DM occasionally talks about picking those characters up again.
In a different game, this one Exalted, I played a Night Caste from exaltation up through 6 essence (the equivalent of entry level epic) over the course of 3 or 4 years. I think he had almost 50 charms.
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I have yet to play a DnD game since I dont know anyone nearby that plays. I am quite intrested in playing but alas tis not to be quite yet.
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I think my first 3.0-5 character finally topped out at about ECL 78. He was something like a Cleric 16/Wizard 16/True Necromancer 14/Loremaster 10/Planeswalker 10/Blackguard 5 Lich. We started at level 18 and leveled really quickly, especially since we ignored the rule about only gaining one level at a time.
He eventually displaced Velsharoon as the FR god of necromancy.
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I once played a fear-mongering Gnome Warmage/Favored Soul/Mystic Theurge. Since I was gimping myself so bad just for the flavor of the character, the DM gave me extra Feats that were only related to Intimidation/Fear. I got her up to level 15 before the other characters in the game were so rediculous they were facing off with (and defeating) CR 19-20 creatures. Of course, by then I had somewhere in the area of +45 Intimidate... So I was technically the scariest member of the party. :smallbiggrin:
Of course, as DM I've run two campaigns that reached level 20 and am currently running the Savage Tide adventure path. The PCs have just reached level 19 (one still at 18 because of LA buy-off and being a replacement for a character who died) and are on their way to find allies against Demogorgon.
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During my senior year of college, out in Colorado, my (nearly) weekly group played an Aundair-based Eberron campaign starting at 3rd level and ending at 16th.
My character was Beryn Sorn, a LG human ranger/wizard/homebrew-PrC summoner/gish. I also played a secondary character: Oskar the Serpent, a native of Xen'Drik, a TN phrenic-human soulknife/egoist (phrenic template made up for the major suckitude of soulknife rather well).
The campaign started with local heroes from the last war being pressed into service as militia of sorts and ended with them facing up against a malicious vestige that was trying to claw its way back into reality. Also contained successful rescues of Queen Aurala vs. assassination attempts, being knighted, reconnecting with a missing lover and child, being forced to slay one's own brother to prevent him falling prey to a terrible curse that was slowly turning him into a fiendish ooze, airship battles, a visit to the Mournland, being killed and (successfully) mounting a quest through Dolurrh to return to life, and a battle in a volcano hopping from one rock pillar to another above a pool of lava.
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I have a 24th level King in my old folder somewhere...
must remember to convert the King class into 3.5...
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LordShotGun
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I have yet to play a DnD game since I dont know anyone nearby that plays. I am quite intrested in playing but alas tis not to be quite yet.
Is there a shop in your area that sells, among other things, the paraphernalia associated with such activities? Enquiries there may aid you in your quest.
It is, if I may be so bold, how I begun this endeavour.
Best of luck to you on this task, LordShotGun.
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Level 13 is the highest I've ever gotten, it was a Gnoll Druid/MoMF. The campaign was just me and my brother alternating DMing, not a very cohesive plot but one of the most fun campaigns I've been a part of.
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19. VoP Monk/Tattooed Monk. (In my defense, BoED had just come out and we were test-driving it). I think I was the only character in that campaign who didn't die at one point or another.
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LordShotGun
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I have yet to play a DnD game since I dont know anyone nearby that plays. I am quite intrested in playing but alas tis not to be quite yet.
i know the feeling
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raitalin
I think my first 3.0-5 character finally topped out at about ECL 78. He was something like a Cleric 16/Wizard 16/True Necromancer 14/Loremaster 10/Planeswalker 10/Blackguard 5 Lich. We started at level 18 and leveled really quickly, especially since we ignored the rule about only gaining one level at a time.
He eventually displaced Velsharoon as the FR god of necromancy.
well... sucks to be Velsharoon then, i had a freind whos cleric ascended to god hood at level twenty, some how that doesn't sound as cool any more.
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L28 (Epic) Conjurer (13) / Master Specialist (10) / Abjurant Champion (5)
L27 (Epic) Favored Soul (23) / Sacred Exorcist (2) / +Saint
The Favored Soul was by far the toughest to kill. His worst save was a 40. The Ultimate buffer (DMM Persist on a Spontaneous Caster) & Epic Leadership. His Charisma could be seen from Space.
The Conjurer though was capable of putting out 1,000 Damage (No Save, No Resist) in 1 Round w/o going pun pun or bending the rules. It was completely within RAW and RAI.
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50. Wizard/Ur-Priest/Theurge/Inc/Dweomerkeeper/Factotum/Swiftblade...you know the drill, "make dumbest X-level character and try to kill equals/gods"-type game. That said, at that point levels hold little meaning anymore as the game has devolved into a chess match between best uses of epic spellcasting, and finding holes in your opponent's impenetrable defenses with your dozen actions per turn long ago.
It's about the same to play level 30 as it is to play level 100, at least without heavy restrictions to skill boosting/if epic spellcasting were derived off another stat instead and mitigation were heavily altered. 'cause the only restriction at that point is how high a Spellcraft check you can make, and within reason, the spells of practical use are all eminently doable on 21.
Though from scratch? 21. Certain Elf Gish.
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ghost_warlock
The campaign started with local heroes from the last war being pressed into service as militia of sorts and ended with them facing up against a malicious vestige that was trying to claw its way back into reality. Also contained successful rescues of Queen Aurala vs. assassination attempts, being knighted, reconnecting with a missing lover and child, being forced to slay one's own brother to prevent him falling prey to a terrible curse that was slowly turning him into a fiendish ooze, airship battles, a visit to the Mournland, being killed and (successfully) mounting a quest through Dolurrh to return to life, and a battle in a volcano hopping from one rock pillar to another above a pool of lava.
So what happened in the second adventure
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A yearlong campaign of ours that recently ended saw the party move from level 1 nobodies to level 20 heroes who killed and drank the blood of Major Tom (David Bowie), thus acquiring 3 Divine Ranks (and the 20 Outsider hit die that comes with them).
The end of the campaign saw us defeat the major gods of the campaign (who used the stats of Admodeus, the Tarrasque and Orcus, all with the same divine ranks we had, along with an ECL 60ish homebrewed monster)--at the same time. 'Twas awesome fun.
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I played a first edition AD&D fighter to level 27, after 4 years of weekly weekend marathon sessions.
I had a 12th level tattooed monk recently, but he was killed by massive damage....
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Chaelos
A yearlong campaign of ours that recently ended saw the party move from level 1 nobodies to level 20 heroes who killed and drank the blood of Major Tom (David Bowie), thus acquiring 3 Divine Ranks (and the 20 Outsider hit die that comes with them).
The end of the campaign saw us defeat the major gods of the campaign (who used the stats of Admodeus, the Tarrasque and Orcus, all with the same divine ranks we had, along with an ECL 60ish homebrewed monster)--at the same time. 'Twas awesome fun.
i am yet to see a situation were defeating major gods won't be awsome fun
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Stryke
i am yet to see a situation were defeating major gods won't be awsome fun
It was made better by the fact that they were essentially divine, marginally more evil versions of Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and the frozen head of Walt Disney.
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I'm sure to raise some eyebrows with this, but... 5th level.
I have been playing and DM'ing D&D for 30+ years now, with my home-brewed campaign-world hitting it's 30-year continuous anniversary just this year. I have ran several campaigns within this world, each lasting several years long, and the characters of those campaigns remain in my world, though effectively retired. They still do cameos now and then, and can be called upon for short-term story arcs.
The current campaign, Tiatia, has just had it's grande finale and is now in the epilog, and will be concluding soon after a glorious 9-year run.
The very first character I played is still alive today, the primary group of characters my Tiatia group played are the same ones they started out with, and many of the early characters my overall campaign world started with still exist after 25+ years.
And yet, after all that time, the highest level character I have ever played, or DM'ed for, is only 5th level.
What can I say? We like low-level in our little corner of the world.
We have run higher level characters as one-shots; I don't count them as we didn't start them as our own from 1st level, but just took the stats out of the back of a module. Some of those high-level modules were fun, but... bleh. A fighter wading through a horde of 18-foot tall giants is kinda silly, if you ask me. The only thing worse would be if a wizard stood back and cast some spell which took them all down without as much a whimper.
Give me a sword and the best armor my meager funds can buy, and put me against a tribe of orcs anyday.