PnP AD&D

Kaddish · Post by **Kaddish** » Tue Aug 14, 2001 2:48 pm

Just a quick question....

What was the highest level you attained in AD&D?

And with what class?

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Tue Aug 14, 2001 3:00 pm

I was never much of a player, I usually ran campaigns. If any PC's in my realms got above 12th level, their adventuring days were pretty numbered. Fighters - time to get a stronghold, thieves - time to focus more on your guild, clerics - too fat by 12 level, mages - time to train the young ones. Sure PC's can get higher in level but only the true heroes. Once they hit 12 level, the adventures got to be real difficult. If they were good characters, they made a lot of powerful enemies. If they were evil characters, they had few places left to hide. So, I provided the characters the opportunity to turn to the 'academic' side of their mercenary positions.

Kaddish · Post by **Kaddish** » Tue Aug 14, 2001 4:31 pm

I was never DM much, in my group it was considered a chore; we usually passed around the responsibility. Our adventures were primarily hack and slash.

I'm thinking about creating a campaign, just for the hell of it, and see if anyone wants to play.

My highest lvl char was a 14th/lvl Cavalier, btw.

With a Light Dragonlance

He was decapitated with no chance of resurrection

[ 08-14-2001: Message edited by: Kaddish ]

average joe · Post by **average joe** » Tue Aug 14, 2001 4:47 pm

Such a sad ending for a hero of vhalor...he shoulda retired.

jthack · Post by **jthack** » Wed Aug 15, 2001 9:28 pm

I remember trying to DM games for some higher level characters. There was a couple of other manuals to help, Expert and Immortal which allowed 40th level I believe. There came to be a point where the rules just became two complicated to find weaknesses in God-like characters. The details required to keep track took any fun out of creating any quests in the Expert edition. I never even played the Immortal set. Read it once and didn't even want to try and understand.

Being a DM I never had a character of my own but a nice group of NPC to pick and choose from.

renegade · Post by **renegade** » Wed Aug 15, 2001 11:59 pm

I had a 13th-level Earth Cleric in a Dark Sun Campaign. Insofar, along with my 23-th level D&D wizard (known for having constructed a 18-mt-tall Iron Golem who emerged from a square pool and a suit of armor who could shapechange into 3 different forms with different powers -duh!-) he's the only one who hasn't been permanently put out of business (I have a fame in my RPG group for grisly and irreversible deaths

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