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#1 lyric Mar 07, 2005 17:05:49	What's the highest powered your campaigns have ever been?? My brother mixed Dark Sun with lots of campaigns, he had characters who started their Dragon metamorphosis @ level 30, mixing in not only artifacts like the dark lense and the psionatrix, but he had the character absorb several deities and demigod's as well as a big load of life energy to fuel all this. (One of the God's of death wanted to die so he helped him win psychic battles against lesser beings in order to make everything work out.. creature like Veccna were absorbed, as well as other equally powerful creations) Eventually that character became darn near invulnerable (with spellfire, shadow dragon abilities, shadow magic, the powers of the artifacts, the abilities of a shade as a template tossed on top, mixing in a dracolich as well..) As I said, they liked kicking arse.. and they weren't afraid to use any and every trick in the book to do it... I won't even tell you about the other character they created and how he was nearly the equal to this one! (lets just say though, that being on the sidelines of the creation of the above character, he got nocked through several planes of existence, eventually being hurtled towards a distant planet at mega speed, he had to burn off all his spellfire ability, absorbing his own magic, shade abilities, and more, in order to slow himself down enough to survive the impact... course... Krynn wasn't the same after the cataclysm, but hey, that's history ) In your High Level Epic Campaigns... just how powerful do you go???
#2 zombiegleemax Mar 07, 2005 17:10:10	We destroyed the multiverse. Twice.
#3 dawnstealer Mar 07, 2005 17:14:34	I've only had one group, way back at the beginning, that ever went to what would now be considered Epic levels. The groups I've had since then have tended towards the lower levels, although a few got up to 20 and beyond, rarely. In the campaigns that went high, all hell was broken loose before the PCs overstepped their bounds. Once, they took on the Dragon and lost. In the second attempt (same group, round '93-'94) decided to try a different tactic, traveled to the Outer Planes (making use of Planescape) and attempted to get weapons good enough to kill Borys. They got amazingly far before trying to, for some reason, take on the rulers of Baator. Not a good idea.
#4 zombiegleemax Mar 07, 2005 18:08:43	I would say mine are very high powered in general, the versions of the SK's we use are all 50 or more character levels. We don't neccessarily play high leveled characters all the time, but rather than a high end of 20's for PC's that WOTC seems to design around, we've widened that to allow for character leveling realistically into the 50's, and set the bar for "powers" meaning the most powerful NPC's, the dieties, the influential planar entities are considerably higher than that. Everyone in our group has one or more than one character that has been played for 10+ years that is in the epic to high epic (25-50) range. That's high level obviously, but they aren't conversing with (or killing) gods as the high end has been scaled appropriately. We use a lot of dicefreaks material, a lot of homemade stuff as well. Most of our games are somewhat set in FR, but we use a lot of planescape stuff as well. With regards to Dark Sun, I ran a very long campaign where the SK's through Dregoth became aware of the realms, actually worked together (partially) to mount an invasion, and then played out the ensuing battle. It culminated in the realms forces getting their butts kicked, but still winning the war as the many many epic spellcasters present in the realms united to more effectively seal off the two crystal sphere's. (rather than bore everyone, PM me for more details)
#5 zombiegleemax Mar 07, 2005 18:25:18	Hi, I had a group once around 95'-96' that has 20th+ lvl characters and decided to start their own army and city. The city got so big that it need more resources and power. So they took the army down to (I think it is called Walis) the gold mine. They stormed the mine easily took out the defilers through the use of Dimensional Portal. When the Merchant house came with their army and the support of others it was easily wiped out from above. They had in their employment thousands of soldiers and a tribe of halflings. Plus, a flock of Athasian Roc riders from the Ringing Mtns. After a couple years of fending off raiders and the armies of the nearby SK's the army was finally rdy to roll out since word had spread of this army rivaling a SK's. (I am not sure if it was a cleric spell/psionic/or mage but a army could pass through an entire portal, then have the portal after ten minutes become into a obsidian disk. And once you say the command word again this disk will open up to become a portal again to let everything out the way it walked right in. In the meantime everything in the portla no matter how long it had been would not age a bit and not realize any time had pass.) Anyway, the whole army did just that. Walked right in. The caster took the disk to Gulg. Right outside her borders. Unloaded the army, and gave her an ultimadum. Leave the city or die. She chose to be arrogant and died in a huge battle against the PC's and the army. All I remember was that a fighters ability to recieve large amounts of fighters throught lvl 10+ was insane.... Nibenay closed his walls off to all cities and trade. Urik brought out its army to meet ours...and then the campaign slowly died off from there on in. The characters became like lvl 25 or something like that and the Preserver/Psionicist was in the 5th stage of the transformation. :p The first thing the Preserver did with a wish spell was call for 10 gold dragons from Krynn to fight the fight against the SK's for 2 years time. Once that had transpired they could leave if they had wished.... The cleric of Earth in the campaign kicked much butt too. After all, becoming a greater Elemental that causes earthquakes to bring down ANY city wall can be very useful. -intorneurotic
#6 pringles Mar 07, 2005 19:00:09	The highest we made his level 12 in forgotten realms and level 10 in Dark sun. But hey, they already killed Kalak with the hearthwood spear! :D
#7 Sysane Mar 07, 2005 21:32:24	My old 2e campaign I DM'ed for reached 15 level which started around 93' and ended around 99'. We're about to start up again with some of those PCs coverted to 3.5 and play Dregoth Ascending
#8 dracochapel Mar 08, 2005 22:09:24	My 21st level half-elf Dragon (before it clarified that only humans can become dragons) left Athas and wandered around the planes until he allied with a Duke of Hell who was a conversion of a Wamphyri (from Brian Lumley's novels). Miss the good old time of spending 10 minutes at the start of every day trying to work out what spell to cast in the first battle we fought. Ended up with an invasion from heaven led by a Paladin riding a super-silver dragon and hordes of minions. Not really DS by the end.
#9 zombiegleemax Mar 16, 2005 9:39:13	My 21st level half-elf Dragon (before it clarified that only humans can become dragons) Huh? As of Dragon-Kings (which I too used) half-elfs could become Dragons! (Actually thats the only type of advanced being they could become. In my group one of my players does play a half-elf trying to become one (under 3.5ed Rules he is 27th level -- a Rogue/Defiler/Arcane Archer/Psion/Cerebremancer). I do have a group who played through all the offical DarkSun adventures of old and which now averages 24th level (now converted to 3.5). The next adventure for them will be: Dregoth Ascending and I am greatly looking forward to that. (Though to have stats for Dregoth till then would be nice as my groupd will surely at least try to launch a few attacks upon him, and with such ECL-levels I am not sure I should use the "the DM is encouraged to simply slauther them" method ;) ).
#10 zombiegleemax Mar 16, 2005 11:29:51	I did maybe a dozen sub-10th-lvl campaigns, 3 12th-15th lvl campaigns, and one that ended up with a 23rd lvl dragon, a 22nd lvl rain elemental, a 27th lvl psionicist and a 28th lvl Trader. I'd love to run DA when I get back with my old gang this summer.