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FACT: The oldest continuously-played Dungeons & Dragons character is believed to be a 237th level magic-user named Kirin Blade. Tom Darcy started his character in 1979, and has played the game every weekend since then for an estimated total of 22,500 hours.

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I get bored by 12th level. Highest I ever got was 18th. After a certain level it's just quantities of beasties rather than different ones.

Sphere of Annihilation hidden in a bag of marbles?
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babbage wrote:
I get bored by 12th level. Highest I ever got was 18th. After a certain level it's just quantities of beasties rather than different ones.

Sphere of Annihilation hidden in a bag of marbles?

No kidding. I mean, what does his character DO at that point? Contrary to what some powergamers might think, having all-encompassing godlike power is pretty damn boring. It's like sitting through an insurance seminar.

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A room with 285 different save or die traps. I mean, statistically speaking, he'll fail at least one of those rolls
other than that... let em fight zeus and get his ass whooped!

Cheers,

J.

I'd throw in the towel...
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If this guy has been playing every weekend for the past 27 years, that works out to an average of 16 hours each and every weekend...my solution, have the DM bring a naked woman to the game.

The chances that this guy has a girlfriend or wife that's willing to let him game every weekend for 27 years is extremely low. This sight of a real naked female anywhere near his proximity will likely give him a heart attack and by proxy his character will be no more.

I'm an evil bastard
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naturaltwenty wrote:
If this guy has been playing every weekend for the past 27 years, that works out to an average of 16 hours each and every weekend...my solution, have the DM bring a naked woman to the game.

The chances that this guy has a girlfriend or wife that's willing to let him game every weekend for 27 years is extremely low. This sight of a real naked female anywhere near his proximity will likely give him a heart attack and by proxy his character will be no more.

I'm an evil bastard

Give the naked woman a clothespin, just in case.
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You could always have him walk unwittingly into a disguised portable hole, which could then be dropped into a bag of holding by a kobold. /RIFT/ Buh-bye!
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"Galstaff, ye are in a cornfield, when a moustachioed man approaches. What say ye?"

"I shun him."

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"Knowledge, logic, reason, and common sense serve better than a dozen rule books."

-- E. Gary Gygax

you could have 236 18th level wizards each wishing for him to be dropped 1 level each

jman5000 wrote:
you could have 236 18th level wizards each wishing for him to be dropped 1 level each

Ooh, I like that idea!
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"Galstaff, ye are in a cornfield, when a moustachioed man approaches. What say ye?"

"I shun him."

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"Knowledge, logic, reason, and common sense serve better than a dozen rule books."

-- E. Gary Gygax

Easy. I'll hit him with the Time Corps traveling on a Burroughs Irrelevancy Bus.

The Circle of Orobourus ought to handle it nicely.
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I just don't know why you'd want to play someone like that. I certainly understand the pride of having a high level character a) live to high level and b) influence the world around him/her, but ..... the adventuring would be pretty damned boring after (IMO) 12th-15th level. If a character of mine lived to 15th level, he'd retire and I'd start a newbie.

Of course, I'm a sucker for 1st-5th level adventuring.

G

jman5000 wrote:
you could have 236 18th level wizards each wishing for him to be dropped 1 level each

Evil, evil I tell ya!
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Take him through Killer Kobold Cave.

Might do the trick.
Squish...impale...burn...squish some more, burn some more, squish again.

Egads, he escapes and runs around the corner...

Burn...Squish...burn some more, throw it in reverse and squish again

rinse and repeat.

...oh, and spears for sh**s and giggles.

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this is actually funny. this character is actually more work than "winning" at becmi D&D - you know, from the Immortals book, that tells you to become an 'old one' (or whatever they were called) you had to become 36th level, become an immortal, rise to the highest ranks of the immortals, forego all your immortality by becomming a 1st level character again, and doing it all over again.

you win at that point
guess the dude didn't want to win. Thats a shame, because I always play Role playing games to win
Cheers,

J.

Seriously though...

I'd have made him retire the character long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
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I suppose my answer would be

Not be gullible.

Why is he so low level? My first summer of playing 7 days a week fourteen hours a day we had characters pushing 50, if he has truly been playing the game that long he should be much higher level.

Of course we where all like 12 the joys of youth

Ken

Inkpot wrote:
From Gullible Info:

FACT: The oldest continuously-played Dungeons & Dragons character is believed to be a 237th level magic-user named Kirin Blade. Tom Darcy started his character in 1979, and has played the game every weekend since then for an estimated total of 22,500 hours.

Ink

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What kind of self-loathing DM would let this guy continue to run such a character?
He woulda retired years ago if I were the DM. Plus, dude, get a life. Seriously...

You walk into a room with 100 ghosts. Um, let's see, 100d4=250 years. Your character turns to dust. Sucks to be you.
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FACT: The oldest continuously-played Dungeons & Dragons character is believed to be a 237th level magic-user named Kirin Blade. Tom Darcy started his character in 1979, and has played the game every weekend since then for an estimated total of 22,500 hours.

For the kick of it (yes, I do have a life but it's on hold right now ), I've checked the Rulescyclopedia for the XP progression of the Magic-User (even though the player probably played under the OD&D rules which I do not have) and he would have had to accumulate around 34 500 000 XPs to get to the 237th level (considering that the 150 000 XP gap remains constant over the 36th level). This would amount to gaining a little more than an average of 1533 XPs/hour. By looking at the BD&D bestiary, this equates to slaying a small black dragon with spells, a thirteen-fourteen (damn emoticons ) HD elemental on its own plane or an average vampire per hour, non-stop. This guy is either extremely efficient and driven, his DM is spineless and awards way too much XP or the OD&D XPP is a lot faster than that of BD&D (maybe some old-schooler could answer to that...). Allow me to be sceptical...
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Inkpot wrote:
From Gullible Info:

FACT: The oldest continuously-played Dungeons & Dragons character is believed to be a 237th level magic-user named Kirin Blade. Tom Darcy started his character in 1979, and has played the game every weekend since then for an estimated total of 22,500 hours.

What could you possibly throw at this guy to challenge him?

The Codex of the Infinite Planes. Since he seems to be power hungry, being 237th level and all, he'll want to read the Codex. Eventually he'll fail his save, and the Codex will absorb him.
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Just have him challenge Waldorf to a duel... since Waldorf was what, 325th level? It'd be no contest.
(Please tell me I'm not the only Dragon reader who remembers who Waldorf was...)
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Jeffery St. Clair wrote:
Just have him challenge Waldorf to a duel... since Waldorf was what, 325th level? It'd be no contest.
(Please tell me I'm not the only Dragon reader who remembers who Waldorf was...)

Isn't he the dude one always has to find in pictures full of crowds of people? Wears a striped sweater?

"Where's Waldorf?"
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gideon_thorne wrote:
Isn't he the dude one always has to find in pictures full of crowds of people? Wears a striped sweater?

"Where's Waldorf?"

roflmao
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