The Challenge of High Level Play

We’re back to levels this week in Legends and Lore as Monte looks at high level play. There are shades of BECMI all over this post. First off a bit of history, since BECMI is a term I only learned in the past few years. BECMI is short for Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, Immortal: the series of box sets released from 1983 to 1986 breaking down Dungeons & Dragons (as opposed to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons) into level bands of play. Basic featured levels 1-3, Expert was 4-14, Companion had 15-25, Master was 26-36, and Immortal was “beyond levels.” Each one of these games had not only different levels of play but...