i thank the "hump" startes at level 7 to 10, from what ive known that is about the hardest levels tell epics where you get about 1 exp from most anything. My highest level char is 11, near 12, ive been on layo sence... well idk.. lets see when i first subbmited my first char *looks in search page for Grombrindal * hum... 1/3/05, thought i had been here longer... oh well anyway, Just stick with one char if you really want to devlode him, i cant really play more then one char at a time so most of my chars are retired adn put into storage to maby be brought out again when i see fit. When i first started my char made friends with 2 chars that are near epic today, Bruenor, who was banned *crys a little* and Ahnder, So id say it takes about.. 8 months from them to get to there level 20 or whatever they are.. so epic is id say.... 10 months or so, woh... i have a long way to go lol.. ANYWAY point being just stick with it and youll get there, you dont have to be high level to RP, and you dont have to have a dm to run your own little quest, just make somthing up and get a few guys to go with it. Say a kobald stole your staff and ran into the sielwoods and you need help retirving it, im shure you can get others to join you, and im shure you can thank of more creative storys then that as well. yea well.. okay im done, need to go to bed now.. NIGHT