Going from 1 to 18-20 over a single campaign that will probably last 6-8 weeks Faerun time? Most adventurers don't reach level 15+ over an entire lifetime.
I think 1-11 is already stretching it. I would save 12-20 for a possible BG4.
I will always prefer solid logic in the game world over a player's need to get to max level and basically just get everything. High level characters need to remain rare and high level PCs also require very specific content. When they get powerful enough to threaten entire kingdoms and such. I don't ever want to see level 13 city guards or other nonsense like that.
Agreed. I'm not sure whether your comment about preferring logic over getting to a max level was in response to the final sentence in my post immediately above but, just in case my point wasn't clear, this was about seeing this as a (minor) benefit of a level cap, rather than arguing for Larian implementing the maximum number of levels. I'm perfectly okay with a level cap of 10, though if there *isn't* going to be a BG4, or expansions to BG3, (and I hope there are both) then level 12 might be more satisfying given what people have said about the way levels work in 5e.
