Quote Originally Posted by Craft (Cheese) View Post
It's probably just because I haven't played AD&D at all but when people talk about that aspect it always sounds like they're trying to say combat isn't supposed to happen *at all* after 9th level.
Nah ... my long-running 2e character's most numerous and memorable battles were mostly in defending his castle throughout his teen levels. Sprinkle in a dash of inter-henchmen politics and the occasional world-threatening quest hook that made him leave the castle in those henchmens' hands, and voila ...