Operation: Power Level Gary

[Scott DeWar]

must spread the apple butter .. .. .. ..

 

[Dice4Hire]

Top five is pretty good.

 

[FoxWander]

Finally spread enough to rep Gary again. But not on that first post I found- I put it on a post that was a response to me. Not that there's anything special about it of course, Gary "talked" to a lot of people here. But that post really drove home how special and awesome this site and the people that come here are. The idea that a random post about an old npc's stats (go here to stand in awe of Obmi the uber-dwarf's stats) could draw a response from a creator of the game itself (!) was really cool. It really shows something about the nature of this hobby that the man who created it still wanted to talk about random D&D nonsense with his fellow gamers throughout his whole life.

Thanks Gary!

 

[SPECTRE666]

Hit my quota for the day!

For Gary!

 

[Scott DeWar]

so two mostly untouched posts would be:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/2921339-post49.html

and

http://www.enworld.org/forum/3320-post4.html

alright!

 

[Scott DeWar]

for the record, a deciweem has been hit by inflation and is now 147.8 xp.

A decitraz is 130.9 Xp. The Col. has reched the 1k Xp point and continues as he is at 1014 at the time of this post.

 

[Relique du Madde]

So a deciGax is 100 xp? Or would that be a deciPlado?

 

[Rel]

fPlease becareful to discontinue giving to the peeps with more xp the the col for that is counter productive.

I gotta say that this concept really bothers me.

Let me be clear that I'm not speaking as a moderator here, but as a long standing member of the site. I'm eternally grateful that Gary chose to post here, that he answered my posts and those of others, and that I got the chance to game with him. To say that I hold him in high esteem would be an understatement. He was one of my childhood heroes and it was a childhood dream of mine to game with him.

But this has gone beyond simply honoring him and way over into gaming the XP system to force that honor as quickly as possible. Now it's being proposed that people who are actively contributing to the site not be given XP because it is pushing the bar higher? Far be it from me to speak for him, but I don't think Gary would approve of that sort of thinking.

I certainly know that when I get XP (and I've gotten quite a lot of it lately) that says basically "just spreading it around so I can give more to Gary" then I feel like we've lost sight of what this system is supposed to represent. Again, I don't speak as a moderator when I say this but I'd really prefer if people would continue to look for good posts to give rep to and periodically revisit this thread and Gary's posts to push him ever forward. And please only give XP to my posts when you think I've posted something that contributes to the site in some fashion. Otherwise I think that we're simply propelling Gary to the top of a chart that is ultimately meaningless due to this kind of inflation and gamesmanship.

 

[Scott DeWar]

I have stepped over a line- I Acknowledge this.i Ihave taken steps to reverse this. Thank you for calling me on this.

 

[SPECTRE666]

Hit my quota for the day!