Operation: Power Level Gary

Mark CMG · May 18, 2011

Operation: Power Level Gary

Our continuing mission: To seek out old posts, to explore clever phrasing for XP gifts, to boldly game as no one as gamed before . . !

Scott DeWar · May 19, 2011

another point for gary!

Dice4Hire · May 19, 2011

Gave a few more today.

UP to about 30 now, I think.

Jemal · May 21, 2011

While I plan on giving to Gary when the opportunity arises, I must agree with Rel, withholding from people who deserve it is the exact opposite of what the XP system is for.

FoxWander · May 21, 2011

Jemal said:
While I plan on giving to Gary when the opportunity arises, I must agree with Rel, withholding from people who deserve it is the exact opposite of what the XP system is for.

That is correct but, just to play devil's advocate here (although I do have a relevant point), aren't the top 4 above Gary already well aware of their awesomeness that got them there? They are firmly entrenched at the top, and deservedly so but... are there any more deserving of the top spot than The Man himself? Would the witty comments and great photoshops even matter without the game that inspired them?

When a newbie first comes to the board and discovers the xp system- and they look at the rankings, they probably think "Who the hell is THAT guy at the top?" Shouldn't their next thought be "Holy crap! That's Gary Gygax! Cool!"- instead of "What the heck is a weem?"

No offense to weem of course, he's great (as are all the Top 4) but he's no Gary Gygax.

Ultimately- yes, give xp where xp is due- that's what it's for. But for the Top 4, they know they're the top, and they earned their spot there, but... before you click that xp button you might legitimately ask, should they really be higher than Gary?

nedjer · May 21, 2011

FoxWander said:
That is correct but, just to play devil's advocate here (although I do have a relevant point), aren't the top 4 above Gary already well aware of their awesomeness that got them there? They are firmly entrenched at the top, and deservedly so but... are there any more deserving of the top spot than The Man himself? Would the witty comments and great photoshops even matter without the game that inspired them?

When a newbie first comes to the board and discovers the xp system- and they look at the rankings, they probably think "Who the hell is THAT guy at the top?" Shouldn't their next thought be "Holy crap! That's Gary Gygax! Cool!"- instead of "What the heck is a weem?" No offense to weem of course, he's great (as are all the Top 4) but he's no Gary Gygax.

Ultimately- yes, give xp where xp is due- that's what it's for. But for the Top 4, they know they're the top, and they earned their spot there, but... before you click that xp button you might legitimately ask, should they really be higher than Gary?

Oh dear! After getting told off for talking about religion and for beating up on a fellow poster, I should probably just lie low for a while. On the other hand, why not stand beside the wall with all the bullet holes in it and wrap a scarf round my head.

Never met GG, but I always thought he was a level playing field kind of guy. So I'm guessing he'd have preferred to roll 3D6 and take what came his way, instead of going for a dice pool?

Seperately, GG's contribution to RPGs as a whole was and is obviously beyond immense, but most of his 'work' wasn't done on ENWorld. Weem's contribution to a particular part/ area of roleplaying surely needn't either be seen as challenging GG's overall contribution nor be required to be subordinate to GG's ENWorld contribution?

I'll run away and hide now :angel:

Mark CMG · May 21, 2011

FoxWander said:
give xp where xp is due

Yup. Let's all just agree that this is the proper approach and allow Scott DeWar's unfortunate suggestion and subsequent acknowledgement the correction to stand. There's no real need for further bad feelings to come from it. Personally, I'll be continuing to XP Gary's former EN World interface and anyone else who I feel helps EN World become or continue to be a great site. It's all good.

Mark CMG · May 21, 2011

http://www.enworld.org/forum/4047407-post1570.html

Gary speaks briefly to the state of commoner knowledge.

Scott DeWar · May 22, 2011

Scott DeWar said:
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 said:
So a deciGax is 100 xp? Or would that be a deciPlado?

economixp update:
A Deciweem has increased to 148.5 up .7 from last report

a Decitraz is now 133.5 up by 2.6

and a deci gax is now 102.4 up by 2.4 since the last report.

This has been a DeWar inter web production.