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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 3821140" data-attributes="member: 1515">Actually, the RPGA used to do just this.  Until late 2002, they had a "table rating" system, in which players at an RPGA event rated the play of both their fellow players, and their GM.  You accumulated "points" based on your scores; which were suspiciously like "experience points", even having levels -- when they stopped doing this in late 2002, I was a 5th level player. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Certain levels had titles associated with them (Master, Grand Master, Paragon, etc.)Other than bragging rights (and a "die bump" cert that you got if you were the best player at your table, which was a one-time +1 or +2 add to a single d20 roll), about the only purpose that the rankings served was that there were certain tables at the big conventions that you could only play if you were sufficiently high-level.Even then, if you got a Master-level DM, it could be indicative of one of two things:1) The DM consistently got high scores from his tables, and / or2) The DM DMed a lot.As a player (or DM), you could check your scores on the RPGA web site, and get an understanding if you were rated well (or poorly) for particular games, but those scores weren't made available to the general public.(Parenthetically -- the reason that the RPGA used to do this was that, back in the day, the RPGA sort of viewed itself as "competitive" play, particularly in the days before the Living campaigns took over.  As the RPGA's charter evolved, they decided to de-emphasize that aspect of the experience, and removed the table voting.)</blockquote>

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