These three certainly deserve the Hat Of Permission Giving.

As one of the permanent lurkers, I'm not sure how much my opinion counts fore, but I think y'all would make great PGs.

Desdendelle and PoorCynic were the second and the third person who came to mind. If I had not been dragged away from this thread and returned only right now, I would certainly have nominated them – although I couldn’t have explained the reasons as good as others did here. I also thought about doctorlit, but somehow I felt that he shouldn’t be nominated.

Should I worry that these weird Empathic Powers make me a Gary Stu?

HG, supporting all nominations.

After all, I've brought this up to both you and Nesh for awhile as a percieved need. I'm far for having a new set of PGs around.

For what it's worth, I'm definitely for having new PGs who've been around and have an excellent grasp of the community these days; I've fallen kind of out of things just due to having left for well over a year and then being busy these days fighting for justice.

That said, I personally agree heavily with the choices of PoorCynic, Iximaz, and Desdendelle as our next Permission Givers.

...I, Skaer'morys the Silver, hereby nominate Lady Iximaz and PoorCynick as well! I choose the former for her spirit and bravery, as evidenced in our ongoing quest to train my newly acquired decadent proto-bird, Velociripper. And I choose the latter for his wonderful use of constructive criticism and analysis of technique, which has helped me bring to heel two other recent acquisitions - the flesh-eating pegasus, Rayner, and the demonic entity, E.V.L.

Getting back to seriousness, I'd also like to nominate doctorlit, but he's politely refused, so I'll also throw in Desdendelle for his help with my first mission and call it an answer.

That was only, like, 6 years ago. Had a different name back then, of course.

Anyway, I have been thinking that we needed to have this discussion. I know that I am not as active as I could be, for a variety of reasons (a major one being that Nesh has primary custody of our sole working computer).

I don't have any nominations to add, at the moment, but I will think about it.

-Phobos

She has proven herself time and time again, in both strength and heart. Her missions against the dread Marizu have brought much fortune and favor to these lands. She has conducted herself honorably in battle, and charitable at home. She has given much joy to the citizens of Plort over these many months, by sharing her wealth and wit with the people of Plort. Truly, is there any other more worthy of rising to Baron? Neigh, I think not.

Should the Barons find Lady Iximaz fit to stand amongst them, I shall pledge my sword to her service; to settle her lands, and defend her honor. And, naturally, slay Marizu.

I blame Real Life—I accepted a leadership role I shouldn't have, it's been a source of a lot of stress, and as a result I've been feeling fairly allergic to anything that resembles committees and small-group politics. The good news is that my term is up this spring and I am so outta there. {= D

I've been against starting this discussion at all for the above reason, but now that it's started... I'm not against the idea of new PGs. I don't know if we need them, but as others have pointed out, new blood and representation of newer generations of Boarders is probably a good idea.

To that end, I fully support the nomination of Iximaz, and I also nominate PoorCynic and doctorlit. They've both been around a good while, they know what's what, and they have shown themselves to be leaders in the community, IMO. (Sorry, hS, but I'm pretty sure we lead by example, if nothing else, what with PGs needing to be knowledgeable, trustworthy, active, good at what we do, etc.) In addition to writing great spin-offs, PC and doclit are some of the best reviewers we've got, PC has his excellent series of workshops, and doclit has done great work on the wiki and in preserving old PPC works for posterity. Plus they're just good guys, which is at least as important as all the rest put together. {= )

So there's that, if they accept and we go ahead with this.

~Neshomeh

After all, I think that since they handle, well, Permissions there is no such thing as too many of them.

Also because, well, lately all or nearly all Permission Requests have been handled by you, Nesh or Phobos as you say. So yeah, I think we can use more.

About who... I... urgh. Have no idea, sincerely. (And that's kinda embarassing since I qualify as an oldbye. Whoops.)

There’s a revolution at hand. Shall some Barons be overthrown? Shall we defend status quo with our lives? Will there be a civil war?

I don’t need a bloody revolution.

But if the Barons are willing to give some of their power and their territories to a new Baroness, or if we, the Knights and Civilians of Plort, can wrestle some land out of their hands without too much bloodshed, then I support the nomination of the Lady Iximaz.

Hieronymus the Hermit

Well, on the one hand, it might be nice to have some new blood. On the other, you guys have been PGers since the dawn of time, so everyone trusts your judgement. And I know you said it isn't a status thing, but you do make the decisions about who gets to contribute to our canon, which is kind of a big deal.

Like you said, we haven't had so many Permission Requests that you couldn't keep up, but what if there was a sudden influx in the future?

I'll tentatively say adding someone is a good idea, but... well, I'm not entirely sure who I'd like to nominate. Could I come back to that?