Its been a few years since last I graced this board.
How active is it, and is anyone around from way back when?
Depending on interest, I'd like to restart up some of the gauntlets ... any takers?
Gauntlets? What gauntlets do you speak of?
Given the decline in population, perhaps we are speaking of some cursed item, like a gauntlet of hunger that causes the wearer to need food, badly? 
Or maybe everyone's still here, but most of them are lost within the page formatting. For all we know, that excess white space could be someone's post.
Slagger_the_Chuul wrote:
What we used to do for fun, other than debating some topics which I won't name, was to participate in gauntlets, where we would test our toons in a series of escalating CRs to test viability as well as survivabiliy.
We'd post some arbitrary rules and argue over how or why the arbitrary rules were pro or anti the other camp. Nothing ever got solved, but it was fun showcasing off your toons abilities and comparing to other builds. One side effect was that we usually learned some new optimization technique. Oh, and charges of meta gaming would fly rampant as well as railing at the ineptitude of customer service to answer the simplest questions.
One of the gauntlets that still exists in archives, was a series of cr 5-7 encounters where we would take our solo toon and try to beat them. I tried to find the other three, which were you taking your toon from 1-20 and defeating iconic monsters or groups of monsters. The key thing though, was not being able to change your toon between encounters of the same CR. That should adaptability and lack of meta gaming.
If your interested, I can recreate these from my notes. Would it be best here, or the other place?
The other place? Do you mean minmaxboards or a place other than that?
Yes,
http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=11553.0