I've pretty much stayed out of the IGT/GOD stuff until recently because, well, I'm not there this year and it's nice to see other people work together to get this kind of thing sorted. Sadly, things seem to have become a bit fractious: tempers, uncharitable reading and misinterpretation. My hope is that this thread will get things on track. I'm just going on my involvement with IGTs of previous years, plus my involvement in getting games running at cons (experiences that many of us here share).

I'd like to start from first principles:

What's the IGT for?