Where does the phrase "xp is a river" come from?

[137beth]

I've heard that phrase on these forums a fair bit, and I understand what it is suppose to mean (if you spend xp crafting or on spells, or lose some due to level loss from dieing, you can catch up fairly quickly due to lower level characters gaining more xp from the same encounters). But...where did it start? Was it like Stormwind/Oberoni/Guy at the Gym where someone made a thread dedicated to it, and henceforth that was the phrase everybody used? Does it show up on one of the books? Or did it just sort of gradually come into use on the forums?

[Irk]

I googled "xp is a river". First result: Experience is a River (http://community.wizards.com/forum/previous-editions-character-optimization/threads/1077406) from the Wizards D&D forum. Never seen that, I'm gonna add it to the timeline.

[Snowbluff]

I googled "xp is a river". First result: Experience is a River (http://community.wizards.com/forum/previous-editions-character-optimization/threads/1077406) from the Wizards D&D forum. Never seen that, I'm gonna add it to the timeline.

I feel silly for assuming it was already there. Sorry. :smalltongue:

[Irk]

I feel silly for assuming it was already there. Sorry. :smalltongue:

It's all good. I'm newer than many of you, so it's likely that ya'll know of things that I haven't even heard of, so feel free to suggest anything that comes to mind.