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How is the Community doing? [2024]
Better than late than never, and before it completely escapes my mind.
We, the elected moderators, wanted to take a minute to check in and see how the community feels like things are going on the site....
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D&D 5e 2024 Working Group and Question Collection
The new core books for D&D 5e are to be released in the coming months:
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Release Date
2024 Player's Handbook
September 17, 2024
2024 Dungeon Master's Guide
November 12, 2024
2025 Monster ...
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Should we add a CHAINMAIL tag?
CHAINMAIL was a set of wargaming tabletop rules, that contributed to the creation of our hobby of RPGs, by initially providing a "Fantasy Supplement" that allowed including creatures like ...
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How do we manage a revised 5th edition?
My limited understanding is that the D&D 2024 PHB is still 5th edition, just a revised version. And yet, many of the core rules will be different. For question-writers moving forward, how should ...
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Retroactively ensuring a question is a duplicate, good practice? [duplicate]
Is it above board to edit another persons question extensively, lets say by adding 755 characters to it - to ensure that another recently posted similar question which otherwise would not be ...
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RPG main site—and only RPG main—in read-only mode for me?
I can access other Stack Exchange sites, and I can access here, obviously, and I can see other people active on RPG main, but for me, RPG is read-only, with links to Stack Status (which shows no ...
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Should we use the 'Shove' tag?
Looking through the list of newly created tags there is a shove tag created for this question. that isn't used anywhere else. Should we keep this tag and tag all questions about shoving with it or is ...
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Answer edits not viewed on home page
This question was written on May 22nd. I marked it as save-for-later because I wanted to come back to it when I had more time.
I wrote my answer yesterday (June 19th; as of this writing 22 hours ago)....
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What are the most asked-about spells in D&D 5e?
This is just curiosity, triggered by a comment by @Kirt. I think it may not quite qualify for the main site, so I hope it is fine to post it here.
The original question was about understanding which ...
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Why does the vote count on the profile page differ from that on the votes page?
For example, here is my count on upvotes from the profile page:
However when I open the link that says "View all (number) votes",
this is what I get for Upvotes:
That is a difference of 99 ...
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Do attempts to balance an ability by altering its mechanics fall under the umbrella of homebrew or house-rules?
To clarify. I was thinking of modifying the 'World in Miniature' feat from spheres of power in order to make it more relevant at higher levels and ask whether it would break the balance but I was ...
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Why does it require reputation to upvote comments and answers?
I guess it could help with stopping bots from bombing comments with upvotes and such, but it's the only platform I've ever seen that behaves like this.
I created an account a while ago to show ...
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Is it just me, or did the tags suddenly get bolded?
When I logged on to this site today, I noticed that the tags looked bold, like this:
Have they always been like this, is this a issue with the new update I just downloaded to my Chromebook, or did ...
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When should code tags be used for dice syntax?
Recently I noticed this edit. Here is an example section:
using a single mathematical operation is 4*(min(d4, 3)) - 8, or in anydice terms ...
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What should I do if I find an answer that is completely wrong?
In several different cases, I've encountered answers that were just... wrong. However, I don't know how to respond to this. Recently, I flagged a wrong answer, and it was declined and I was told not ...