Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Is a question about the balance of an entirely new class answerable on this site?
I found a homebrew Summoner class on DMsGuild that looks balanced, as well as fun to play. However, I'm not sure whether entire are appropriate for this site, although I've seen several different ...
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Why was my post asking for a review of homebrewed traits closed? (appeal from a new user trying to better understand stackexchange)
I have a question about my Role-playing Games Stack Exchange post: Please review these homebrewed regional traits
I was told to ask for help here so let's try this out:
I'm a new user here and I'm ...
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Are questions about understanding game concepts allowed, even if I am not currently facing a specific problem involving that concept?
Questions typically arise from problems you need to solve
If I understand correctly, the concept of Stackoverflow is something like: "I am facing a problem while programming, I already researched ...
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Is it OK to post a question about an Sage Advice Column entry?
I find myself repeatedly referring to the Sage Advice Compendium (SAC) entry that defines what counts as magical; however, there is no way (that I know of) to directly point at that entry, the best I ...
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What should I do if I have a huge [homebrew-review] question that I need to break into smaller parts?
After asking Is this variant of the Armorer Artificer balanced compared to the existing subclass?, which offered a wide range of options to choose from, I was informed that it simply had too much ...
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