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Reconciling how we treated two questions asking for DMing advice
Three days ago new user Billy Lane asked How do I become a great gm?, with the full text of their question reading:
I’ve played D&D on Discord now for a year, and I used to play D&D way-way ...
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Are questions about the viability of a campaign or mission's premise acceptable?
I'm currently in the early stages of planning a campaign where my current idea is that the PCs will be travelling over a large continent, and the primary thing keeping them together is a curse that ...
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Should this question be considered "idea generation" and closed?
This question apparently doesn't have a single correct answer: What are some monsters that could trap NPCs for a long time without killing them?
On the other hand, it is pretty narrow for being "...
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How can I better formulate this question about Easter Eggs in 5e adventures to make it stackable?
My question here is about What popular culture Easter Eggs exist in published adventures?
There was a lot of discussion in the comments already, with the overall gist that the question is not hopeless ...
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How should we handle questions with a straightforward answer that only requires basic research?
I've seen this problem many times on this site, but the most recent question, which also incentivized me to write this meta post, is Do effects that activate on a critical hit still activate when the ...
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We should talk about the word "should"
Occasionally a question gets asked that is approximately of the form:
I have this problem, what should I do?
or
I have this problem, should I do X?
These are then closed as opinion based, ...
Someone_EvilMod
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Is this question about a chaotic evil character in a heroic party too opinion-based, or is it experience-based?
I recently asked What challenges arise from playing a Chaotic Evil character in a heroic party? which has been voted to be closed 4 times as of this writing for being primarily opinion based. However, ...
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Should this dice question be open or closed?
This meta is about the mainsite question How I can I roll a number of non-digital dice to get a random number between 1 and 150?
It was closed by five users,
then reopened by five other users. (Many ...
nitsua60Mod
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When do we close a question for drawing opinion-based answers and how can we try to get ahead of such closures?
I'm not talking about opinion-based questions, but the flipside of when a question could generate good subjective answers, but doesn't.
This question does have several parts that are tied together:
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How do we handle changing the close reason on a question?
How should we handle if a question has been edited and the current reason for its closure no longer holds, but it is now close-worthy for another reason? For example if it was closed as a duplicate, ...
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Highly-downvoted duplicate questions
I've noticed that this recent question is probably a duplicate of this question. However, as a recent recipient of the 5e gold badge, I'm hesitant to unilaterally close it as a duplicate. I have the ...
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Does "Ask the DM / GM" equate to "Primarily opinion based?"
I've noticed that in some cases people vote to close as Primarily Opinion Based when they think the only possible answer is "Up to the DM". There's a slight twist in this community where it'...
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Should Bad Answer Attraction be a Custom Close Reason?
Writing this has convinced me 'is drawing too many bad answers that aren't getting dealt with properly' is a close reason we really should add to our custom close reason list. Thoughts?
I remember ...
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Should questions be closed because there are speculative answers?
Why is the word "Rötschreck" spelled with an Umlaut? was temporarily closed with the reason that it is 'drawing primarily speculation/opinion' (emphasis mine).
I'd like to point out ...
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Close Reason for "Homebrew this for me" questions
I've recently noticed a couple questions that seemed like "make me some suggestions for this homebrew idea I had". I voted to close both as an off-topic Shopping/Recommendation request, as to me they ...
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