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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Should there be a tag for death saves?
I just asked this question about death saves and noticed there is no tag for death saves.
It seems to me as though such a tag would be useful. It is an important concept in multiple versions of D&...
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How could I fix my question about the Deck of Many Things?
My question concerns this question on the main page: Deck of Many Things: How problematic is each card for a campaign?
It was closed for a mixture of being unclear, being too broad, and being opinion-...
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Why was a comment about etymology removed?
This question about the origin of the name Yan-C-Bin has so far attracted only one answer. That answer makes the claim that all of the names of the Princes of Elemental Evil were made up "...
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Should this stack ban ChatGPT?
Over at Meta Stack Exchange, the guidance to date is that each Stack Exchange network site needs to decide for itself whether to ban ChatGPT-generated posts. RPG SE Meta is the correct format for ...
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Workshopping Help: "Should I allow a Player to use a premade character?"
I have a question I want to ask and would like to run it by the community before I actually ask it so I can obtain feedback.
Here is my question:
Should I allow a Player to use a premade character?
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FAQ Maintenance 2023
Our FAQ has become quite cluttered and convoluted. There are many issues with it, but among the most pressing I currently see:
There are 3 questions about recommendation questions, which is a mess. ...
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Has site-wide quality drastically improved while our analytics are in freefall?
In our recent visual excerpt of a year in moderation, we see that community moderation actions have drastically declined. One explanation is that our site-wide quality improved drastically — ...
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How to ask effective questions?
I'm trying to work on posting at least one DnD related question each day and I'm finding it difficult to actually get questions that get decent responses from the community. My best question (Can the ...
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Thank you to the community
I'm 45 and table top RPGs have been a core part of my identity since I was 12, often the only way I had of socializing. Due to a variety of life circumstances, it has been about 2 years since I've ...
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Workshopping "What is the best way to bring a campaign to an end?"
I've recently posted the question What is the best way to bring a campaign to an end? on the Role-Playing Games Stack Exchange, but it was closed because it ended up seeming too broad or just phrased ...
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I tried to stay D&D question neutral last year, how did I do?
I made a claim in chat roughly a year ago:
I'm staying dnd-5e neutral this year, and I've just posted my first question, and made sure to ask a non-dnd-5e question :D1
And I'd like to reflect on how ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Workshopping Question about picking the right weapon
As I have talked about here in a bit more detail, I have always had an issue wrapping my head around certain core (and simple) concepts within D&D 5e. In this particular case, the issue pertains ...
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How can I share research data?
Ever since starting to build characters, I have struggled with trying to understand weapon damage and the merits of modifiers. After someone suggested that a 1d6 weapon with duelling hit stronger than ...
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Brackets in question titles
This question includes brackets in its title:
Do the relevant stats of a creature summoned via a "Summon [Creature Type]"-style spell change, if your stats change after you summoned it?
I ...
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