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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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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2024 Player's Handbook
September 17, 2024
2024 Dungeon Master's Guide
November 12, 2024
2025 Monster ...
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We are not lawyers. Why do we allow law topics?
This is a site about Role-Playing Games. We are experts on Role-Playing Games. There is a sickening number of questions about law, that are only tangentially related to games, and they are being ...
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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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Pathfinder sources: aonprd vs d20pfsrd
2024 update: I know some effort to fix the most blatant errors on d20pfsrd is being made by volounteer editors. Someone already fixed the missing archetypes of the alchemist at least (they were ...
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If an answer to question A can be found in question B, should we close A as duplicate of B?
Related:
Non-duplicate question with answer in another question
Should/can we change the Duplicate notification?
Situation — there are two different questions Aq and Bq. Question Aq has a specific ...
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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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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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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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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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