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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Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic? [2015]
Game recommendation questions are sadly NOT on topic here on RPG.SE.
This means the following kinds of questions are off topic:
I want to play (details) kind of game/story. What game should I use to ...
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Are game recommendation questions on topic? [2011] [duplicate]
This Q&A is out of date - see the new answer (no) in Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic, Revisited
Many Stack Exchange sites, like the similar gaming.SE, do not allow game recommendation ...
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How do we handle a desire to challenge the frame of a question?
Sometimes, someone asks a question that seems like it might suffer from the XY Problem (asking about your attempted solution instead of your actual problem) and you want to point that out. Or you ...
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Why are site comments being deleted?
Some site users have noticed old comments being deleted. This is correct - site comments are meant to be a mostly temporary means of improving questions and answers. Here's an explanation of the ...
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Can we affirm that RPG.SE embraces a plurality of playstyles?
I've recently had the dubious pleasure to have been told both that the high visibility of RAW-centric optimising online is an illusion and nobody actually plays that way in a real game, and that old-...
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Are questions about rule intent on topic? [2018] [duplicate]
A reasonably common type of question on RPG.SE is "Why does this rule exist" or "why is a rule this way?"
These questions come in several flavors, which are not mutually exclusive:
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Are campaign research questions on topic? [2012]
There is a category of questions on this site that seriously pollutes our scope. Taking these questions to their logical maximum (which I see us continually approaching) everything under the sun has ...
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What to do when an edit guesses the system being used rather than waiting for the querent to clarify?
Note: As of September 3rd, 2021, this policy has been removed
Following the results of Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy this policy is no longer in effect. New guidance pending.
When the ...
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If an answer to question A can be found in question B, should we close A as duplicate of B?
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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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Re-revisiting the "don't guess the system" policy [duplicate]
Note: As of September 3rd, 2021, this policy has been removed
Following the results of Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy this policy is no longer in effect. New guidance pending.
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How to deal with questions that just don't understand the scope of the RPG landscape?
We've had several questions lately that we've been closing. What point-buy systems of magic (like psionics in 3e D&D) are there? , https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/14120/what-are-the-main-...
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How do we ask and answer subjective questions?
On RPG.SE, we deal with a fair number of questions that don't have a strict, objectively correct answer. Some game rules questions do, but we also have a good number of questions about how to run a ...
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Are character build or optimization questions on topic?
We attract some character build/optimization questions that are very vague - like this newer ones.
How can I add more attack to my Wood Bond Oracle?
A class like the "Action Survivor" ...
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Is homebrew an acceptable answer to a question?
Perhaps it's just the game designer in me, but for many of the questions asked here I almost automatically start thinking of homebrew solutions to whatever problem the asker is having. Would providing ...
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Should I be requesting people answer the question independently?
For a while now, we've had answers like these ones which fail to really answer the question on their own, but just add some extra information building on other pre-existing answers. They often even ...
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