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Why was this answer to the question “Can a player choose to fail a spell's ability check contest?” deleted?

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Why do I need to specify my game system, and how do I best do it?

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FAQ Proposal Index for Role-playing Games Stack Exchange

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FAQ Index for Role-playing Games Stack Exchange

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A question has some facts majorly wrong: should I be correcting them in comments or an answer?

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Are questions about rule intent on topic?

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Is a question that ends up only having 'designer reason' answers off-topic even if designer reasons aren't specifically what the asker is seeking out?

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Main help center page: Question collection and voting

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A site user recently unprotected virtually all of our protected questions. Is that okay?

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How should question protection be used on RPG.SE?

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Can I get some examples of users assuming a question is asking about D&D 5e when it's explicitly tagged as being for another system/edition?

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Should this question about “the Wildemount Chronugy subclass ability chronal shift” be tagged as D&D 5e without OP specifying it?

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Re-revisiting the “don't guess the system” policy

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Is '5e' a clear enough statement of game system by a question asker?

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What to do when an edit guesses the system being used rather than waiting for the querent to clarify?

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Does the community agree with the part of the “never guess” policy regarding asking meta first? [closed]

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How long should one wait before reposting a question that was closed per “don't guess the system”?

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How has RPG.se used protection? (crunching the numbers on spam and protection)

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What are the criteria for a comment being auto-deleted when you flag it as “no longer needed”?

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Purveyors of fine cheese!

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Should this question on bludgeoning damage attacks with other stat scores be closed?

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Why was this question that has a lot of community disagreement reopened without community discussion?

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Was my edit to this answer on a Q&A about Spell Sniper an edit too far?

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Are answers that include designer reasons on-topic and allowed on this site?

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What are the community standards regarding publishers answering questions about their products?

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Is a question asking about a specific list on topic or not?

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Establishing robust guidelines for protection/unprotection [duplicate]

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Should we reprotect the 700 or so questions that were unprotected in the last few weeks?

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So there's this space on the main help center page. Should we put something on it?

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Can these 3 locked questions be unprotected?

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Why was my question closed as too broad, unclear, or opinion-based?

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Question closure: Why does a round last 6 seconds?

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I got several good answers and a best answer, so I'm good - but should I put work into getting my closed question reopened?

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MathJax guide for RPG.SE: How to format pretty tables and equations?

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Is a question asking for a resource list of places to find developer commentary on the construction of D&D 5e's rules on-topic and wanted?

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What to do if seeking the answer to an existing question that's been closed because the system wasn't specified?

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Would these official commentary questions be on-topic (and good questions)?

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Why does inline math require \ before $?

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MathJax (LaTeX equations) for RPG.SE and Statistics Posts

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How can we use bold/italics inside MathJax tables?

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MathJax (\$\LaTeX\$ in posts) is live!

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Getting a straight answer from questions filled with frame challenges

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Does the answer need to be upvoted within 12 hours to qualify for the Illiminator badge?

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Should closed questions be edited without fixing the question?

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Why shouldn't I edit a question that has been closed? [duplicate]

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We have CommonMark

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Should we separate the [the-dark-eye] tag into multiple tags for multiple versions of the game?

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Are these “history-of-gaming” questions designer-reasons?

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