Timeline for Are rules questions that require a developer (official OR non-official) response ONLY valid for our stack?
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| Feb 4, 2018 at 3:56 | comment | added | CTWind | @NautArch Re: "2) There is literally nothing a stackizen can do to answer this other than send a tweet to the developers.": I'd agree that's the case in this situation. However, I think it's worth noting that in general for questions like this, people might not know what the channels are for developer updates/clarifications since the original launch of a product or might not know the entire history of what's come through said channels, and we're a pretty good place to find out about things in that vein. | |
| Feb 3, 2018 at 1:47 | vote | accept | NotArch | ||
| Feb 1, 2018 at 20:54 | comment | added | NotArch | @SevenSidedDie Thank you - I think ultimately that's where I'm hung up, too. Although how do we handle designer inputs on rules (not just lore)? Does it need to be official sources or do we have lighter requirements? | |
| Feb 1, 2018 at 20:50 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie Mod | @NautArch Your intuition that it might be currently two different questions is, I think, on-point. They got one answer that answered “how does this work” and objected; but the question is still asking “how does this work” and “have the developers said it works differently”. So it's unclear what kinds of answers are even on-topic to the question. I suspect the question is meant to ask “I can see it appears to work like X; have the developers said it actually works like Y?”, but that needs the asker to confirm. (Due to this kind of unclarity I've put it on hold.) | |
| Feb 1, 2018 at 19:19 | comment | added | NotArch | THe problem is two-fold: 1)They are looking for both official and unofficial responses. An unofficial response is not really a stack-answer ; and 2) There is literally nothing a stackizen can do to answer this other than send a tweet to the developers. I guess if that's okay, then that's okay - but it seems low-value to ask a question no one here can answer. I still think it's two separate questions (How does this work, and what is the designer intent), in which case the primary can be answered, and the secondary can be asked by OP to the devs (and then answered) or another stackizen could. | |
| Feb 1, 2018 at 19:16 | comment | added | Wibbs | And again I ask, what's the problem with that? This site is a repository for expert answers to questions. Quite a few answers are mirrors/copies/edited highlights of evidence from other sources. That's OK, because asking and answering the question on this site helps draw all that disparate expertise and evidence onto one, go-to site | |
| Feb 1, 2018 at 19:13 | comment | added | NotArch | In that all other instances of RAW that support the argument are of no value to the asker, mostly. For 5e, there are books, errata, etc. that can support an answer. Having access via Sage Advice with the developers is an added bonus, but comes with it's own issues. Requiring ONLY a twitter response from ANY developer (and not just the one marked as official response) seems like they don't want an 'official' answer, but just an answer that comes from the fingers of someone at Wizards (whether or not their response is considered official.) | |
| Feb 1, 2018 at 19:12 | history | edited | Wibbs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2018 at 19:08 | comment | added | Wibbs | A bunch of my answers to Savage Worlds questions are effectively ripped from the Savage Worlds official forums, and mainly taken up by a quote from the Brand Manager. That's the only source for RAW outside the printed books. How is this any different apart from the definition of what RAW means for a particular system? | |
| Feb 1, 2018 at 19:06 | comment | added | NotArch | But if that's the ONLY source that will be accepted, why does it need to be on the stack? It seems like that the only way it can be answered is if someone else (not on the site) answers it. I guess this differs from designer intent questions because it's including "what happens here" and "what is the intent". Maybe they should be two separate questions? | |
| Feb 1, 2018 at 19:04 | history | answered | Wibbs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |