Timeline for What qualifies as guessing on a system?
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| Mar 18, 2019 at 23:30 | comment | added | linksassin Mod | I like the majority of this, and it is likely experienced users could apply this well. However SSD's comment highlights an important point. I also don't like the message: "You are confident enough in your own breadth of RPG knowledge to be sure that the question isn't about a system you've never heard of." That is a dangerous message to send. There are thousands of RPGs and the over-confident users are the ones most likely to cause an issue in this area. | |
| Mar 10, 2019 at 7:00 | comment | added | Tim C | From that debate, it seems like the strongest arguments in favor of not guessing is that it teaches the asker to tag their questions better in the future. In that case, I still disagree. It doesn't seem consistent with our other practices. If I asked a question about how to breadcrumb traps when narrating,,but forgot the [gm-techniques] tag, someone would edit it in and no one would think twice about it. If someone asked me in a comment if I was asking about gm techniques and suggested that I add the tag if I was, I would learn "don't edit," as much as "tag your questions." | |
| Mar 10, 2019 at 4:10 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie Mod | In theory I agree with this—it matches my personal stance. In practice though I notice that since the community has gone zero-tolerance for any kind of guessing, even the harmless kind described here, I’ve also noticed a dramatic drop in the kind of bad guessing we used to suffer from (and suffer from arguments about). So though I think it’s more strict than theoretically necessary, in practice zero guessing appears to have significant benefits that I appreciate a lot, for only a small drawback of some ridiculous cases that are quickly resolved by the author responding. | |
| Mar 10, 2019 at 1:08 | comment | added | doppelgreener Mod | You may be interested in seeing the debate on this meta: Revisiting our “never guess the game system” policy | |
| Mar 9, 2019 at 23:39 | history | answered | Tim C | CC BY-SA 4.0 |