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Ads test beginning December 3, 2024
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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Bastions or Strongholds?
Hi recently asked a few questions about the new Bastions mechanic in D&D 5e. These were tagged with bastions, and now have been re-edited to strongholds, which is a tag for this concept of a home ...
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D&D is not a physics simulation update
I have this question: Is there a citation for "D&D is not a physics simulation"?, with great answers, for D&D 5e (during the 2014 era).
We now have a fully official statement on it ...
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Should we burninate the [special-abilities] tag again?
Today, I discovered the special-abilities tag, which doesn't have any Tag Wiki entry and doesn't really seem like something that can be reasonably defined either. It's currently used on 14 questions.
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Umbrella Term/Tag for Generic Meta Currency (e.g. JB007 Hero Points, SWADE Bennies, FATE and Rogue Trader FP, EP Flex &c.)?
Clearly many games think alike, having a kind of transient points that can be gained and spent, with the main purpose usually being a meta (dissociative) way to influence events and dice rolls. But as ...
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D&D 5e 2024 Guidance FAQ
With the release of a new edition to the most popular tabletop RPG in the world, we can expect to encounter new users, new questions, and new challenges on the site. However, we've been here before ...
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How should I share the results of playtesting homebrew from a previous Homebrew Review question?
I appreciate the advice given in this answer to the question How can I ask a good homebrew review question?. The final recommendation, "Try playtesting, and share the results if you have," ...
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What do I do about a sockpuppet?
My second most recent question was voted to close by a person twice in quick succession, clearly using a sock-puppet account.
They then downvoted my most recent question twice with a sock-puppet ...
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Is this question about water genasi actually ambiguous?
I was surprised to see that this question: What exactly would destroy water do to a water genasi? has been closed for eleven hours as "needs details or clarity". There's a comment from a ...
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Guidance proposals for D&D 5e 2024
In this meta discussion we collected questions and concerns the community felt ought be addresed with some guidance ahead of the release of the new iteration of D&D. In this chatroom, we had some ...
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Is it acceptable to "improve" outdated answers by mixing rule changes and errata?
The issue I stumbled upon today is regarding the following Q&A : Can you combine Polearm Master with War Caster to cast Booming Blade as enemies approach?
Because of a rule change made later, the ...
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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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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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RPG main site—and only RPG main—in read-only mode for me?
I can access other Stack Exchange sites, and I can access here, obviously, and I can see other people active on RPG main, but for me, RPG is read-only, with links to Stack Status (which shows no ...
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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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Answer edits not viewed on home page
This question was written on May 22nd. I marked it as save-for-later because I wanted to come back to it when I had more time.
I wrote my answer yesterday (June 19th; as of this writing 22 hours ago)....
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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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Why does the vote count on the profile page differ from that on the votes page?
For example, here is my count on upvotes from the profile page:
However when I open the link that says "View all (number) votes",
this is what I get for Upvotes:
That is a difference of 99 ...
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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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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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Is it just me, or did the tags suddenly get bolded?
When I logged on to this site today, I noticed that the tags looked bold, like this:
Have they always been like this, is this a issue with the new update I just downloaded to my Chromebook, or did ...
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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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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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Why was my post asking for a review of homebrewed traits closed? (appeal from a new user trying to better understand stackexchange)
I have a question about my Role-playing Games Stack Exchange post: Please review these homebrewed regional traits
I was told to ask for help here so let's try this out:
I'm a new user here and I'm ...
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Are questions about understanding game concepts allowed, even if I am not currently facing a specific problem involving that concept?
Questions typically arise from problems you need to solve
If I understand correctly, the concept of Stackoverflow is something like: "I am facing a problem while programming, I already researched ...
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How do I make the tag info box go away on mobile without refreshing the page?
Sometimes when scrolling on my phone, I tap a tag and the info box appears:
Once it appears, I can’t get it to go away without refreshing the page. This is supremely annoying. How do I make it go ...
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Is it OK to post a question about an Sage Advice Column entry?
I find myself repeatedly referring to the Sage Advice Compendium (SAC) entry that defines what counts as magical; however, there is no way (that I know of) to directly point at that entry, the best I ...
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What should I do if I have a huge [homebrew-review] question that I need to break into smaller parts?
After asking Is this variant of the Armorer Artificer balanced compared to the existing subclass?, which offered a wide range of options to choose from, I was informed that it simply had too much ...
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Is it ok to ask questions about the balance of free content from DMsGuild?
I've found several subclasses, optional rules, and other content on Dungeon Master's Guild that I'd like to use in a game, all of which are Free or Pay What You Want. Is it OK to ask questions about ...
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Can the system let a serial voter know he or she shouldn't?
I've been observing the following voting pattern on some of my older posts:
A larger number of older posts is being upvoted once (+10)
A few days later, I get a message "Serial voting reversed&...
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Simulacrum retagging
We do have a separate tag for simulacrum, and as of this morning about 48 questions were tagged with it. I did check, because I was asking a question about the origin of the spell, which an inquiry of ...
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Are lore questions on games that have a TTRPG attached to them on-topic? [duplicate]
Especially in modern times,most popular series appear to get a TTRPG attached to them. Examples include Dishonored, A Song Of Ice and Fire, Warcraft. Are lore questions regarding these games ...
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Is there a better way to ask questions as a player?
I've recently posted a couple of questions that I think are both not entirely obvious or clear cut rules questions, and that as far as I could tell were also no dupes.
Can you cast a Wall of Force ...
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Evolution of Stack (Exchange) leadership
If you're a regular reader of RPG meta, this post over on Meta.SE might interest/concern you:
Changing how community leadership works on Stack Exchange: a proposal and rough timeline
I post this just ...
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I need 50 reputation to post a comment, how can I gain reputation without commenting?
Honestly I think the title says it all, but I'm happy to elaborate where needed.
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Varying limit of votes per day
The help center states:
You can vote on posts 30 times per UTC day, plus 10 more times on questions only.
However I find that to not be true. The other day, I did get a message banner that I have ...
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Where did the "this question will be eligible for bounty in X hours" button go?
I do not know if it is a bug, but I seem to remember a few months back there was some text saying "this question will be eligible for bounty in X hours", but now I do not see it.
Why is it ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Should we turn off the HNQ feed on our main chat room?
Chat activity is pretty low these days. Because of this, the majority of the posts seen in our main chat room are from the HNQ bot. One user pointed out that ignoring that bot makes the chat look much ...
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Is there a way to bounty award a question?
If I would like to reward a question with a bounty award, not an answer to the question, is there a way to do so?
If there is not, is it acceptable to gift reputation to a user for their question via ...
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What should be done if a game term being asked about is a slur?
I recently asked this question about Exalted Second edition and while I found the answer I found out that the term 'Half-caste' used in the game was also a slur. (I do apologize for not knowing it ...
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What should I do if I have a downvoted question with upvoted answers?
I posted this question, and it keeps getting downvoted. However, the system won't let me delete it. What should I do about this? Should I vote to close it?
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Do we want a banner/help page about AI policy?
Per a previous discussion, “generative AI” is banned on this site.
Per a recent site-wide announcement, we can request a banner in the answer box stating this policy, and linking to a new Help page ...
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How to ask for loopholes/hacks/edge cases or other ways to make things work?
BACKGROUND: I'm a buildmaker. I'm RAW RPG gamer, following the philosophy of "GM has no say when it comes to rules", and I enforce this both as a GM and as a player. I love inventing things ...
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Reconciling how we treated two questions asking for DMing advice
Three days ago new user Billy Lane asked How do I become a great gm?, with the full text of their question reading:
I’ve played D&D on Discord now for a year, and I used to play D&D way-way ...
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Why can't I see edit history?
I just looked at this question (Moving a Gargantuan Object) and either am going mad because a few people have seen it talk about morkoths and towers, but it no longer says that and I can't see an edit ...
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