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39 questions linked to/from Are game recommendation questions on topic? [2011]
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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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Is "Game for X" subjectivity bait and can it be helped? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are game recommendation questions on topic?
There's a specific kind of question that I would like to see get a little guidance here, because I see it abused so badly on forums....
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Isn't the tag game-recommendation purely subjective? [duplicate]
I'm a new user and I have been taking time to read through some rules, set up my account, and just generally get a feel for the sight(I like it a lot btw) So I just got trough reading the Good ...
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Is something wrong?
Before you consider answering or voting, please read the whole question.
As the second of three questions mentioned in this meta, I wish to ask if something is wrong. The meta question was inspired ...
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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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Community self-evaluation: How are we doing with game recommendations?
Our game recommendation guidelines are four years old this month. It's worth taking some time to reflect and review as a community how well they are working.
What works well? What doesn't? Have they ...
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What's so problematic about a recommendation question having potentially hundreds of answers, anyway?
This Q&A is out of date - game-recs are now off topic, see Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic, Revisited
We've recently had a couple of recommendation questions appear with requirements ...
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Permanent banner for game-recommendation tag
On every question (correctly) tagged with game-recommendation, somebody comes along and leaves a comment reminding answer's how to address the question properly. To make this more permanent than the ...
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Why is one +21 question On Hold when a similar question is ok with +53 votes?
For what reasoning was this question (What to do about a player who takes risks and dies (without consequence)?) with 21 upvotes and no downvotes On Hold as opinion based and most of the (IMO more ...
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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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Voting Feedback totally screwed up compared to other SE sites
When I visit SO or Workplace.SE, I see the voting as a feedback what to improve. I can see that when I put work into my post and have knowledge on the subject I get positive votes, when I make ...
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Are tool recommendation questions on topic?
Recommendations for games and published adventures are now off topic due to our policy on them being rescinded. The general agreement was that we did have functioning rules for them, but enough users ...
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Tool recommendations aren't off topic yet, Or: Let the community actually decide on that first, because we didn't [duplicate]
A few hours ago, a tool-recommendation question was closed as off topic with the close reason we're now applying to game recommendation questions: Way to manage world factions and events. Now I see ...
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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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Two Answers - One Deleted - What's the difference?
My answer to this question was deleted. Another answer, similar to mine (no actual experience w/ Harry Potter setting, experience w/ campaign similar to the one described), remains.
What's the ...
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