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36 questions linked to/from Can we affirm that RPG.SE embraces a plurality of playstyles?
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How is the community doing? [2018] [duplicate]
(Largely cribbed from the 2017 check-in)
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. About a year ago we did this ...
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What is our stance on "Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers"?
Stack Overflow has just been updated to no longer pin the accepted answer to the top of the answer list.
Now on Meta.SE, the staff are seeking our site-specific feedback on whether we'd want to do the ...
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Time to retire the [rules-as-written] tag?
We have recently seen some issues around site users being unclear on how to use the rules-as-written tag and some unpleasantness broke out on the topic. Sadly, this has been happening for more than ...
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What, exactly, is the RAW tag for?
As the title says.
I'm starting to think that there are a few different views of what "RAW" means here on RPG.SE. I think that it is time to sit down and pinpoint the "correct" way to use the ...
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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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The gremlin in our answers: "Fate is narrative" answers to mechanical Fate questions
It seems like there's a gremlin in the Fate answers. He bites without warning, no one is immune, and while he'd been quiet for some time, he's back now. And he's making it hard to get good answers, ...
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Is there any interest for a Discord server?
I've been thinking about this for a while.
What do you guys think about a Discord Server for our Stack? I mean, we do have the chat rooms already, but Discord would enable a few other ways of getting ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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What should we do about people downvoting to try and push subcommunities they don't like off this site?
I understand that people are in charge of their voting, and we generally avoid legislating voting in any way as it is fundamentally unenforceable. Nevertheless, the use of downvotes to explicitly ...
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How do we handle a desire to challenge the frame of a question?
Sometimes, someone asks a question that seems like it might suffer from the XY Problem (asking about your attempted solution instead of your actual problem) and you want to point that out. Or you ...
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Why do people use GM versus DM?
As I've been on SE, I noticed that many questioners and answerers use 'GM' to describe the person running the game as opposed to 'DM'.
I know that DM stands for Dungeon Master and that GM stands for ...
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What exactly is a playstyle?
So we agree that we embrace all styles of roleplay.
Recently I answered a question and made a remark about "good roleplaying" or "good roleplayers" being people that would play a role, seperating ...
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The [rules-as-written] tag - still useful or is it junk? [duplicate]
A brief history of the [rules-as-written] tag (though all the discussion is ~2 years old):
What, exactly, is the RAW tag for? (A good summary of what the tag's for and other meta Q's related to it)
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Why do people want to give answers that were not asked for?
I have noticed that people want to give answers and leave comments that the question is not asking for. This question, for example, has people immediately saying "don't" instead of just answering the ...
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Witty, clever & funny: let's collect the bounty's messages!
In the past, several bounties have been offered, both for making questions attract more answers and for rewarding already existent answers (which are the actual aims of bounties).
Beside the default ...
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