Linked Questions
18 questions linked to/from Community self-evaluation: How are we doing with game recommendations?
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Are "is this balanced" questions on-topic?
Before I start: I thought about the matter when reading this answer to the How is the community doing? [2018] post, which claims a larger percentage of negative reactions towards homebrew questions ...
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How do we save designer reasoning questions? [duplicate]
I think we have a bit of a problem with designer reason questions on the site.
A little history: designer-reasons questions were our attempt to save "what is this rule for" questions. Those were ...
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When answering a product/content identification, please explain *why* you think you've found the right thing
This was prompted by Mid-to-late 1970's Space Based RPG: what was it?, a question I've put on hold briefly so we can assess clean-up. The question needs some refinement (and this question will be ...
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Feedback on healing our community [closed]
This was originally a response to How is the community doing?, but has been moved to its own question on request.
The community’s situation is improving, but acknowledgements & commitments need ...
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Are [online-resources] on-topic?
I just noticed online-resources today, which tag-wiki starts:
About finding resources online.
To me this immediately screams "off-topic, recommendation."
Looking at the 44 questions tagged with ...
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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Recommendations for games and published adventures are now off topic due to our policy on them being rescinded.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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Policy Proposal: Allow Tool-Recommendation Questions [duplicate]
[Headnote: in a few places I think linked examples would be nice, but I can neither think of nor find good ones. These are indicated by a "()" after a phrase. Please feel free to plug one in if you ...
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Tool Recommendations Should Be Allowed [duplicate]
Our game-rec discussion that ended in game-recs being banned focused specifically on game-system recommendation questions (i.e. those tagged game-rec) for the meta-statistics used to support banning. ...
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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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The policy change regarding game-rec questions needs review
A recent meta post about the efficacy of game-rec questions, which had the initial tone of "How are we doing with this question type?" became a tacit vote to ban the question type.
This is ...
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Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic, Revisited
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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"Grim & gritty" in game recommendations
From What's a good system for a short adventure / one-shot in Westeros:
The players should play lowborns, so grim and gritty rules would match my thoughts quite well
What is required to ...
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I've been told my question is better suited to a forum, but where should I go?
I asked a question that got closed for not being suited for the Q&A format that RPG.SE uses, and was told that my question would work better on a discussion forum.
Where can I find an RPG ...
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Downvoting behaviour does not enable me to improve my post
This is not about venting about the downvotes on my post. Let's agree that my post does contain mistakes and that my comments down the road were driven by frustration. I'd like to share why I was ...
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Voting on Subjective Answers
We have a lot of meta discussion about Good Subjective, Bad Subjective and asking the questions. We also have just as many on answering. But we don't have as many on voting.
It may come down to a ...
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