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41 questions linked to/from Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic? [2015]
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Are game recommendation questions on topic? [2011] [duplicate]
This Q&A is out of date - see the new answer (no) in Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic, Revisited
Many Stack Exchange sites, like the similar gaming.SE, do not allow game recommendation ...
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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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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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Are questions about rule intent on topic? [2018] [duplicate]
A reasonably common type of question on RPG.SE is "Why does this rule exist" or "why is a rule this way?"
These questions come in several flavors, which are not mutually exclusive:
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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This Q&A is out of date - game-recs are now off topic, see Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic, Revisited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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How to improve/maintain the quality-of-life of small fandoms in the face of a dominant big fandom on an open Stack Exchange?
Back when I joined RPGSE, I of course noticed how big the D&D demographic is here. And at first I thought, 'Hey, I can just Ignore all the AD&D tags and Watch tags of my games and everyone has ...
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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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We need to talk about late votes to “policy” metas
Let me start by trying to give a definition. We’re here talking about meta discussions which strongly guide or dictate behaviour, and in particular where there are opposing, incompatible options and – ...
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Pre-made comments: A resource-gathering & workshopping thread
Pre-made comments are awesome. They're also super powerful tools. Let's workshop some new ones and improve the old ones!
You've probably seen pre-made comments[i] used across the site by moderators, ...
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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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What makes my Pathfinder question off-topic, while the same 3.5e question is allowed to stay?
So I have seen an awesome question about useful books for a E6 campaign. However, the question is for D&D 3.5e, while I am interested in playing Pathfinder, so I asked the same question, but about ...
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Is it irresponsible to bump numerous questions by adding tags?
Following the highly supported answer here: Why do we use [Published-Adventures] instead of more specific tags? I feel like adding specific tags to questions about specific adventures is a good idea. ...
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Can we respond to a closed recommendation question by self-answering another question?
Recommendations of games that fit desired criteria are off topic at RPG.se for established reasons (mostly: it breaks voting and everyone has an opinion they must add to the list).
Earlier today a ...
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FAQ Maintenance 2023
Our FAQ has become quite cluttered and convoluted. There are many issues with it, but among the most pressing I currently see:
There are 3 questions about recommendation questions, which is a mess. ...
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Can we ask about the existence of a game?
There's a type of question that sits right on the edge of our old game-recommendations set of questions: the “does it exist?” question.
Viewed in one light, these are just game recs in sheep's ...
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