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28 questions linked to/from What to do when an edit guesses the system being used rather than waiting for the querent to clarify?
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Is adding a tag to a question without the author's input acceptable when you can't be sure of the author's intent? [duplicate]
Apologies for the lengthy title. I could not think of a more succinct way to phrase this.
The events prompting this question: I posted an answer to this question in which I guessed the system that ...
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Is it acceptable to append the "dnd-5e" tag to questions that lack it but are about Adventurers League? [duplicate]
This question was missing the dnd-5e tag but is asking a question in the context of an Adventurers League game.
I know we have a policy against guessing game editions but, in this case, no guess was ...
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Is it reasonable to add missing system tags when the system is certain? [duplicate]
As per What to do when an edit guesses the system being used rather than waiting for the querent to clarify?, editors should not guess the missing system tag (e.g. dnd-3.5e) without asking the ...
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Revisiting our "never guess the game system" policy [duplicate]
We have a policy that says we never guess the game system someone's playing when we need to know it but it's not clearly stated in the question. Conditions for our site have changed since it was ...
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Re-revisiting the "don't guess the system" policy [duplicate]
Note: As of September 3rd, 2021, this policy has been removed
Following the results of Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy this policy is no longer in effect. New guidance pending.
Sometimes ...
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Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy
We occasionally get questions which don’t specify which game system they are about, and which are about specific aspects of that game. Because the context and answers depend and vary with the system, ...
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Main help center page: Question collection and voting
Coming from this question about what to put on the main help center page, the suggestion is to have a (relatively short) list with important meta questions to help introduce new (and network) users to ...
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FAQ Proposal Index for Role-playing Games Stack Exchange
We have a great FAQ Index post here on the Role-Playing Games Meta Stack Exchange, but our current process for adding things to that list is a little lacking. Currently users add the faq-proposal tag ...
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When is it OK to assume the system without it being considered a guess?
This question was asked by a new user today. The terminology is clearly referring to D&D 5e, and they even link a related 5e Q&A.
However, I still proceeded to ask the user that we cannot ...
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Heavy edits to get a question reopened that change the fundamental underlying question
See the question What's a good method of giving a certain monster resistance to ranged attacks made against it? as a recent example. The question has been fundamentally edited in order to get it ...
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Why do we ask for the body of the question to demonstrate the tags it uses?
In a few questions I've raised in the past, it's been pointed out to me that it is not enough to just include the tags you categorize the Q into, but also call it out in the body of the Q itself. I've ...
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What qualifies as guessing on a system?
Two questions in quick succession,
Do Hexblade warlocks choose their spells from the Hexblade spell list or the warlock spell list? and What’s the right calculation for the Homunculus’s hit points ...
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What do we do with answers made obsolete by a question change?
There's a current case of an infrequent problem: Why is Donjon offline?
Dakeyras's answer was a response to a question that was once there. It was made in good faith, and is a helpful answer.
The ...
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How to handle sub-tags that lack appropriate parent tags?
So, a new user just posted a question that had the warlock tag, without any other tags. The warlock tag is defined as such, on its page:
This tag is for questions pertaining to the D&D warlock ...
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Is it against policy or bad practice to attempt system-agnostic answers to questions whose system has not been specified?
This answer (now deleted) was added to a question that is now closed because the system wasn't detailed by the querent. In it, the user first attempts a system-agnostic answer, and then gives the ...
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