Questions tagged [answers]
For all questions that are primarily about answers - both on mainsite and on Meta. (If a more relevant/appropriate tag exists, it may be used alongside or instead of this one.)
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What are the citation expectations of answers on RPG Stack Exchange?
As a Stack Exchange site, answers on RPG.SE are expected to be cited and backed up, but what the expectations are exactly can be hard to find.
What are the citation expectations of answers on here?
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Should users refrain from answers (or partial answers) in comments?
There are situations, when you know something that is related to the question, but it's too insubstantial to be a proper answer. For example, let's imagine a question:
In which edition of game X ...
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Should I be requesting people answer the question independently?
For a while now, we've had answers like these ones which fail to really answer the question on their own, but just add some extra information building on other pre-existing answers. They often even ...
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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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Stance on using D&D Beyond for references?
With the release of dndbeyond, and seeing it used a few times around the site, I wanted to ask if we have (or should have) a policy regarding using direct links to a paywall shielded website, instead ...
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What constitutes copyright infringement?
Looking at the question on teleportation, there is this answer that appears to quote a body of text from PHB3. I don't actually own that book, so I couldn't check it out. But that got me thinking ...
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When rules change but votes don't, how to handle it?
Sometimes, not that rarely, rules change in RPGs. Answers that were good become objectively, definitely wrong overnight, through no fault of their writer.
The accepted course of action is to do ...
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How do we appropriately back up a subjective answer? [duplicate]
If anyone has other approaches to subjective support, please provide an answer on the duplicate questions linked above.
It is clear that we require answers to be backed up here- whether they are ...
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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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Can non-open-license rules be discussed, or not?
Context
This is in relation to this question here:
Is there a limit to how much stuff you can carry?
And in particular this comment from a mod:
[...] Age of Rebellion is not open licensed and ...
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A question has some facts majorly wrong: should I be correcting them in comments or an answer?
I've come across a question where the querent has some facts majorly wrong, and they seem to be a substantial cause of the problem they're describing.
I know that we refrain from answering in comments,...
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I have some information to add to help someone solve their issue, do I answer or comment?
So, this has happened to me multiple times now, and to be honest it's getting frustrating as a casual user of this particular SE (especially since the judgements seem less cut-and-dried than other SE'...
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When a Question changes, should answers change, too?
This question on OOC talk has changed significantly since it was originally asked and several answers given. When something like this happens, offering new information, is is best to edit an answer ...
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Whether to answer or not if one believes there is no answer possible
So, there is this (good) question about asking for a particular authoritative source. However, I believe there can be no answer either because of some fundamental problem with the framework or because ...
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What do I do with a question that contains multiple questions in its body and/or title?
How do I address a question where the description does not match the title? For example, the question's title asks for one specific thing, and in the description, a different (sometimes multiple) ...
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How to answer a RAW question when the RAW are silent?
What do you do when the OP says they only want RAW but the RAW don't mention what they want? I went for "tell them the RAW are silent but give them your humble (and indeed tongue-in-cheek) opinion for ...
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When do we close a question for drawing opinion-based answers and how can we try to get ahead of such closures?
I'm not talking about opinion-based questions, but the flipside of when a question could generate good subjective answers, but doesn't.
This question does have several parts that are tied together:
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What to do when an answer guesses the system of a question rather than waiting for the querent to clarify? [duplicate]
We have guidance about instructing that we do not allow and will revert any edit that attempts to guess the system of the question and edit it into the question here. We also have related guidance for ...
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What to do when there's more than one good answer?
This is meant to be a community resource, not a resource for any one specific situation. However, in the end, the asker is accepting the answer, which will relate to his take on the question. If ...
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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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Should we be answering the question, or the question posed in the description?
Most specifically referencing this: Does a natural 20 on an animal handling check do anything special?
The stated question is more general than the one asked (and answered) in the post body. In this ...
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Should I post two answers if I find contradicting arguments?
RPG rules, in pursuit of flavour, can sometimes be flowery and ambiguous, even self-contradicting[citation needed]. In doing research for improving one of my answers that tries to resolve an ...
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How should we handle answers that use Jeremy Crawford's now unofficial tweets?
The 2019 sage advice compendium has released, and it includes a change to what is considered "official rulings."
Previously, Jeremy Crawford had the capacity to make official rulings over twitter. ...
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Do I edit or create a new answer when my view on my current answer changes significantly?
Researching my answer to this question: Can the arcane/druidic focus staff double as quarterstaff? has lead me to re-evaluate my answer to this question: Can an Elven Wizard use a bow for an arcane ...
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What to do with a good answer to a duplicate question after the closure?
Recently someone asked about a Rogue sneak attacking on another's turn. I poked around, sure we'd answered it, found nothing, and answered it myself.
Later another user found the older duplicate ...
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What's our policy with answers advocating piracy (accidentally or not)?
In my question about legal 5e PDF's, it has, more than once, attracted answers advocating piracy or even linking to pirated versions of these PDF's. Is our policy just to downvote and move on, or ...
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What kind of edits are acceptable to a question after an answer has been posted?
This post originates from this question, but is not about handling that question. I will summarize the transpired events for context.
The question is about a specific rule and at its core about ...
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What kind of answering guidelines should we have?
If there's guidelines for asking questions, there should probably be some guidelines for providing answers. To this end, what do you think we should say?
Edit: I've also suggested this item for ...
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Duplicate question with better documented answers
Recently this question has been rightfully closed as a duplicate. However, I feel that some of the answers on the duplicating question are better documented than on the duplicated one.
What is the ...
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Does this answer to a question about a Vampire Discipline that lets them disbelieve in things have too much quoted text?
In the answer to this question Where can I find this Discipline that allows a Vampire to disbelieve in sunlight, stakes, etc. so strongly that it can ignore them?, there is a large block of source ...
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Are self-answer questions still allowed?
Shortly put I had a mechanics question about infinity-rpg regarding the stealth system that was not immediately clear. I figured out the solution eventually within the book, but thought it might make ...
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Please consider using book references that will be understood internationally
This originally was an off-topic comment elsewhere. I think it's important enough to warrant it's own post.
As this is an international site, our language is English. However, many people play games ...
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Should I update my answer with information from someone else's answer?
In this question I made an answer and @illustro also provided an answer which includes information that I feel would improve my answer (I made a similar point in my answer, but his answer provided ...
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When do homebrew suggestions need to be playtested by an answerer?
It is unclear to me when someone needs to provide playtesting for homebrew suggestions and when they don't.
As an example, in this answer, MattDM provides a really good answer for the first half, ...
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Is it possible to change a vote on an answer from the question being edited?
I down-voted This Answer, as at the time I felt that it didn't actually answer the question as it was asked.
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Pathfinder sources: prd vs d20pfsrd
For answers to Pathfinder questions is either a more preferred source for citations and references?
Is either of them treated with more authority by members of this stack exchange site?
Links the ...
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Is it OK to edit an outdated answer to facilitate a vote change?
A rule has been changed, and an answer that was correct became wrong. The recommended course of action is to downvote and wait.
However, downvoting is not possible if you upvoted earlier, because ...
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What is an acceptable form for a "no" answer to a question of the form "Does X exist in the lore?"
This question asks whether there is an "in-universe" explanation for a particular piece of lore in a particular setting. Note that there is already a meta question about the question's topicality. The ...
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What's the proper way to ask for new answers?
So I have a question that is very relevant...and has been asked before.
This question was asked all the way back in the prehistory of today's technology - 2010. Most of the answer acknowledge that ...
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should I post an answer to a slightly old question that already has some good answers?
to be more specific, should I post an answer to a question if I like at least one of the answers it already has, but I believe it is missing something that I myself could add, or should I just add ...
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Should questions about Pathfinder now link to Archives of Nethys over d20pfsrd?
An extension of this other meta question;
Paizo has taken down their own PRD and officially licensed the Archives of Nethys page as their reference document. Archives of Nethys provides a community ...
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Why was my answer deleted?
My reply was in answer to this question about 'How to make players settle differences IC?
I posted my answer, got a comment from SevenSidedDie, replied to it, then he replied and deleted my answer in ...
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How to deal with answers based on the wrong system/edition?
I had recently seen and answered a question about Silver Nitrate and werewolves/UV light and Vampires in Werewolf the Apocalypse/Vampire the Masquerade. I answered accordingly, but someone did answer ...
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How to handle late updates to answers for questions?
I answered this question a couple weeks ago. Today the publishers put out an update to the system that changed the answer to the question, and I edited my answer to account for that.
Should I have ...
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What To Do When There Are No Right Answers, Only Wrong Ones
This question, about the fairness of a 7-sided die, troubles me.
It is in my opinion well-thought out and well-formulated. It is asking if a particular die has had any sort of rigorous analysis (...
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Edit vs own answer
There were 2 answers for this question, both more than 50% right.
I ended up adding my answer, but should I change the other answers?
On one hand they contain factual errors, so they should be ...
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What are the customs for incorporating other answers into your own?
I'm new to SE as a contributor. In this answer I didn't initially think about the time to relay information to other players, but several other people pointed it out, so I added a note to my answer as ...
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What is the best way to respond to an incorrect answer when a comment is not enough?
I just had an answer to the question What can someone do while forced to doff armor from the heat metal spell removed, with the suggestion that it might be better as a comment.
I initially started ...
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How to revisit citation expectations for subjective questions
Based on questions like Medix2's, Medix2's other question, and my earlier one, there is a big disconnect between the historical guidance for supporting subjective answers and what the community likes/...
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I ran out of characters for my Answer... what to do?
I am working on a monstrosity of an answer, reviewing the various splats of Werewolf the Apocalypse here.
All worked well till I tried to add something about the Nuwisha.... at which point this ...
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