Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Should this question on whether DM's hiding rolls is standard remain open?
This question on if a DM can hide their rolls is a very old question that was closed as opinion-based due to the answers that were coming in.
The question itself seems to just be asking if hiding ...
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For homebrew review, is it appropriate to add features of the homebrew that were meant to be a part of it but weren't written down to the question?
In my question Is this revision of the level 2 Transmutation Wizard feature balanced? [Version 2], I intended for "stone" to exclude glass, but I now realize that not everyone reading that ...
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How should we deal with questions about 5e rules from people playing Baldur's Gate 3?
We have had several questions from people that play Baldur's Gate 3, and ask about how something that happens in the game works within the 5e tabletop rules.
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Can a warlock be transformed ...
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Asking about "mooning"
So, this question is gaining some attention due to its content - specifically about the act of "mooning".
Mooning is the act of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g., by ...
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What was the impact of the moderation strike on site activity?
During the last several weeks, as the strike was going on, it felt as if there was significantly less activity on the site, with several active contributors electing to not vote, edit, or Q&A.
The ...
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What are some consensus recommendations for screenreader readability formatting?
Recently, NautArch edited my answer and "Adjusted headers for screenreader readability".
Largely this consisted of changing the one-hashtag heading [#] to two hashtags [##] and then ...
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How do our strike-participating community members feel about the moderation-strike negotiation results?
As of Monday, the call for a strike has ended, see the adjusted open letter and several organised groups are resuming operations:
See the moderator poll on Discord, which voted to end the strike.
See ...
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Are questions about the viability of a campaign or mission's premise acceptable?
I'm currently in the early stages of planning a campaign where my current idea is that the PCs will be travelling over a large continent, and the primary thing keeping them together is a curse that ...
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Should this general PBTA tag be removed when there is already Dungeon World tag?
Does this trigger violate GM principles? Can it be fixed?
This question has powered-by-the-apocalypse and dungeon-world
Should the PBTA tag removed since Dungeon World defines what the question is ...
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Would we benefit from a Tucker's Kobolds tag?
There are 40-ish items that discuss tucker's Kobolds as a concept on our site. Three of them are questions. They are a beloved (and feared) meme in our community...
Would we benefit from a Tucker's ...
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Is there an issue with tagging questions about portals?
I occasionally add fitting but missing tags to posts, for example if the question is about a monster and is missing the tag, I add monsters, or if it is about the action economy, but has no such tag, ...
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How would I go about requesting homebrew-review for an entire game system?
I have about 3k words of a game system representing mostly additions and improvements to Wushu Open.
I'd like to request comments, complaints, criticism, and concepts, but I fear that the site's ...
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Should this question be considered "idea generation" and closed?
This question apparently doesn't have a single correct answer: What are some monsters that could trap NPCs for a long time without killing them?
On the other hand, it is pretty narrow for being "...
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Stack Exchange general moderation and curation strike begins today (concluded as of August 7th)
As of today, community members and diamond moderators across the Stack Exchange network are commencing a general moderation strike in protest of bad policy and worse treatment from Stack Overflow, Inc ...
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How is the community doing? [2023]
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.
This community check-in has been done for the last few years (...
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Is there a way to ask focused opinion-based questions? [duplicate]
For context I want link this as the question that inspired me to ask about the possibility for certain types of opinion-based questions.
The question I asked, while having some rules based elements, ...
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Is this title a spoiler and how would we avoid the spoiler if so?
This question: Is Tiamat's cold breath supposed to be a Dex save? seems to include a spoiler about the weapons of a boss within the title (I haven't finished the adventure including the boss so I ...
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Is asking a questions about ChatGPT as tool for character/NPC creation appropriate for this stack?
I want to ask a question about the ways people have used ChatGPT to create NPCs, characters, settings, and adventures for their D&D campaign. The question in mind is something along the lines of &...
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I would like an update for this old question: Should I use a bounty or a new question?
I have asked this question some years ago.
It is about giving spells as a racial feature in dnd-5e. The answer is good but racial features of the kind have significantly changed in official ...
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Should an answer be rewritten completely if new external info becomes available?
My question was prompted by this answer where the rules were unclear at the time of answering. The complete answer was now replaced with recent info from errata. The question wasn't ever changed in a ...
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Closing really old questions that have recently been bumped?
So, recently this question came to the front in the context of updating broken links. I added some more tags because I felt that the ones already there didn't really cover the question. Then someone ...
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Would this question about the Deck of Many Things be allowed?
I recently asked this question on the Deck of Many Things which was closed as opinion-based. I would like to revisit the topic and ask for expert opinion from a different angle.
To avoid as much ...
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Should there be a tag for death saves?
I just asked this question about death saves and noticed there is no tag for death saves.
It seems to me as though such a tag would be useful. It is an important concept in multiple versions of D&...
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How could I fix my question about the Deck of Many Things?
My question concerns this question on the main page: Deck of Many Things: How problematic is each card for a campaign?
It was closed for a mixture of being unclear, being too broad, and being opinion-...
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Why was a comment about etymology removed?
This question about the origin of the name Yan-C-Bin has so far attracted only one answer. That answer makes the claim that all of the names of the Princes of Elemental Evil were made up "...
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Should this stack ban ChatGPT?
Over at Meta Stack Exchange, the guidance to date is that each Stack Exchange network site needs to decide for itself whether to ban ChatGPT-generated posts. RPG SE Meta is the correct format for ...
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Workshopping Help: "Should I allow a Player to use a premade character?"
I have a question I want to ask and would like to run it by the community before I actually ask it so I can obtain feedback.
Here is my question:
Should I allow a Player to use a premade character?
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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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Has site-wide quality drastically improved while our analytics are in freefall?
In our recent visual excerpt of a year in moderation, we see that community moderation actions have drastically declined. One explanation is that our site-wide quality improved drastically — ...
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How to ask effective questions?
I'm trying to work on posting at least one DnD related question each day and I'm finding it difficult to actually get questions that get decent responses from the community. My best question (Can the ...
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Thank you to the community
I'm 45 and table top RPGs have been a core part of my identity since I was 12, often the only way I had of socializing. Due to a variety of life circumstances, it has been about 2 years since I've ...
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Workshopping "What is the best way to bring a campaign to an end?"
I've recently posted the question What is the best way to bring a campaign to an end? on the Role-Playing Games Stack Exchange, but it was closed because it ended up seeming too broad or just phrased ...
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I tried to stay D&D question neutral last year, how did I do?
I made a claim in chat roughly a year ago:
I'm staying dnd-5e neutral this year, and I've just posted my first question, and made sure to ask a non-dnd-5e question :D1
And I'd like to reflect on how ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Workshopping Question about picking the right weapon
As I have talked about here in a bit more detail, I have always had an issue wrapping my head around certain core (and simple) concepts within D&D 5e. In this particular case, the issue pertains ...
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How can I share research data?
Ever since starting to build characters, I have struggled with trying to understand weapon damage and the merits of modifiers. After someone suggested that a 1d6 weapon with duelling hit stronger than ...
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Brackets in question titles
This question includes brackets in its title:
Do the relevant stats of a creature summoned via a "Summon [Creature Type]"-style spell change, if your stats change after you summoned it?
I ...
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What is OGL 1.1: A request to reopen
I've created the following question today.
What's going on with D&D's leaked OGL 1.1? How does it affect me?
It got closed for being off-topic.
I don't believe in it being the case. OGL is ...
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Should we delete this -17 answer that appears as an answer snippet in google search?
When I google "can you counterspell a counterspell", google returns an answer snippet from the site:
Unfortunately, this snippet comes from this answer, which has a score of -17 at the ...
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Clarification for community bot's request for additional supporting information
I've been a long time lurker in this stackexchange, having spent most of my time at math.stackexchange.com. I know each separate site can have its own community standards, so I was hoping to get ...
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How to deal with poorly translated questions?
This question arose from this post. However this is not the first time, and definitely not the last, that I've seen this issue, so it seems important to me to determine exactly how to treat those ...
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Would a question on Centaur Equine Bond & an ability granting a Climb speed equal to normal speed be on-topic and not a duplicate?
I have a rules question I believe isn't covered by the three similar (but not duplicate questions). Is this something that should be answered on the other questions or does it deserve it's own ...
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How to handle "make this better" questions when the asker has little or no GM restrictions and has a lot of chosen options?
This question asks for help improving a custom item: Is this armor the best my character can get? They have already chosen 9 rules elements to add to the item. It will be difficult to think of a ...
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Winterbash: Gimme all your Hatting!
To continue Thomas' tradition (which was a continuation of doppelgreener's tradition) of collecting the memorabilia of transient hat awards (and maybe also share the how we got secret hats? I think I ...
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Let us discuss the reasons that play a role when evaluating to vote for deleting a low-quality answer
Let us discuss the reasons that play a role when evaluating to vote for deleting a low-quality answer.
Deleting answers perceived as low-quality is a contentious topic, and many cases aren't as clear-...
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Does asking for a list of reference books within a typically interwoven set of systems that contain a specific rule count as "shopping for games"?
Under the post Does anyone know if there are any rules for Materials refinement in Pathfinder & DnD type settings or similar?, there was a discussion in the comments about whether or not this ...
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Does [chameleon] blend in?
The chameleon tag was just created for the D&D 3.5e prestige class, chameleon.
Our guidance on when to create tags for individual classes is fairly vague (by necessity), and I think this one might ...
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Does using numerous whitespace characters to center a line of text cause accessibility issues?
I'm quoting something that has a centered line of text in the source formatting (pg. 175 of the D&D 5e PHB). I initially used the MathJax display style environment $$ like so:
Here’s how to ...
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This tag is not for just saying "I am a new GM": okay, but we did anyway. Now what?
The tag snippet for new-gm reads:
For questions specifically about problems inherent to becoming or tutoring a game master (GM). This tag is not for just saying "I am a new GM": see the ...
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What sort of site is 'JugonesTop"?
This recent question prompted this answer, to which a comment asked "Where are you getting your quotes from? I cant find them in the PHB".
In attempting to source the putative rules quotes, ...
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