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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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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Is this overview question ok to ask here?
I am looking to learn more about RPG theory in general and am considering posting a request for an overview here just like one would on Christianity.SE. I am unsure whether such questions are allowed ...
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What VTC reason should I choose if there are multiple applicable problems?
So, we have a new earnest poster who seems to think this site is a forum. They've had several questions closed, including this one (well, it will be soon). I'd like to close their questions with ...
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How to ask a question regarding canonical events that generate negative player reactions?
I have been reading on the Harpers (a faction in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons and Dragons) a bit, and I have seen quite some comments online of people not liking them a lot because of the ...
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How much pedagogical detail is legit in student-oriented game recommendation?
I'm thinking of asking and self-answering a game-recommendation question. I teach English as a Foreign Language (EFL/ESOL) at a foreign university. I had a great experience last semester running a ...
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What are our requirements for tool recommendation questions and answers?
Tool recommendations are a fairly popular category of question (found in tool-recommendation, and a lot of them are simply tagged tools). Being recommendations, these questions and answers need to go ...
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Why is our help center so awful?
Ok, so theoretically, if I want to learn how to participate in the site I can do so by going to the help center, right? Wrong.
There are a vast number of meta.rpg posts (e.g. How do we handle a ...
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What should I do when I want to downvote a comment?
Most of the time the sort of comments I'd like to downvote are comment-answers that use the inability of people downvote comments to look highly supported. I flag these as comment answers and they ...
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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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Grouping questions in the theme of "how to roleplay a character more X than I am"
Are there any options for grouping together those questions? I've seen a number of them now, most of them attract really good answers. But they seem to be a common theme and I might imagine that many ...
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What's the purpose of the 24 hour wait on awarding a bounty?
There was a totally awesome answer to someone else's question that really helped me out. So I want to award an additional bounty... just as a way of iterating this. I started a bounty, and checked ...
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Are rpg-specific collector questions on-topic?
Sparked by comments on https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/56737/which-is-the-most-obscure-rare-or-hard-to-find-fantasy-rpg-ever-published?noredirect=1#comment117817_56737
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Is experience playing a game as valid as citing a rule?
I would argue that, no, it's not. So long as the question being discussed is a matter of RAW, then experience is not a valid argument. If someone has played a game for 20 years, then yes, they're ...
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What's wrong with asking if something is 'good' or 'good for X' or etc?
So, I have noticed several high-rep users edit perfectly good and upvoted questions containing language like "Is this good" or "Is this a good way of approaching this issue/solving this problem" or "...
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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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Why is it "too opinion-based" to ask about good role playing for the purpose of giving out experience?
This question was closed for being too opinion based. To be fair, I got enough answers, but I'd like to bring it up here, because I feel almost every question under gm-techniques and problem-players ...
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Can I ask questions about miniatures?
I was wondering if there were models/miniatures for certain characters in 40k, but I'm not sure if I can ask about miniatures specifically.
I am aware that asking could possibly be considered a "...
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D&D 3.5e and Pathfinder -- read *which* book? [closed]
D&D 3.5e and Pathfinder are somewhat-special among the systems we run into in that their mechanics are spread across many texts, as opposed to being defined in one place. Of course, SRDs help ...
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Why doesn't RPG fit into Arqade?
Why can't RPG fit into Arqade? After all, it has an rpg tag. The way I see it, any question about an role playing game would be a game that fits in Gaming. Why isn't it merged?
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Is there a way to remove dead tags from the Main Chat room tags?
the tables and pen-and-paper tags appear in the list of room tags for the main chat, but they are dead links because those tags don't currently exist. Can they be changed, or are we stuck with them?
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How to build X in (a point-buy system)
In strictly point-buy systems (like GURPS and HERO System) you can build pretty much any character/vehicle/gadget you can think of if you know how to combine the powers and modifications thereof. ...
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When a question is closed as not being a good fit for the site, why am I still able to vote up answers?
I understand that it is not possible to add a new answer to a question that has been closed, but why are you still able to vote existing answers up? This doesn't make any sense to me, as surely it ...
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Is an extraordinary lack of research effort on the part of the asker a good reason to vote to close? [duplicate]
Some questions asking for rules clarification aren't just fairly easy for anyone familiar with the game to answer, the correct answer is immediately clear upon reading a single, short, clearly marked, ...
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Why Are Our 5e Questions Terrible?
I have to say, I am not a fan of most of our 5e questions that are basically along the lines of "sum up the rules for me." Many don't appear to even be real questions, just information seeding. I ...
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SRD name vs book name
Someone asked a question about the D&D 3.5e spell Mage's Magnificent Mansion, which can be found under that name in the online SRD. An edit was then requested to change the name to Morkenkainen's ...
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Does our canonical "Where can I find other RPG players" question serve online players well?
We have a question that we treat as the canonical duplciation-target for "where do I find players?" questions: Where can I find other RPG players?
Today we got Where's a good place to play D&...
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Massive edit to a question undercuts existing highly-upvoted answer
Simulate/Emulate 4th Edition Invoker in 5th Edition
Per advice from doppelgreener, the OP has massively changed this question – do the question they meant to ask, no doubt, but existing meta ...
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How can I make this question any clearer?
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What Paragon-Tier modules can I use to showcase the Underdark?
There are several qualifications in this question (including new ones, because BESW asked for them) and it was placed [ON HOLD.]
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When is a comment not a comment?
In the help, valid comments are referred to thusly:
Use comments to ask for more information or clarify a question or answer.
So, that I get... when the question/answer isn't clear, you ask to get ...
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(game-aids) vs. (tools)
What is the functional difference between game-aids and tools?
The latter has a well-defined excerpt and description:
Excerpt: An online or offline tool used in preparing or running a RPG.
Wiki: A ...
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The [rules-as-written] tag is a good tag, but we've made it sick. Let's cure it
rules-as-written has two purposes right now:
"this question is about the rules as written"
"answer must obey special rules"
The latter makes it a meta tag. Meta tags are never, in the long run, a ...
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What are the Pros and Cons of the rules-as-written tag?
Recently there's been a lot of discussion about the merits and/or problems with the rules-as-written in the comments on various questions and in chat. Such discussion probably has a better home here ...
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Experiential audit of [rules-as-written], please?
So, I've been noticing a trend on rules-as-written lately. Mainly, people realising that "rules" is banned, so they use the first tag that starts with rules which, y'know, says rules on it.
This is ...
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Is it valid to ask similar questions, one requesting RAW and the other XP?
Related to this question.
I am wondering if it would be excessive to split up questions requesting RAW answers and actual experience answers. One example would be if I took this question and ...
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What are appropriate sources to reference in questions tagged [rules-as-written]?
I'm raising this question based on the discossion around these two questions. In the second question, the accepted answer references the Pathfinder FAQ, which is not considered RAW by some users.
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Commonalities in Systems vs Community response
With the wealth of RPG systems and questions that can be given more flavor from answering a non rules lawyering question....Is it alright or just frowned upon to answer from a similar systems ...
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On a lighter note: 'Tis the season for Hats!
Winterbash 2014 is coming!* 'Tis the season of earning silly hats for your avatar to wear by achieving achievements in Stack usage. Not only are these achievements more "fun", off-kilter, and promote ...
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How do I best improve the linked question?
This question is on hold as being too broad/not specific enough, and I'm looking for ways to improve it.
To explain the kinds of answers I'm looking for in the question/the kind of question I'm ...
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Clean up tagging for "World of Darkness" related questions
I find the current tagging for world of darkness to be quite confusing. world-of-darkness what's the purpose of this? it seems to refer to what is now canonically known as "classic world of darkness" ...
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Edit: Die vs dice
For context: I'm talking about this edit of my question.
I'm aware that "die" is a possible, maybe more correct singular of the plural "dice". However, "dice" also is an accepted singular form. And ...
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Do touch spells deserve a tag?
So I noticed when I was writing an answer to this question that we have a lot of questions about “touch attacks,” which are used for certain magic abilities in D&D that require touching the target....
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How broad is too broad?
I have a problem understanding votings again.
This is a question basically asking how to run an epic campaign.
This is a question basically asking how to run an evil campaign.
One was downvoted ...
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How do I list an external resource?
After reading through the 5e DMG, I became disgusted with the way magical items are organized. I'm creating a sortable list and will upload to DropBox or something this weekend; my question is, how do ...
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i flagged this question opinion based and now it is closed as such but my flag is declined
Is heat metal too powerful?
This question was closed because it was opinion based. My opinion based flag is declined
This is confusing
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Should we clean up the L5R tag?
Given that L5R 4th Edition has been around for a while, and the L5R tag contains questions from multiple editions (and is often multi-tagged with L5R-4e) I'd like to make L5R a synonym of either L5R-...
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RPG Stack Exchange D&D 5th Edition Contest - Dungeon Master's Guide Edition
All Raffles Now Completed
Thanks to everyone who participated! 466 questions were asked by 172 users across the months that this contest ran. Thanks also go to those who answered all of these ...
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What do nomothetic and idiographic mean for RPGs?
A few times recently, the concepts of nomothetic and idiographic have come up in use on the site — particularly from Brian Ballsun-Stanton, who wrote a paper in which those concepts are pivotal. ...
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Should answers be like essays or newspapers
Right now I write my answers sort of like essays: the answer has a thesis, generally present somewhere in the first text block, and the most answer-y portions of the answer occur in the first and ...
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Should the About, FAQs and Formatting be highlighted better?
I know that getting users to read About, FAQs or the Formatting page is not something that will ever be guaranteed, but at the same time I feel that the layout/lack of highlighting of these areas of ...
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How do you vote?
When I was commenting on the RAW meta question, I started to document how I vote on answers.
Here is mine.
I always up vote an answer if they answer the question, even if I think the answer is from ...
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