Questions tagged [on-topic]
For questions about what topics and categories of question are on topic for RPG.SE.
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Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic? [2015]
Game recommendation questions are sadly NOT on topic here on RPG.SE.
This means the following kinds of questions are off topic:
I want to play (details) kind of game/story. What game should I use to ...
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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This Q&A is out of date - see the new answer (no) in Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic, Revisited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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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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Are campaign research questions on topic? [2012]
There is a category of questions on this site that seriously pollutes our scope. Taking these questions to their logical maximum (which I see us continually approaching) everything under the sun has ...
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How do we ask and answer subjective questions?
On RPG.SE, we deal with a fair number of questions that don't have a strict, objectively correct answer. Some game rules questions do, but we also have a good number of questions about how to run a ...
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Are character build or optimization questions on topic?
We attract some character build/optimization questions that are very vague - like this newer ones.
How can I add more attack to my Wood Bond Oracle?
A class like the "Action Survivor" ...
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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Recommendations for games and published adventures are now off topic due to our policy on them being rescinded.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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Are questions about rule intent on-topic? [2022]
Questions asking for the designer reasoning behind a given rule or other game elements have a long history of needing moderation. (If you're interested in past discussions on the subject, you can get ...
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What kind of questions can I ask here?
The FAQ says?
Role-playing Games - Stack Exchange is
for gamemasters and players of
tabletop, paper-and-pencil
role-playing games.
We've had a slight bit of discussion about LARPs that seem ...
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Are "list questions" on topic?
A “list question” is a question that generates an endless list of answers, none of them better or worse than any other. They're questions that ask things like “list all the things I could do with a ...
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Are campaign research questions on topic? [2010] [duplicate]
This conversation was continued two years later with a different conclusion based on the experience gleaned from enacting this one.
I was looking at What should I read/watch for information about the ...
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Tool recommendations aren't off topic yet, Or: Let the community actually decide on that first, because we didn't [duplicate]
A few hours ago, a tool-recommendation question was closed as off topic with the close reason we're now applying to game recommendation questions: Way to manage world factions and events. Now I see ...
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Are "critique my home-brewed content" questions on topic?
If I've developed some home-brewed content for my favorite RPG, such as a new class or monster for a d20 system, would posting it in a question asking for balance-related feedback be appropriate? ...
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Are questions about role-playing derivative board games on topic?
Wizards of the Coast, the same company that publishes DnD, has created a board game called Castle Ravenloft. It uses rules that are derived partially from DnD 4.0. In the future, they also plan to ...
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Are questions about alignment on topic?
In the various Dungeons & Dragons games, and a limited set of other RPGs, there is the concept of "alignment," which is the ethical and moral disposition of a character.
We have a fair number of ...
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Are 'fluff' setting related questions relevant?
I was about to ask for help coming up with a list of titles that fit in with the theme of the WH:40K universe (and with Rogue Trader in particular). Latin isn't my first language =)
In particular, I ...
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Are we satisfied with the state of homebrew review questions?
For the past seven years, homebrew review questions (that is, questions of the form, "Is this homebrew balanced?") have been on-topic and thus allowed. As brought up in the latest "How is the ...
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Are questions about roleplaying within a video game context on topic?
Based on the following question, which happens to be about a roleplaying game taking place within the (non-roleplaying) videogame of Terraria.
How to deal with erotic role play (ERP) frequency in a ...
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So, let’s talk about rule intent and question closing
Admittedly a bit slower that we’d have preferred (our bad), this is a continuance of rule intent discussion. (See why I’m avoiding saying revisit below).
As a brief summary, questions asking for ...
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Are "is this balanced" questions on-topic?
Before I start: I thought about the matter when reading this answer to the How is the community doing? [2018] post, which claims a larger percentage of negative reactions towards homebrew questions ...
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What is on topic on Role-playing Games Stack Exchange?
What kinds of questions should be on and off topic on Role-playing Games Stack Exchange?
This question is intended to help work through some of the concerns on the site regarding things being off ...
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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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What do games like Cthulhu require of Campaign Research Questions?
This one's for @Graham; I'd like to hear some explanations of what Cthulu and other games like it need of the fringe-off-topic/too-localized "trivia" questions we discussed in the question Why did the ...
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Are "choose your own adventure" questions on topic?
Only previous reference is in an answer to What kind of questions can I ask here?, which is 5 years old. We've seen much water pass under the bridge since then.
Question inspired by: Choose Your Own ...
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Should we add 'designers intent' questions to the "don't ask" questions list on the tour?
Just as it says on the tin:
This comment was left in response to a question closing.
The "Don't Ask" section of the Help Center doesn't explicitly state
that design intent questions are off ...
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Are general statistics or dice questions on topic?
Are general Statistics questions on topic here? Even if they are tangentially related to RP games?
What about general Dice questions?
I realize both of these questions are tangentially related to ...
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Are the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and contents on- or off-topic?
They're basically solo campaigns with the book acting as a DM, as I see it. However, you could argue that they're not, I guess.
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Are questions about group dynamics/psychology on topic?
The Help Center includes the following two points for on-topic questions:
A specific problem with playing or running a table-top RPG
Techniques for running or playing RPGs
But does that include ...
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How do 'Trivia' Questions meet the requirements for posting?
This query came about following a comment on Did Basic D&D invent and popularise the abbreviation XP for experience points?
I am particularly interested in how such a question meets the "...
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Tool Recommendations Should Be Allowed [duplicate]
Our game-rec discussion that ended in game-recs being banned focused specifically on game-system recommendation questions (i.e. those tagged game-rec) for the meta-statistics used to support banning. ...
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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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Should questions about dice in general be on-topic? [2019]
Over in another meta thread, there is a conversation about a particular question regarding dice-rolling outside of an RPG context. I suggest you read that thread first, but to boil it down to the ...
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Are 'Homebrew a class for me' questions allowed on this site?
We have 2 questions (this one and this one) that are asking for answers to homebrew up a class for them.
To me this seems like it's both very broad and entirely opinion-based. I can't see a way to ...
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Are MUDs/MUSHes/etc. that use RPG systems on-topic?
Are MUDs, MUSHes, and similar text-based roleplay platforms that implement RPG systems in an mostly or entirely automated way on-topic? MUDs lie somewhere on a spectrum between play-by-chat (which we ...
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Are questions of the form "what are all the X with property Y" on-topic?
A number of questions come our way, usually from D&D and Pathfinder, that are of the following form:
What are all the [spells|creatures|feats|items|...] that have the [fire|supernatural|undead|...
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Are questions about specific details found in RPG-based novels on topic?
Inspired by this question, are questions that ask about a specific detail (like, for example, the color of a creature's blood) or specific incident (like how a specific action could occur) on topic ...
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Revisit: Should we include rule intent/designer intent as off-topic in tour and help pages?
In a recent meta question, we had a user bringing a fair point:
I have read the thread. But does a meta-discussion overshadow the official page I've cited? Isn't that illogical? How would a user know ...
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Are podcast recommendations off topic?
I see this question being asked about actual podcasts of games and want to ask if there are any podcasts with x criteria. Is this regarded as off-topic or will it be otherwise closed due to some other ...
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Are "Does this type of product exist" questions acceptable?
I am interested in knowing if a particular type of product exists, that is a campaign setting entirely divorced from a game system.
I am not looking for a list of products (though a single example ...
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Is trivia on-topic?
We have an old question about trivia questions that we wrestled with, without a real consensus emerging:
How do 'Trivia' Questions meet the requirements for posting?
I went searching out ...
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Why did the automobiles and telephones thread close?
The discussion in Campaign Research Questions suggests that campaign research questions should be allowed.
Why did At what point in the 20th Century did automobiles and telephones become ubiquitous ...
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How can "Can a D&D character be launched into space?" be asked so it's valid?
Recently we had this question on the site, I've reproduced it completely below for those unable to view it. It directly conflicts with the site FAQ.
You should only ask practical, answerable ...
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Should we make a new policy for idea solicitation questions?
They seem to be off-topic, according to real question have answers, and we seem to get a lot of them, and we seem to leave them open for a farily long time, letting them draw at least a few low-...
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Are setting questions for something that isn't a game campaign on-topic?
In the sci-fi book I'm currently researching, I'm currently struggling to come up with a reasonable act 3-4 adversary (about 2/3 through the book). Now, ordinarily, I'd ask this on writers.SE, but ...
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We are not lawyers. Why do we allow law topics?
This is a site about Role-Playing Games. We are experts on Role-Playing Games. There is a sickening number of questions about law, that are only tangentially related to games, and they are being ...
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Are potatoes on-topic here?
As Potato is a single page game, here it is:
Potato was mentioned in this question as an example of a one page RPG, and the objection was raised in the comments there that it wasn't an RPG. My ...
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Are questions entirely about snacks on topic?
In gm-techniques there are lots of questions and answers that mention snacks (One example). Those questions are usually broader than just snacks, and I can't find any question that's only about snacks....
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Are questions learning about loaded dice and creating and detecting them on topic?
Can an oven and melting be used to further alter an existing die's biases or balance? was closed as off topic. Is this area really off topic for our site? If it isn't, can this question be ...
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Are all questions that are even tangentially related to Computer-Based RPGs or computer games off topic for this stack?
My question How do Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2's “rolling” for stats actually get generated? was closed as being off-topic because
Questions about playing video games and developing video ...
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