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What defines too Broad as it applies to these two questions?
Recently, this question of mine was closed as too broad:
Avatars of Nature
I can understand the impulse given the amount of information I provided, however I intentionally tried to mirror this ...
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Why do my questions about homebrew content get downvoted?
In my brief experience with this site, I have encountered problems with asking for balance on homebrew items. Every single time I have posted a homebrew question, it is downvoted, regardless of ...
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Why was this question closed as too broad?
How can wizards gain more spells per day?
This question was closed as too broad, and I disagree with that flag. The question is quite narrow in terms of scope, nor would any answer that limits itself ...
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How do we back up affirmative answers to “Am I understanding this correctly”-style questions?
A new user left this answer to the Can Heighten Spell benefit a [Reserve] feat?:
Legal and working as intended.
I found this question (and answer) when looking through the review queue, and there ...
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Should this dice question be open or closed?
This meta is about the mainsite question How I can I roll a number of non-digital dice to get a random number between 1 and 150?
It was closed by five users,
then reopened by five other users. (Many ...
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What warranted multiple downvotes and a delete vote here?
In D&D, how do you find attack bonus for weapons?
Okay, clearly not a 100 score answer -- I don't own the books (certainly wouldn't have them with me at work even if I did). Is it a clear no-no, ...
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Why are my homebrew posts being downvoted and ignored while another user at the exact same time has many upvotes and thousands of views?
Recently, I posted a homebrew Warlock otherworldly patron and got 3 downvotes, 173 views, and 1 answer. Meanwhile, another homebrew Warlock otherworldly patron got 2k views, 14 upvotes, and one good ...
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Partially answered second question in old question causing dupe flagging in new question
I flagged What passive scores exist? as a duplicate of Which skills can be used passively? based on the titles. However it was pointed out that the primary question of the new Q&A was only a ...
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How should this question about content in a site that includes piracy be handled?
It is well known that we do not condone piracy and usually the way to handle links to pirated sources is to replace them with corresponding legal ones.
A question asked today, Is the fencer subclass ...
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My question was marked as shopping when it isn't. How do I get it reopened?
My question was wrongly put on hold as shopping. It is a finding online resources question and, as far as I can tell, seems to be no different than other questions that weren't closed. It's not asking ...
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Should my comment on this question be an answer?
An off-topic question requesting Where to get feedback on homebrews was just asked. I left this comment below:
Welcome to rpg.se! Take the [tour] and visit the [help center] to learn how things ...
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Is this question a duplicate?
My question: Can unconscious characters be unwilling? recieved a bit of debate on its status as a duplicate of a couple different questions:
Can unconscious characters be willing?
Can you make an ...
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Are questions that are On-Topic but generated a lot of opinion based answers doomed to never be solved?
So I am still unsatisfied with the responses I got for the way this post got moderated:
How to roleplay my character's ethics according to the DM when I don't understand those ethics?
After ...
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How should we handle this question, most of the answers to which only address the minor/secondary question?
This question How bad is Sunlight Sensitivity (of Drow, etc.), especially for casters? has two questions on it:
How bad is Sunlight Sensitivity, especially for casters?
How to mitigate it?
Now, it ...
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Why was this post about roleplaying my character's ethics closed?
How to roleplay my character's ethics according to the DM when I don't understand those ethics?
I don't know what to add.
I can't see by any means how it's opinion-based. I am asking for ...
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Is this question too opinion-based?
A player has asked the DM to ignore the lore to enable his character concept. What are the pros and cons if the DM does so? has gone through two close-reopen cycles.
The first seems pretty ...
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Should this question about player attendance be system agnostic?
This question is asking about an issue that seems like it is pretty clear of system mechanics. However, it started as being tagged with dnd-5e and it is clear that is the game being played.
I ...
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Workshopping my question about Armor Class ranges
I posted this question: Which Armor Class values should be used as Controls when making Damage Calculations? in an attempt to try to reify the Armor Class values I use when making DPR calculations for ...
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Should I delete an answer that becomes irrelevant after the question is edited? [duplicate]
For example, this answer (which I've deleted) to What happens when you cast Fog Cloud behind a wall?, but this isn't the only case.
The question originally asked about Create Bonfire, not Fog Cloud - ...
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Why was my duplicate flag declined?
I tagged this question as a duplicate of this question yet my flag was declined. The question has now been marked as a duplicate of that question, so why was my flag declined?
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How can the D&D lore question about evil/good and light/dark be reopened?
I asked this question (What is D&D lore establishing Evil/Good = Dark/Light?) to gain some knowledge about D&D lore, mythology, arcana, tales, stories etc.within published D&D literature ...
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Why was my comment requesting clarification on an answer deleted?
Today I commented on an answer to How should I deal with a player who wants to dictate loot distribution?, asking the answerer for clarification (and implicitly suggesting an improvement at the same ...
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Partial answer deleted as not an answer re: Medieval law and a tabletop role-playing game
In the following question:
Does Common Law apply to Nobles?
The OP asks about applying a certain section of medieval law to the Warhammer Fantasy setting. I understood this to be a question about ...
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What can be done with my question about Exploiter Wizards and Arcanists to save it?
I have asked a question about comparing the Arcanist with an Exploiter Wizard.
It got closed quickly, then reopened, now it's getting closed again. Before a full close-reopen war starts, I'd like ...
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Multiclassing mayhem: should all these questions be duplicates of this question about wizards' spellbooks?
Can a multiclass Wizard copy any Wizard spell they find into their spellbook? is a dupe target for a decent number of questions. However, I question whether some of them are actually duplicates. The ...
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My question was edited and now it looks like that the answer is in the question
I posted this question a few weeks ago:
Do monks have a gempukku ceremony?
As you can see, the second quote in this question seems to answer the question. If you look at the edit history, you can ...
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Why are 2, very similar optimization questions treated so differently?
Both of them has a common theme, "how can I get the most of these characters, given these boundary conditions", but the treatment is very different:
How can I optimize this “max-languages” build’s ...
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Is “No, this is what that would look like” an acceptable answer?
I recently gave this answer to a question asking on how the Sleep spell works. The OP was confused about one part of it. As a counter example I wrote a homebrew spell that did work the way the OP ...
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How should we fix the Monster Lore Compendium question?
This question is currently hosting an edit war.
It was originally posted as a D&D 3.5 question, but with an assertion that the Monster Lore Compendium would be added to the d20pfsrd website. This ...
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Should this question be reopened (when we don't know if it's OP's actual question)?
Is it possible to remove the attunement property of a magical item? was originally posted in an idea-generating form that wasn't really a good fit. (See, for instance, "short version" in revision 5 of ...
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An otherwise-valid question was closed because it was posted by a suspended user; is there any reason I can't repost a similar question?
This question asked something I myself would like to know. Unfortunately, it was closed for purely administrative reasons -- viz., because (per a diamond mod's comment) the querent was a suspended ...
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My question was put on hold, even though I saw someone else ask something similar without it being closed
I have a question about my Role-playing Games Stack Exchange post: How do I test my own game online
I have edited my question now. But why did my question get put on hold, even though someone else ...
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Should we have edited a question to clarify the case to be considered after answers have been submitted?
In this question on whether a Sorcerer can twin cast Simulacrum, the querent had originally included the following line:
Usually a Sorcerer does not have access to the Simulacrum spell, but he ...
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Non-duplicate questions, with opposite correct answers, merged
See this meta question, where two questions covering similar topics got merged:
What Is The Difference, If Any, Between "Permanent", and "Until
Dispelled"?,
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Can a permanent teleportation circle ...
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How to sort out situation where two questions ask about essentially the same thing, yet answers are opposite?
What Is The Difference, If Any, Between "Permanent", and "Until Dispelled"?
Can a permanent teleportation circle be dispelled?
Answers to first one says it can't be dispelled, ...
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How to get this question re-opened?
Recently this question was asked: "Should I share personal dream sequences with the party as a DM?"
Clearly as a "should I" question it was inherently opinion based and was closed. However I think ...
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Are these “is it possible to double your proficiency twice” questions duplicates?
Is it possible to double your proficiency bonus twice?
Do features that allow you to add twice your proficiency bonus, under some other name, stack with Expertise?
I Roll To Seduce The Dragon! (or, ...
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Is “How long does published adventure X take?” an appropriate question on RPG.SE?
It would be useful (in my eyes) to users of the site to be able to find roughly how long a published adventure for a given RPG will take, for time estimation / planning in real life. This varies ...
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What is wrong with this post?
How to summon risk free with Gate
This post has received negative press, but had not been flagged as anything specific. I don't want to break any of the rules of the site, yet want my question ...
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Can we get voting unlocked on this post please?
This answer to "I think my DM is consistently faking dice rolls for saves against a specific spell; how do I call my DM out?" is a great answer to an interpersonal question. Unfortunately, presumably ...
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Why was my question about Cantrips put on hold?
My question was put on hold for being off topic. More specifically because I supposedly ask about the game.
This is not true at all and even edited it in for more clarification:
Whats the ...
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How to ask a country-specific version of a more general question?
I have a question about my Role-playing Games Stack Exchange post: How to find a tabletop RPG group open to newbies?
My question is similar to this one : Where can I find other RPG players?
I tried ...
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How should we sort out this question that was closed as a duplicate of another closed question?
The question "Were Grungs created for 5e or did they exist before this edition?" has been closed as a duplicate of a question that was closed as unclear.
However, that leaves us now with a question ...
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What to do about unsupported answers
I recently read Valley Lad's answer to the "What is an Avatar of a God?" question.
Is this answer acceptable? It doesn't seem to give any RAW, RAI or RAF interpretation, doesn't give any examples of ...
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How to make this “design combat encounter for a fighter in stealth mission” less broad?
As a DM, how can I best design a combat encounter in a stealth mission for a fighter?
I've tried to restrict the question to only deals the problem from DM side, and right now I don't know what can ...
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Why was the 'taint' tag deleted from this question?
The question in question: Is it true that that "more taint-absorbing items = less protection against taint"?
A moderate rep user created a tag that, as far as I can tell, accurately ...
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Why did this question allow one answer after hold but not mine?
I was in the middle of writing an answer to this question when it was held for being a duplicate. (This meta is not about the duplicate status, just that it was and still is held as of this meta.)
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Why was this homebrew question held as Too Broad?
This recent question was held as Too Broad, but it just as narrow in scope as many of the other good homebrew questions are. It provided one homebrew creation and asked for an evaluation. We've left ...
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What happened to get this mod notice placed on my question about the Bête?
I had asked a totally valid question with The Bête and LGBT-Questions, and after a short explanation why this was asked without an edition (because there is soo little on the topic) and a comment ...
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Missing comments on “thawing ice” question?
What spells can be used to thaw or melt ice?
My question has some comments asking for clarification that I haven't addressed, but they magically vanished just as I tried to reply to them!
I don't ...
