Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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When editing, should I make the question into the one it should be, or the one I now need?
I am writing a heavy edit to my own question: Do players know that Wizards don't wear armour?
ShadowKras mentioned the ability to make a knowledge check to determine class features and abilities. ...
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How can I respond to important information brought up in comments in my answer?
So, I'm struggling with improving my answer to this question. I've written out several major partial edits, but I keep discarding them because they all change my answer to address the way the querent ...
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What made my answer invalid?
I can't clearly understand why my answer to What reasons have the designers given for why unarmed strikes aren't 'light melee weapons'? was downvoted and deleted. How could I make the ...
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Change the question featured in the Tour
Our tour currently features Are Hags Fey or Fiends?. One of the answers featured begins with "To add to Dressy's answer ..." which might not be setting the best example of what kind of answers we ...
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Why is someone one with no specific knowledge judging the worthiness of my question?
I have a question about my Role-playing Games Stack Exchange post: What other benefits can the Mind Sphere 1st Dot have?
Why is someone who knows nothing about the game I am asking a question about ...
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Rename [videogame-role-playing] to [video-game-role-playing]
https://rpg.stackexchange.com/q/94646/1204 has come with the creation of the tag videogame-role-playing. Based on Are questions about roleplaying within a video game context on topic? roleplaying ...
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How can I make sure my unposted answer was saved?
I wrote this long answer and couldn't finish it in one sitting (attention span issues) so I figured I could just close the site and pick up the saved draft where I left off some time later. That works ...
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Problem with Accounts. Please Advise
I am actually Ruut.
However...
That e-mail account was hacked by someone from China (literally) that I used to log-in with that account; I made a new account just so I could ask new questions (as ...
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Eek! A troll in the Stack! What do I do?
I've seen a strange question and it's accumulating poor responses from its owner. Stuff like this is happening to me or someone else:
left a comment asking for a clarification, and got a response ...
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How should I provide examples of experience as support for my answer?
I attempted to answer a question about group dynamics today, which I did by talking about how I think this issue would be best resolved. I received two comments, suggesting that I should provide ...
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Why are certain chatrooms giving me a Page Not Found?
I was trying to find a chat room associated with an answer to a few different questions, but in all instances I kept getting hit with a 'Page Not Found' presumably because I lacked the 20 rep to ...
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Can I edit an answer without bumping the question?
I just made a very minor edit to my answer to this question: Can a creature swap places with another willing creature on their turn?. My only changes were syntax, changing hyphens to em-dashes. As ...
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Flagging comments for deletion: flag one or all?
This may be a bit of a small issue but I was wondering if there's any guidance on whether one should flag all comments in a thread for deletion if they're no longer helpful (or never were to begin ...
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what button makes a comment appear as an answer?
If I post a question then someone answers said question as a comment how do I say that’s the right answer, (what button do I click) so that they get the proper recognition? How do I vote a comment as ...
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An answer I flagged as very low quality was declined despite answer being of very low quality?
I flagged an answer as 'Very Low Quality,' which has a description of "This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need ...
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question determined to not be a duplicate is still marked duplicate?
https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/90590/what-rules-effectively-model-severely-over-the-top-style-of-powers-combat-and
is currently marked as a duplicate, but has been determined (post edit) to ...
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Is asking a question about the location (pg number, chapter, etc) of content in a specific book on topic?
Background -- I own and have read the Curse of Strahd, and know of some information that exists within the book but cannot for the life of me remember where I read it in the book. Short of reading ...
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Why is an answer being downvoted without any comments?
An answer has multiple downvotes but nobody has left a comment explaining what's wrong with the answer or why they downvoted. Why hasn't anyone explained their downvote?
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Why isn't it possible to delete an accepted answer?
I answered this question quite some time ago with a link that was useful to the asker at the time, but has since decayed (error 404). At the time, my answer was accepted, but it is now completely ...
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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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Is there any kind of notification mechanism to let me know when my comments are deleted?
I've left a comment to this question:
How to deal with players rejecting the question premise
The question had zero comments at the moment. Now it has zero comments as well.
Was my comment deleted? ...
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What's the actual process around [faq-proposal]s? [duplicate]
Use real headers instead of fake headers just went from faq-proposal to faq without apparent discussion about the change, and Can I send private messages to users? became an faq-proposal. I thought ...
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How can one resolve duplicate accounts?
if a person asks questions using an unregistered Profile, then creates a registered profile under the same email address, is it possible for the unregistered questions, notifications and reputation to ...
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Is there a way to request an answer from a specific user?
I am fairly sure that there is exactly one person on this site who can answer the MERP question i just posted, due to it being about a fairly obscure game system. Is there any way to get in touch with ...
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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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There seems to be only one question on this site
https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions
I only see one question on this page, is that correct?
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Is there a rpg.se compatible way to ask a question about counter organisation?
I have the following problem:
I have Pathfinder Pawns (their branding for a type of cardboard counter miniature) in about 7 boxes from different sets. Some of those boxes have the same or similar ...
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Should mods close questions using their own ad hominem against the asker as reason?
I am closing this. It's clear your real question is not about expanding the scope of back it up! in general, but about its applicability in one certain case or class of cases that you are not really ...
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Why ask if we're sure about deleting a question with answers, if it's not possible anyway?
Trying to delete question How can I turn the Kobold Hall delve into a full-fledged Adventure?, the confirmation text is:
Delete this answered question?
We do not recommend deleting questions with ...
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Why deleting a bad question/answer doesn't return reputation points?
It appears that after a bad question/answer removal the reputation points are not returned to the downvoters. Why is it so? Shouldn't it be different?
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What does it mean when it says I need “50 reputation” to comment?
I want to add a comment on a question about disability in RPGs and it won't let me without "50 reputation". What is that?
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Should I try to improve my answer even after it was selected?
Pretty much as the title. I would like to add more information and edit the organization of the answer I gave and was selected by the asker, is it bad practice? Will my answer lose the selected mark?
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We have better advice for answerers in our "On topic" page than our "How to answer" page
Our Help page "What topics can I ask about here?" has some lovely site-specific advice for answerers under the heading When replying to questions, be aware of our site guidelines:
Not everything ...
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Our "On Topic" page still implies game-recs are on topic
"What topics can I ask about here?" still says:
Do some research before asking for games that have/do X so that you're asking an answerable question - also review the site guidance on asking game ...
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Can the moderators delete comments on an answer?
The question "Can a character elect to be considered "running" or "sprinting" even if they don't exceed their walk rate?" has an accepted answer.
Another user disagrees with ...
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Why is an edit to fix a 1-character spelling mistake required to be at least 6 characters long?
Why is an edit to fix a 1-character spelling mistake required to be at least 6 characters long?
I tried to edit the first line of a good answer to correct "fulfil" into "fulfill". It seems silly that ...
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What exactly is the [problem-players] tag for?
Looking through the meta, I can only seem to find posts about people dissatisfied with problem player questions, so I'll ask here. I've always understood the problem-players tag as the tag you use ...
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Disassociating account from the rest of SE network
Role playing related topics are sometimes such, that taken out of context, or read by someone who doesn't understand the context, would seem... quaint, and not necessarily in a positive way.
Rather ...
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Questions tagged [game-recommendation] still show the old banner
Questions tagged game-recommendation on the main site appear to still get the banner defined in another meta question saying
As this is a game-recommendation question, please adhere to the FAQ, the ...
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RPG moderators behavior standards
I'm not sure if this is the proper area to post this question. Please inform me to move it where appropriate.
Is it proper for a moderator to tell a user "we're not your shrinks."?
In a "discussion" ...
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Is there a way to sort questions by ones that have higher question scores than answer scores?
Just based on what I've seen so far, it seems like people generally are more excited about upvoting answers than questions, with the effect that for most questions with a good answer, that answer ends ...
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Need help in clarifying what I'm asking for
How to design a GMPC that will not push the story ahead?
Has been closed as beeing off topic, given the reason that actually I recived many answers on something I wasn't looking for, so beeing ...
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Can we clarify the [rules-as-written] tag wiki?
Another meta answer gives one interpretation, which is different than the tag wiki, which conflicts with how I have seen the tag used, and how it has been described to me.
Can we clarify the tag wiki ...
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Is the spoiler markdown broken?
See https://rpg.stackexchange.com/a/74047/23970: Korvin and I think we've got everything right, but the spoiler hide/reveal text feature isn't working.
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Reputation breakdown
Is there a way to see how much of your reputation has been earned from the various activities? So its broken down into the points for what you have asked, what you have answered, and the other ways ...
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Is there a guide on using the Search Function?
Up in the right corner, there is a search box. I know, based on clicking on things from profiles, that there are modifiers that can be added to the search to filter the return. At the least, you can ...
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Can I please post my answer to this question that closed while I was writing it?
I'd like to post the following answer to GURPS 4E Space Combat - Hexes and Distance
but in the time it took me to write it, it got closed.
One-yard hexes are for man-to-man combat, usually in close ...
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What to do when your question gets closed as a duplicate, but you have no usable answer?
This question got closed as a duplicate. However, the "original" question is not same as mine, and has no usable answers. I tried editing my question, to make the difference more clear, but it seems ...
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Why's the review notification still showing up when I've reviewed everything?
In the site review tab right next to the help tab, it said (3) and indicates there are 3 posts to review.
I open it and all I get are zeroes indicating no questions to review.
I go back, refresh ...
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Did I really asked how to get around Healers Armor limitations?
I am a bit confused about what to do with my question Optimizing Torso/Body slot when restricted to light armor, no metal with high WIS.
I was expecting the answerers to suggest cool items existing ...
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