Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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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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Why can't someone link their game in their question when it's useful but non-critical?
Inspired by How do I get my game reviewed?
and in particular in response to
We also don't want people to link their games here, unless the game's content itself is material to answering the ...
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The site's availability to newcomers seems startlingly low
I'm new to this site and to RPG Stackexchange where I have been spending my time so far. I only have a moderate experience with DND and most of my friends have none. I've been looking for a reliable ...
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How best to incorporate a comment into an answer?
Two comments to this answer would, I think, be nice to incorporate into the answer proper. Is there a way to do this wholesale, or do I effectively need to re-create each of the commenter's references ...
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What if someone asked my question and it has been answered, but I don't understand the answer?
I have a question that has been asked before by another member (see here).
There is an answer, which has been accepted as well and I think it would probably help me to solve my problem as well, but ...
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I want to ask for recommendations, but that's off topic. Is there any way to ask my question?
Recommendation questions have been off-topic since August 2015. If I need a recommendation, how can I get help now?
Return to the FAQ Index
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What are the criteria for the "Curious" Badge?
The "Curious" Badge is awarded when you "ask a good question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record." What is meant by "good question" in this? It's not the score of 25 required ...
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How should I have addressed this old comment answer?
On When to apply XP in Pathfinder? there is a comment answer which, unfortunately, I think is an important answer because it provides the only RAW information on the topic. This information is not ...
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Are the game-rec guidelines strictly equivalent to GS/BS?
GS/BS applies to everything subjective all the time across all stack exchanges and is one of our most frequently linked posts, to the point that we have a highly supported proposal to get a shortcut ...
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How can I link directly to one answer in a question?
I spent some time looking for and mousing over some answers in multi-answer questions, hoping to arrive at a "properties" tab that give me a link to the answer, which is mid to lower page, not the ...
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Should I skip review-queue items that I've already handled normally?
Just now I opened a question, saw something from a new poster that didn't meet guidelines, gave a down-vote and a helpful comment on how to fix. Then I noticed new review items, so I jumped into the ...
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Would this be a duplicate?
I want to ask a question that is nearly identical to Is there a spell managing program/app for D&D 3.5e? however about Pathfinder instead of 3.5
I am aware the two systems are very alike but I ...
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Why do some of my questions have a (-2) to reputation?
How do I get -2 Reputation for some of my questions? They are sincere questions. And I don't have the reputation to tag this with reputation.
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How do you 25 point bounty?
This... has a 25 point bounty? What's up with that? Is that a thing?
If it is a thing, how do I do it? Bountying seems to start at 50 if I approach it the normal way.
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Do we or do we not tag based on the kind of expert we want to attract?
I have in the past been told that a question has to/should have a tag because, even though the tag doesn't really describe the question, experts in the tag would be interested in/useful for answering ...
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Commenting on the background information
Across StackExchange, I quite often use the commenting function when I want to add something that I feel may well be relevant to the poster, but doesn't answer his question (as asked) so will probably ...
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How do you flag/upvote comments on election material?
I'd think you couldn't but there is an upvoted comment by @Emrakul on @WaxEagle's nomination post. Is there a place other than the nomination screen where you're supposed to look at these? Will it ...
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I've been told my question is better suited to a forum, but where should I go?
I asked a question that got closed for not being suited for the Q&A format that RPG.SE uses, and was told that my question would work better on a discussion forum.
Where can I find an RPG ...
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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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Is there any way to just get rid of the RPG profile without the others?
I'm really frustrated, and a bit stuck. At the end of the day, posting on the RPG stack only ends up in aggravation. Can anyone tell me how to delete just the RPG profile without effecting the Stack ...
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How do I stop getting notifications from this stack exchange?
I'll spare you all the rant but I don't like this stack exchange anymore and haven't for several years. The obvious solution was to stop reading it.
But I do use other stack exchanges. And sometimes ...
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Rename the M&M edition tags to be properly hyphenated
As a result of Do we need more Mutants and masterminds edition tags? we now have a couple of Mutants and Masterminds edition tags: m-and-m2e and m-and-m3e.
By the convention of basically every other ...
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Whose Law do we follow?
Whose copyright rules do we abide by here?
Wikipedia's list of parties to international copyright treaties outlines five major international copyright treaties, which apply in various combinations to ...
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Am I overstepping any boundaries by deleting irrelevant passages from a question?
In regards to the question In what order are creatures affected by the Sleep spell?, the asker had a sentence in the initial revision that stated that he was confused about the bugbear chief's Heart ...
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Answering My Own Question With A Self-Made Homebrew
What if,
1. No one has really given an answer to my question (or no answer worked)
2. My group figured out a homebrew solution on our own and played it.
3. That answer was the best and solved the ...
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Request for reopening a post on the following grounds
I would like a post reopened I had put on hold for "unclear what you're asking" here:How do the Injury and Death mechanics work (Flow Chart)
I fear I will get the same response here as I assume it ...
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Blood and Smoke to Vampire the Requiem 2e [duplicate]
This is a follow up to this
Please synomise (or delete) [blood-and-smoke] with [vampire-the-requiem-2e]
can we please ,migrate synomise the blood-and-smoke to (I believe that's the tag suggested by ...
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The nested list formatting doesn't seem to work and isn't part of the official documentation
Official documentation here
I'm not sure how to make nested lists work. It looks like the provided syntax shouldn't work, because it conflicts with code-spans (also signaled by 4 space indenting). ...
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Instant comment deletion
I am fully aware that comments are temporary means to communicate and improve a question or answer. Please don't mark this as a duplicate to the appropriate meta post, I have read all of them.
This ...
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How can I reduce my chance of Arcane Spell Failure? [closed]
So, I recently read Brain, mxyzplk, and CRoss's excellent paper which can be found here, in Brian's answer. I migrate through the different divisions of the RPG space when performing different tasks, ...
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The 'creating meaningful relationships' question was reopened and cleaned up too soon
I'm referring to this question: How to create meaningful relationships with NPCs
The question's been mod-reopened from its unclear state already, and all comments deleted. I have no idea what has ...
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How to narrow down game-recommendation questions?
How to deal with questions that just don't understand the scope of the RPG landscape? covers the (somewhat persistent) problem we have with game-recommendation questions, and what members of the ...
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Are Non-Problem Based Questions Acceptable on the Main Site?
Recently I posted a question which was closed, if I understand correctly, because it was asked out of a desire to have a specific, narrow topic explained to me rather than asking out of a desire to ...
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My question is not answered there. How do I get rid of the blue banner?
Someone thought this question could have an answer on this another question.
It hasn't.
Actually, the latter question is about splitting dice and dodges in Vampire, while the one I asked is about ...
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Why would this question be closed for being subjective?
So, I tried writing a question with the title: "What's the point of risk, or the advantage of avoiding death, in games that let you return at the same level?"
And as soon as I moved my cursor to the ...
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How should I have asked?
I have a problem. I need to know if there is a possibility to use gold to improve my character without buying magic items or using a wish. Actually I know that there is at least one combination of ...
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We need a [dungeons-and-dragons-5e] synonym, please and thank you!
I just realised that part of why we've been getting 5e questions tagged dungeons-and-dragons instead of dnd-5e is because someone typing in "dungeo…" isn't going to see the 5e tag pop up.
I would do ...
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Should I reword a question or ask a new one, if it's not getting useful answers?
I asked a question about spec-ing npcs a while back, and I realize that I still don't really have an answer I like. The problem I'm having is either I make enemies that can easily tear the head off a ...
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Why are minor edits discouraged?
From https://rpg.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit :
Try to make the post substantively better when you edit, not just change a single character. Tiny, trivial edits are discouraged.
So, ...
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Cleaning up the Mess of cleaning up the mess of wod tag metas
There are 3 meta questions about clearing up the mess of WoD Tags.
Shall we review the various World of Darkness tags' use?
Clearing up White Wolf World of Darkness tags
Clean up tagging for &...
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Tag synonym request: [storytelling-system] - > [nwod]
The storytelling-system tag is a relic from a much earlier idea of WoD tagging; there never were any games that used the Storytelling system that were not also nwod games, and with the subsequent ...
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Vanished comment - how do I find out what happened?
I thought left a lengthy comment under an answer to this question:
Without a magic item economy, what is gold for?
Which now seems to have vanished. There's no record of my either posting it (or a ...
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Synonym [nwod-god-machine] to [new-world-of-darkness-2e]
As discussed in Lets get a clear consensus on the use of [nwod] vs [nwod-god-machine],
now that Onyx Path has officially rebranded the God Machine Rules Update as the second edition of New World of ...
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Please synomise (or delete) [blood-and-smoke] with [vampire-the-requiem-2e]
The book/line nWoD: Blood and Smoke a styx chronicle
is set to recieve a new name and cover (and no other major changed),
and be rerelease as Vampire the Requiem 2nd edition
The only user of vtr-...
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Mod-tool request: change [npc] to [npcs], [villain] to [villains]
Can we get npc changed to npcs and and villain to villains?
It just struck me that npc and villain are singular when most every other tag we have of this kind is categorical/plural: monsters, races, ...
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"Share a link to this question via e-mail, , , or ."
Recently I've noticed that at the bottom of questions, there is a rather odd message:
I imagine it's supposed to say something like "...via email, Twitter, Reddit, or Facebook", but it seems like ...
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Synonymize [loot] -> [treasure]
I just noticed we have both a loot tag and a treasure tag. They both mean the same thing - providing or acquiring items - and four questions are tagged with both.
Could we make loot a synonym of ...
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Is there a tag for various around-the-table issues?
I found that there is are not many tags that relate to around the table issues that do not directly relate to the game. I asked this question, but found myself at disadvantage when choosing ...
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I want to write a Q&A: how do I go about doing that?
While I'm rather new to the website, I've picked up quite a bit regarding one particular topic (the Rainbow Servant prestige class for 3.5th edition D&D), and I would like to write this ...
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Holy Glitch, Batman!
The Morningstar RSS feed post form Wizard's RSS feed is back with a vengeance. The feed post will show up in the chat RSS feed hourly if not more often. What can we do to address the issue?
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