Questions tagged [tags]
For questions discussing tags and their usage.
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Should this question about flying a broom be closed for lacking a system tag?
The question Flying a broom, light activity? lacks a system tag and is currently closed as unclear. Should it remain closed, or do we have enough information to guess the system?
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[strategy]: burninate or fix?
The strategy tag is in bad shape. It's low volume, only 24 questions (14 open, 10 closed) so this is like cleaning the base boards behind the fridge, but big or small, we clean things when we see they ...
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Should we remove the [mutants-and-masterminds] tag from questions about a specific edition?
This is a follow-up from Fixing umbrella tag of mutants-and-masterminds. There are currently 51 questions tagged with mutants-and-masterminds. Only 9 of them don't also have a mutants-and-masterminds-...
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Fixing umbrella tag of mutants-and-masterminds
I recently noticed that mutants-and-masterminds was largely being used in conjunction with either the mutants-and-masterminds-2e or mutants-and-masterminds-3e tags, but not discussing the overarching ...
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The tag wiki/excerpt for [mouse-guard] should probably be updated
The tabletop RPG system Mouse Guard (based on the comics of the same name) appears to have 2 editions. The first edition of the game was published in 2008, and the second edition was released in 2015.
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Should I have removed the [pathfinder-2e] tag from this question?
This question was asked.
When I read it, it seemed to be a general one, and most of the advice was system agnostic, so I removed the [pathfinder-2e] tag and added the [system-agnostic] tag.
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Can I add a [spellbook] tag?
At the time of this posting there are 1,406 posts (374 questions) about "spellbook" on RPG.SE. This is an area, along with copying of spells, that is a common source of questions at least ...
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What are reasons to remove (or "burninate") a tag?
I have seen multiple discussions here about if this or that tag should be removed as it has outlived its utility.
I understand that the objective of tags is to help attract expertise to a certain ...
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Should we make plural (or singular) synonyms for all common tags?
Some tags use the singular, for example class-feature, others use the plural, for example magic-items.
I never can remember which has which, and when you manually type a tag in the search box, and end ...
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The [character] tag is in serious need of help, else it may need to be burninated
I found myself browsing through the character tag, and I think it needs a lot of help. I'm not sure it can be saved, but I'll outline the problems I'm seeing and maybe the community can come up with ...
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Should the Glyph of Warding questions get a spell-specific tag?
There is a general discussion if we want spell tags or not over here: Should we be tagging individual spells?, that concluded spell specific tags should be avoided in general.
Wish and Simulacrum are ...
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Disabilities tag?
How would you handle a disabilities tag for questions on blindness/deafness? I mean that eventually someone is going to want to create it anyway.
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When is the [sexuality] tag an appropriate tag for a question?
This question is in response to @nitsua60's comment on my old question. (I figure Meta is a better place for the discussion than comments on an old question)
Background for everyone else is that the ...
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Is there any way to be notified of tag synonym proposals?
As I am writing this, votes are being collected to synonym ancestry and ancestries to races, in response to this meta discussion: Should we have an [ancestry] tag?
In my two years or so active here, ...
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Do we really need distinct tags for [attack] and [attack-roll]?
attack-roll:
For questions about attack rolls, a randomized event (usually performed with dice) that determines whether one character can strike another character or entity.
attack:
For questions ...
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Should we have an [ancestry] tag?
In Pathfinder 2e, races have been replaced by ancestries. Functionally, though, ancestries and races perform the same role.
When editing this question about PF2e ancestry ability boosts, I ran into a ...
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Should we reject tag wiki edits that improve a tag wiki for a newly created tag that we think shouldn't exist?
Sometimes we think that a tag should not exist when we see an excerpt/wiki edit when someone tries to establish the tag for the first time. At the same time, should we reject such an edit when it ...
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Can we provide a good tag wiki for [mental-health]?
A bunch of questions on this site involve discussions around mental health (namely, I found this one), so I've created the tag mental-health.
It's a subject that needs to be handled with care (not ...
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How to tag Strixhaven questions?
So, the D&D 5e adventure book/campaign setting Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos is coming out December 7, and we're likely to be getting a few questions about it afterwards. It's a book about ...
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When you have multiple gold tag badges, how does the system decide which to use when closing as duplicate, and does it matter?
I have gold badges in dnd-5e and spells. My dnd-5e gets used the most, however, just now I voted to close as duplicate a question with both tags, and the closure message listed spells as the gold tag ...
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How to best name and describe a tag that handles drugs?
Drugs are a staple of RPGs set in a dark future (cyberpunk, shadowrun, fallout) or dark world (chronicles-of-darkness, world-of-darkness, call-of-cthulhu). Many of these games also have rules about ...
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Does the usage guidance for the [closed-questions] tag on this Meta need to be updated?
The usage guidance for closed-questions says:
This tag is for posts looking to raise meta discussions about specific closed questions, as well as for questions about the concept of a closed question ...
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What should I do when a question does not specify the game system being used?
Occasionally, a user will post a question that includes neither a system tag nor an explicit statement of the system being played.
Since we no longer have a policy of immediately closing such ...
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Do we need the [rpg-pop-culture] tag when we have [history-of-gaming]?
The tag description for rpg-pop-culture says:
For questions related to the pop culture surrounding RPGs. The pop culture may be famous events, real-life legends, well-known lore, or other pop culture ...
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Should we make the recommendation tags throw a warning or error?
A while back there was a revamp of the ask page which introduced a lot more per site customization. Of relevance here is that we can have the page react to tags:
Tag-related error messages and ...
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Which questions with Aegis do lack the [Aegis] tag?
Apparently, the tag aegis is currently only used for some 19 questions about a pathfinder-1e feature. Which is confusing since there are 54 questions that use the word but not the tag
I see questions ...
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The [bloodline] tag is being used for two completely different concepts in different RPGs
bloodline is a little problematic, as it is a concept in three quite large games and neither shares anything but the name:
vampire-the-masquerade has Bloodlines as "sub-Clans". For example, ...
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Tags with at least 10 questions that need usage guidance
I went through and looked for tags with no usage guidance/blank wiki excerpts having at least 10 questions on the site. Here they are:
bloodline 26 questions
immediate-actions 23 questions
move-...
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Should we change the tag [arcane-focus] to [spellcasting-focus]?
We currently have 87 questions tagged arcane-focus of which 79 are cotagged with dnd-5e, the other 8 being pathfinder-1e.
In D&D 5e, the general category is spellcasting focus, with arcane focus ...
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Which tag should we use when OP thinks they are asking about a house rule but it is actually an official optional rule?
The description for house-rules states:
House rules are small fan-created additions and replacements to core rules in a rules set, and this tag should be used when there are locally-created rules at ...
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Let's fix the [arcane-archer] tag!
The arcane-archer tag has a quite wrong tag description at the time of this post:
The Arcane Archer is a fighter subclass in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition (published in Xanathar's Guide to ...
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An asker seems to have been misled about the system they were using. Should we do anything about it?
There is a curious case that resulted in bunch of questions that are tagged with one system, while the OP was confused about workings of a different system - and some of these tags were applied by OP ...
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Watched and ignored is not displaying for me
I have two watched tags and 85+ ignored tags.
As of checking the site today (06-09-21 PT), the process of highlighting watched tags and blurring ignored tags does not appear to be functioning the way ...
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Is it possible to search for edits with a certain content, specifically adding a tag?
In the spirit of good faith, here are my fears and weaknesses.
People mistake system-specific questions for rarely-encountered systems as either system-agnostic or dnd-5e questions about once every ...
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Can we reapply the Pathfinder 2e tag to this Pathfinder 2e question?
Razzle-Dazzle and success vs Blindness is asking about two Pathfinder 2e features, linking to the Pathfinder 2e reference document for both features (2e.aonprd.com; ...
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Should we add [volume] as a synonym to the [3d-space] tag? Or would a separate [volume] tag be a good addition?
We have a 3d-space tag which applies to all kinds of various things. Should we add a synonym of volume to it for the more than 60 questions about volume calculation?
Or would a separate volume tag be ...
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On a suggested edit, what is indicated by a tag being both red and green?
I recently reviewed a suggested edit and this is what I saw:
As you can see, spells appears twice, once as though it were removed, and once as though it were added. Is this a bug? What does this mean?...
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Should we refrain from tag-only edits to recent questions that also need substantial body edits?
Suppose we have a new question that needs substantial body edits and some tags. If I do not intend to do the substantial body edits immediately, should I refrain from adding the needed tags?
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Generic Tags should be Generic
Most Tags generally are meant to be generic. That means that they should not be specific to any one game unless they need to be specific to a game. Such a game-specific tag is aspects belonging to ...
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Is the [simulacrum] tag a necessary addition?
I notice that the simulacrum tag has been added again. My personal opinion is that it is unnecessary. Seeing as the user who has added it most recently rolled back my standard procedure removal edit, ...
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Get the SE system to enforce system tags [duplicate]
I'm new here, but I've already picked up that Standard Policy is to tag questions with the system that you're playing in, and that the vast majority of questions can be closed a "Lacking details&...
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How did it come about that so many of our tag excerpts start with "for questions about..."?
More often than not, our tag wiki excerpts start with “for questions about topic so-and-so”.
How did this “for questions about...” thing come about as such a common excerpt format? Why do we use ...
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There is currently no tag for questions about game-specific terminology. How should we address this, if at all?
Currently the keywords tag is restricted to questions about D&D 4e, but it seems like it could be expanded to address the usage of game-specific terminology in other games.
There is also the ...
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How to use the [lore] tag correctly?
In my question Do external, non-innate methods exist in Faerûn circa 1489 DR to situationally alter the efficacy of spellcasting?, I attempted to ask about in-universe phenomena that affect ...
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What tag should I use for a question about "5e: HARDCORE MODE"
There is a thing called "5e: HARDCORE MODE" which is basically a set of house rules for the D&D 5th edition. I want to ask a couple of questions about this thing, but I hesitate how to ...
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How did I get the dnd-5e tag badge when I'm ignoring all the dnd tags I can find? [duplicate]
Just what it says on the tin -- I just received the "dnd-5e" tag badge, but I haven't answered a "dnd-5e" question in a couple months, because I started ignoring them to curtail ...
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Is this question better tagged house-rules or homebrew?
I am considering a revision to the D&D 5e mechanics of maintaining barbarian rage. I consider this to be a small change to a specific rule and thus fitting of the house-rules tag, rather than ...
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Discussion on thread "Artificer Eldritch Cannon Protector temp hit points and Wildshape"
Currently there is an edit war with regards to the [dnd-5e] tag on this question: Artificer Eldritch Cannon Protector temp hit points and Wildshape
The question is unambiguously about D&D 5e, but ...
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5e question that doesn't have a system tag
So I saw this question today: Does Favored by the Gods work with counterspell rolls?
I believe this is obviously a D&D 5e question because:
In the question it says "5e"
It also mentions ...
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We have about 30 questions mentioning Path of War that are not tagged as such. What should we do about them?
Using this search query, one can find slightly more than 30 questions that clearly mention Path of War, an alternative ruleset for Pathfinder published by Dreamscarred Press, but that are not tagged ...
