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What to do when an edit guesses the system being used rather than waiting for the querent to clarify?
Note: As of September 3rd, 2021, this policy has been removed
Following the results of Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy this policy is no longer in effect. New guidance pending.
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Re-revisiting the "don't guess the system" policy [duplicate]
Note: As of September 3rd, 2021, this policy has been removed
Following the results of Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy this policy is no longer in effect. New guidance pending.
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Should I use a narrow system tag, or use a broader tag?
I am playing D&D 4e and I have a question about how I can create an excellent pirate adventure. Since people have pirate adventures in other RPG systems, and Stack Exchange is about useful answers,...
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Should we be tagging individual spells?
I came across a question today tagged with the (partial) name of the specific spell the question contemplates. Now I like a tiny-hut as much as the next sheep, and I do believe in emergent folksonomy.
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What qualifies as guessing on a system?
Two questions in quick succession,
Do Hexblade warlocks choose their spells from the Hexblade spell list or the warlock spell list? and What’s the right calculation for the Homunculus’s hit points ...
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The [rules] tag has just been burninated (again), let's blacklist it
I just burninated the rules tag. It had no wiki, and appeared to be uselessly broad, since almost every question on here is about rules.
I'm leaving this question here to record this burnination. If ...
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Are our implicit-information tagging practices becoming a problem?
We have some tags that seem to regularly get used such that they imply information about the post, which isn’t actually stated in the post itself.
our various system tags, including [system-agnostic]....
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Proposed tag synonyms for [dnd4.0]
dnd4e, dnd 4.0, 4e should all be expanded to "Dungeons and Dragons 4e"
The tag wiki could include instructions on how to search the community wiki for hints, links to the compendium, and the rules ...
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Can we color system tags to emphasize that they're different and "more meaningful"?
So, this is kind of an "asking about a problem I don't have" feature, but I wanted to float it out there. As an answerer of unfrequented systems, I've noticed that many questions follow what's come to ...
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Make it possible for certain tags (like game tags) to always appear first
As I brought up in the comments of this question, it would be great if it were possible to somehow have a specified tag always be listed first on a post, or if certain special tags (in RPG.SE's case, ...
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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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Is the Only-Tag Test for meta-tag-ness broken here?
We've talked about meta tags a lot here. One thing that the last round highlighted is that we have a lot of tags that are impossible to use without a system tag. It's been said that tags like spells ...
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Should questions include System/Setting in title if tagged with system/setting?
For example: "WFRP2e--Does Tzenntch bully Nurgle, if so, can he be reported, and to who?"
Then tag the question with WFRP and religion-and-deities. My thought is that the question lead ...
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When is it OK to assume the system without it being considered a guess?
This question was asked by a new user today. The terminology is clearly referring to D&D 5e, and they even link a related 5e Q&A.
However, I still proceeded to ask the user that we cannot ...
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What rules/guidance do we want to give for homebrew review questions, if any?
There seemed to be a strong consensus in this question that we're not happy with how homebrew review is working on the site right now, and that the way forward is to get some additional rules around ...
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Could we have a separate close reason for missing system tag?
A lot of the times we close a question for being unclear, it's because it's missing a system tag. I would guess that's the case for over half of our closed-as-unclear questions. With this in mind, ...
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Does the [system-agnostic] tag conflict with system specific tags?
In this question, the asker tagged his question with system-agnostic. He also tagged it with dnd-3.5e and dungeons-and-dragons.
Is this contradictory or in some way contrary to the spirit of the ...
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Time to retire the [rules-as-written] tag?
We have recently seen some issues around site users being unclear on how to use the rules-as-written tag and some unpleasantness broke out on the topic. Sadly, this has been happening for more than ...
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How is the [system-agnostic] tag supposed to be used?
Coming off my discussion about this meta I have realized that I have no idea how the system-agnostic tag is supposed to be used correctly. Or, I thought I did but that not everyone agrees. Or maybe ...
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The [rules-as-written] tag is a good tag, but we've made it sick. Let's cure it
rules-as-written has two purposes right now:
"this question is about the rules as written"
"answer must obey special rules"
The latter makes it a meta tag. Meta tags are never, in the long run, a ...
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Do we want a [total-party-kill]?
I recently noticed that we have a total-party-kill tag. It seems reasonably useful, if only to link together a bunch of related questions, but it's currently only used on three questions (and I added ...
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"Magus" is a bad tag - let's fix it!
the tag magus is described as "Pathfinder class that blends martial prowess with spell casting, from the book Ultimate Magic.", yet that is very very system centric. The term magus/maga is also used ...
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What benefit does the "rules-lawyering" tag bring to our community?
Taking a look at the tag rules-lawyering, I wonder what benefit it brings to our community.
Here is how I see it being used in pathfinder/dnd-3.5e questions:
"I want to get correct answers."
Here and ...
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Does adding the system tag to this question violate the "never guess the system" policy?
This question: Would Zorquan be a Unity domain patron?
As I said in a comment, given that the question includes "2e Forgotten Realms" (provided for background context for lore purposes) and "we're ...
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Is it acceptable to add the [dnd-5e] tag to questions about D&D Beyond?
Following the results of Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy this meta now refers to an outdated policy.
The following questions were tagged with dnd-beyond, and did not mention D&D 5e ...
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Start retagging the WoD questions! (aka "Editors: the Retaggening")
About a week ago, we discussed how to sort out the World of Darkness tags in Clean up tagging for "World of Darkness" related questions. The question's been settled for about a week, and it ...
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Is [system-agnostic] a meta tag?
system-agnostic has been bugging me lately, and I think it's because it's become a meta tag, at least in how it's commonly used now.
In The Death of Meta Tags, they're described thus:
meta-tags […...
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Do we want a [homebrew-review] tag separate from the [homebrew] tag?
The vast majority of the homebrew questions we get are asking us to review their homebrew, either directly ("Is this balanced?") or indirectly ("What LA should this race have?" or "How much should ...
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Should the [gm] tag be burninated?
I've been looking through the gm tag, and it looks to me like it's not a particularly useful tag. Here are my thoughts:
The tag is not specific enough, as it doesn't say much about the question.. ...
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Has [system-recommendation] grown too big for its britches?
We occasionally get adventure/encounter/setting/campaign recommendation questions that are asking for a subjective evaluation, not just objectively-identifiable features. They're infrequent enough ...
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New enchantment tag, not sure about this
So the enchantment tag was created today, and assigned to five questions. We already have conjuration (Conjuration spirited away), divination, illusion, and necromancy tags, so it’s not without ...
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What distinction is being drawn between house-rules and homebrew?
While thinking about Does stuff strapped to the outside of a Backpack count toward the total weight a backpack can carry? I ended up looking at both the house-rules and homebrew tag descriptions.
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Lets get a clear consensus on the use of [nwod] vs [nwod-god-machine]
There is a ongoing issue with the tagging of the various Editions of the World of Darkness Lines. See:
Shall we review the various World of Darkness tags' use?
Clearing up White Wolf World of ...
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Do we need the System-Agnostic Tag?
Is the system-agnostic necessary anymore? We have quite a number of questions tagged with it, but does the tag actually add value?
I'm asking because I recently had system-agnostic identified as one ...
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Should we get rid of [3pp]?
Third party publishers themselves are awesome, so their existence isn't in question.
Rather, I'm wondering about the 3pp tag. Ostensibly it's meant to indicate the question's referencing third party ...
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Should this question about "the Wildemount Chronugy subclass ability chronal shift" be tagged as D&D 5e without OP specifying it?
Straight-forward: this question has caused an edit war and a close-reopen-close war. The argument for tagging and reopening is:
The splat book only exists in DnD-5e, so it's not guessing – Pureferret
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Is the "system-agnostic" tag really necessary?
Looking over the questions that have been tagged as system-agnostic I have to question what value the tag really has. The questions all are phrased so no system in ...
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A proposal for moving forward with Rules as Written
With a lack of clear data on intended use being a major sticking point in the recent discussion on the rules-as-written tag, we’d like to make a proposal that should gather useful data on how often ...
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Revisiting whether D&D Next needs its own separate tag
As D&D Next and eventually 5e were coming out there was a discussion about whether or not questions from the playtest should be tagged separately from questions about the edition upon its release (...
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Why do I need to specify my game system, and how do I best do it?
I asked a question, but it was closed, with users asking what system
I was asking about. What do they mean, and why do I need to specify
this?
Someone said my question was missing a system tag. What ...
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Synonimise [rules-lawyering] to [rules-as-written], then destroy it
From this meta Q from 2013, the rules-lawyering tag is for questions about engaging in that practice, or people doing so. It isn't for asking about strict rules interpretations; that's rules-as-...
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Why do we use [Published-Adventures] instead of more specific tags?
One criteria i've seen for whether a tag is worth having is whether someone could be an expert in that topic. I find it difficult to believe someone could be an expert in all [published-adventures] ...
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How Should We Tag D&D Versions?
Recently discussed in the Moldvay question, but this keeps getting hashed out in weird sub-questions so I thought I'd re-ask this more general question somewhere it can be found in the future.
How do ...
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Should we tag for play style and mode, more often?
The comments on How to handle wealthy player characters as a GM? got a bit out of hand, but it gave me an idea...
The contention seems to be between these two perspectives on how to use system-...
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burninate new-gm tag
The new-gm is a meta-tag and should be burninated:
The criteria:
Only Tag: If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag.
new-gm doesn't really describe any area of ...
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What to do when encountering a non-system tag that describes a system?
This discussion is inspired by Magus Spell Scars. The question doesn't clearly state which system it uses in the text, which is normally a case of Don't guess the system. But the author tagged the ...
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Cross-system Fate tag protocol
This question started out tagged fate-core and fate-accelerated. It was retagged with just fate, and then the two original tags were re-added.
Now, as I understand it Fate Core and Fate Accelerated ...
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What are the meta tags?
Everyone should read The death of Meta Tags. In order to consoldiate some questions and try to look at it holisitically I thought one question is appropriate.
Please one possible meta tag per answer. ...
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Can we rename [dnd-next] to [dnd-next-playtest] before it's released?
The 5th release of D&D is due for release in "Summer 2014", which means sometime soon. As far as I'm aware, it does not have a definite name yet: it might be D&D 5th Edition, or retain its ...
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Why do we ask for the body of the question to demonstrate the tags it uses?
In a few questions I've raised in the past, it's been pointed out to me that it is not enough to just include the tags you categorize the Q into, but also call it out in the body of the Q itself. I've ...
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