Community FAQ

For Role-playing Games Stack Exchange

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Asking questions

• How do we ask and answer subjective questions?

• What kind of questions can I ask here?

  • Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic? [2015]

  • Are tool recommendation questions on topic?

  • Are questions about alignment on topic?

  • Are character build or optimization questions on topic?

  • Are campaign research questions on topic? [2012]

  • Are "list questions" on topic?

• I want to ask for recommendations, but that's off topic. Is there any way to ask my question?

• I've been told my question is better suited to a forum, but where should I go?

• Should I use a narrow system tag, or use a broader tag?

Writing answers

• Is homebrew an acceptable answer to a question?

• Should I be requesting people answer the question independently?

• How do we handle a desire to challenge the frame of a question?

Comments

• Why are site comments being deleted?

• Should users refrain from answers (or partial answers) in comments?

• Why is an answer being downvoted without any comments?

Etiquette

• Can we affirm that RPG.SE embraces a plurality of playstyles?

• Is this site for experts, or not?

• Is profanity allowed on RPG.SE?

• When a Question Changes Completely, Should it be a New Question?

Editing and formatting

• Don't signal your edits in text

• Is there a functional purpose to putting things in code text here?

• Use real headers instead of fake headers

Community moderation and curation

• Why was my question closed as too broad, unclear, or opinion-based?

• How to deal with questions that just don't understand the scope of the RPG landscape?

• How to deal with feedback questions about house-rules?

• What should I do about spam questions?

• How should we use Community Wiki? [2016]

Miscellaneous

• How does all the various Stack Exchange functionality work?

• Can I send private messages to users?

External links

• Good Subjective, Bad Subjective

• Writing the Perfect Question by Jon Skeet

• How to Ask Questions the Smart Way

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