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Agree with Brian on its being a frame challenge, but you're correct that as 5e picks up the current ed RAW junkies are going to have a harder time of it, as many answers to such questions to the designers … Because of this shift of tone, you're right that people demanding RAW are more often going to be left out in the cold, and they should be asking for Good Subjective answers. …

If you can prove there is no answer, answer in the negative. If you just don't know, but think it unlikely, don't answer. Unanswered questions are fine, if there is no answer - in fact, adding an an …

Answers that completely don't back it up may get deleted, post-noticed, etc. But ones that back it up poorly will get more down than up votes, and those that do it well will get more up than down. …

Here on RPG.SE, we expect all answers to meet the criteria put forth in the Stack Overflow blog post Good Subjective, Bad Subjective. This means answers should "Back It Up!" … a -1 AC and and..." because that sounds good in your head, that's not fine, and you can expect downvotes and delete votes, because we want to leverage the actual experience of our community for solid answers …

All of those are acceptable. There’s no “right” answer, it depends on how much work you want to put into it, how much rep you have, etc.

It's up to you Some people prefer answers that are to the point and answer the question. … Otherwise, it's fine for them to have different kinds of answers to pull from. …

For some questions, answers from those might be appropriate and for others they may not be. …

Yeah, just identify yourself as such when you post and it's fine. If anyone gets obnoxious about it (shills posting questions to be answered, general lording-over), the community will just start down …

Yeah there's a huge war out there between people that believe in the "threefold" approach and people that hate them... Best to avoid it when possible. It always turns into a semantics debate.

I agree; people go in and add comments and vote and edit their previous answers, bumping an otherwise undesirable answer back up to the top. …

So you have to expect you'll get answers that come from the dominant value system gamers attracted to that game share, and that those answers will be found useful by others. … Those other answers are being found helpful by others even if not by you, so they have a place, and they don't cost you anything. …

Remember the game-rec rules. You have to have done it or seen it done. Given that criterion, and assuming the question itself doesn't put it out of scope by saying "no really, something published" t …

I've put the question on hold and have only not deleted the answers because I am a kind and generous person. …

You're doing what will answer the question the best. In most cases, this is neither essay nor newspaper form - believe it or not (I know some of our users don't) but many questions can be answered in …

Usually, the specific question. Titles have to be short and usually don't take into account the details. In addition, you could submit an edit to the title to add "on a grick" and voila it's all goo …