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Is profanity allowed on RPG.SE?

After discussion, the mods believe we should stick to the standard SE "no expletives" policy to promote a friendlier and more civil site. As on English.SE, exceptions can be made for actual technica …
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Is this site for experts, or not?

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

coming up a lot, and there's guidance specific to each question - but I can't help but think these are suffering from a similar root problem that we might be able to give meaningful guidance on in the FAQ … Return to FAQ Index …
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How does all the various Stack Exchange functionality work?

The FAQ If you want to know how asking/answering, tagging, voting, bounties, or whatever works, all the answers are linked from the Meta Stack Exchange master FAQ question: FAQ for Stack Exchange sites … Return to FAQ Index …
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Are character build or optimization questions on topic?

I always like saving categories of questions - if we can. Character optimization and build questions are popular on forums. The problem with them is that in general, they tend towards three things t …
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Should I be requesting people answer the question independently?

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Is homebrew an acceptable answer to a question?

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How should we use Community Wiki? [2016]

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Why are site comments being deleted?

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Are questions about alignment on topic?

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Are questions about alignment on topic?

Only specific kinds of alignment questions are on topic. There are a variety of kinds of alignment questions, some of which can be constructively handled by our site and some that can not. There's not …
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Can I send private messages to users?

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How is the [system-agnostic] tag supposed to be used?

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

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