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What do Official Sources Say? For: Someone working on the Numenera vidoe game seems to think it's a diacritic. Against: I couldn't find a single instance of a diacritic on the site, including the " …

Any discussion that actually fits the parameters of this site — which tends to be rules questions and play advice (not game reviews, critical reading, or abject mockery) — would be de-facto normalizing …

The five-minute window is a compromise. Comments shouldn't be editable because StackExchange doesn't want comments to be "first-class citizens." Perpetual editing would highly encourage viewable his …

This is totally a legitimate way to use the site. It's probably good to mention that you are the author in your profile. You don't need to write this in your posts, though: Disclaimer: I'm curre …

Start by linking to relevant content that already exists. This is both more visible and more helpful than other kinds of "advertising." "Hey, how many crits could a bugbear chuck if a bugbear could c …

In my experience: Show them a specific example that addresses a problem they're having, then lightly explain the format. "Yeah, simulating probabilities on exploding dice in Burning Wheel wasa real …

Good intent Wikipedia has a rule, "Assume good faith." It doesn't always work for them, but it's a big part of trying to avoid rudeness and infighting. Filtered through our own site's viewpoint, I thi …

If RPG SE is going to host discussion about such games, what's an appropriate way to at communicate to users that an RPG is by and for white nationalists? …

I didn't downvote your answer but... "A gritty, fast, simple post-apocalyptic system" I think you're kinda missing the elephant in the room: the question asked for a "post-apocalyptic" system and you …

LARP seems to be supported here the same way it is on RPGnet (which is to say, absolutely on-topic, but the discussion is rather low-volume and peripheral because it's only of interest to a minority of …

RPG SE uses system-agnostic a lot, and in a rather esoteric fashion. Its tag wiki, however, is a sad, sad thing: About system-agnostic Not related to any one particular system of rules. This really …

For example, if someone just wrote a kickass expert answer and you really want to see a bit more discussion on one point, ask them to elaborate. …

There is no harm in having the tag, really A question tagged gm-techniques will still show up in a search of that tag even if it is also tagged pathfinder. Ditto it'll show up as a highlight even if y …

The discussion has come up on various SE sites in addition to Meta (mostly when it was SO Meta). …

I'm not a big user here, but here's my two cents: I could see highlighting certain specific game terms, when they are a big deal to the overall context of the post. Like, I dunno, highlighting class …