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"What is the best way to…" is to be avoided. The problem with that phrase is that it is asking the answerers to determine the best answer, and then write it. That shortcuts the Stack Exchange process …

Questions don't have to be questions and answers don't have to be stand-alone, and comments are used extensively. The Q&A format is still useful back here though – just like your Q and this A. … The software is built for Q&A, and it would be more bother than help to have a custom forum for Meta, and questions like yours wouldn't benefit from a change in software anyway. …

Just leave a comment on the old one linking to the new one and explaining that it's the "replacement" or "second edition" of it or something like that. That links them together as related in the syst …

You can ask about setting information Questions about game settings are totally on-topic here. … what can be known about the reactions of a public-figure NPC in an RPG setting, we can try to answer that, though it's possible there is insufficient information published to be able to answer certain questions …

Asking about miniatures is totally on-topic for RPG.SE. However, for Warhammer 40,000 miniatures specifically, you can find way more experts in boargames.SE's [warhammer-40k] tag than you will ever f …

Overview questions related to RPGs are… on topic, certainly. They're about RPGs. … even esoteric subjects in religious studies), but questions of this general type are not inherently outside our scope …

It's the title of a possibly topical question, but it literally lacks body. Without seeing it in its full question form, we can't guarantee whether the community will think it's good. It's certainly …

We have a terminology tag: its presence indicates that terminology questions are generally on-topic. Ask away. … Just ask your questions and find out if they're considered good the normal way, via people's comments, up/down votes, and close votes or lack thereof. …

It is bad, because They're not questions about real problems yet They interfere with others' ability to later post their real questions about the issue Making up a question that one thinks will be … As a general principle, only people who actually have a problem now with an existing game should be composing questions looking for solutions to that problem. …

One thing your older question had going for it was that it was about creating an homage to a specific character/monster that you could point to outside of your own head, which the answer used as a ref …

It's hard to give advice for improving a hypothetical question; in practice, it's nearly always more effective to just ask the question, and then deal with any edits it needs as they are brought to yo …

Part of the purpose of duplicates is to help people find a question's answers. We like duplicates because they often have different titles and ways of asking the question — it gives searchers more way …

If you have two connected questions in a post, and that specifically makes it hard to title, then it might not count as one question. … If you’re struggling to find a title that isn’t too broad, unclear, or misleading, that suggests that these two little questions aren’t one topic. …

Yep, just make it very clear that you are asking a strictly rules-focused question. We have a culture that encourages answer-writers to approach solving a question’s problem with the answer they thin …

Please see What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"? …