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I personally have no use for a lot of the questions and answers on this site, but otherwise have lots of use for others. …

That lets us handle a much wider variety of questions than just rules questions. Check out our group-dynamics tag sometime for an example of one type. … The site provides multiple posts instead The site welcomes multiple questions though: we are encouraged to make multiple posts when we have multiple questions. …

It involves not doing anything unless sure, not worrying about preventing close votes, and explicitly inviting the post’s author into the iterative, collaborative process that SE uses to revise questions … This measured, patient, and faithful approach had polished many questions at RPG.se over the years. …

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. …

NAA flags are appropriate for answers that have been accidentally made for the wrong game. If you're concerned that the problem might not be obvious to the mod handling the flag, as usual you could in …

Yes Questions can be clarified, but new questions aren't clarifications and should be posted as separate, new questions. … Related meta questions (the first two are the closest to this one, but I don't think exactly the same): Should I edit my question or create a new one? …

When there is no such thing as good or bad, only opinion, SE doesn't try and doesn't even accept such questions. … RPG.SE is a complementary site to those discussion sites, and expects people to ask their questions and seek help on the site that is most useful. …

Ask a new question, definitely. When the question changes substantially, it's cleaner and preferred to make a new question. The existing question is done and editing it now would create a bit of a me …

There would be mechanical questions about Call and Trail alongside historical questions about how long it takes to get from London's passenger docks to the British Museum by taxi and when the telephone … I know you're probably worried about questions getting bad answers because you're worried we're not expert enough in those sorts of questions. I suggest this isn't worth worrying about. …

And remember: having a list as an answer isn't the sin questions must avoid, it's having an unmaintainable and indefinitely long list. … questions every time a new AL season starts… …

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 …

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 …

There have been several old Next questions that later 5e questions are duplicates of, but the old questions are either hard to revise to make current or the answers are a mess of speculation, "We'll see … I know, I know, duplicating old questions to new questions is getting it backwards. Except it's not! …

Mods have access to the merge action, which moves all answers from one question to the master question, closes the duplicate as a duplicate (if it hasn't been already), and then locks the duplicate to …