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What can experienced SE users who are new to RPGs bring to the community?
I'm a user of multiple stackExchanges and have a few k rep in a few different SEs.
I started playing RPGs last year, so I'm aware my experience is pretty vanilla so far (Pathfinder and about to start …
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What to do with questions that will have a different answer each year?
There are some questions on good tablet/smartphone apps/sites/resources for GMing and playing. They are, unfortunately, years old, and I am sure that there have been and will be new releases and updat …
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Let's merge problem-players and problem-gm
To follow up to BESW's answer, how about a merged problem-behaviour tag?
Since the issue isn't the identity of a player/GM or their role, but their intentional or unintentional destructive behaviour …
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Are RPG tool support questions on topic?
I'm keen to use RPGwithme.com and it seems to require a character import from HeroLab or similar.
Would questions on how to use tools like this be on-topic?
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Beginner-box and red-box tags
I've just created the beginner-box and red-box tags, should they exist and should they be a synonyms for each other or should there be one starter-kit tag to rule them all?
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Is using D&D as an example when no system is specified acceptable?
Based on this implicitly system agnostic question, I answered using D&D as an example since it's a very common, often gateway system to RPGs.
Is the assumption that an answer using D&D variants as an …
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I've changed game systems, can I reask my favourite questions?
I got into RPing while D&D 4e was waning in popularity, so on the advice from my FLGS, picked up the Pathfinder Beginner Box. Had fun with it for a few years and got some great answers and help on RPG …
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Should a mechanic-specific question that becomes ultimately about GMing be retagged?
My answer to this question about balancing combat powers has reframed it to be about being a new DM with new players.
I've said why it's a bad idea in general, I've given some advice, but not answered …
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How to deal with questions that relate to off-topic influences to on-topic principles?
With the close votes and downvote, I get the feeling my dire question is borderline, with some parts on topic and some off-topic.
How do we deal with questions about off-topic influences/sources (lit …