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"Why ..." doesn't necessarily mean "Why did the designers ..."
Possibly I've spent too much time adjudicating legal disputes but I find the answer to "What happened?" is far more useful in determining the "why" than "What did X say was the reason that something happened?" X is always an unreliable witness.
It'...
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Here's how this breaks down:
We do not, in point of fact, have a problem with answers talking about designer reasons.
We do have a problem with answers making big claims without proportionate citation, and with misleading answers. This usually gets corrected by downvoting.
Questions asking about designer reasons were banned because, simply, we saw a ton of ...
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Users are not required to know the answer to their question in order to ask it.
This is a fundamental, doesn’t-even-need-to-be-stated, tenet of a Q&A site—any Q&A site. Questions cannot be closed based on what the answer is. Note that designer-reasons questions aren’t—they are closed because of the kinds of bad-and-wrong answers they tend to draw. ...
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don't ask why
It's a simple change, but simply asking for how the alignment of orcs have changed over the editions is probably fine.
Asking why it's changed seems pretty clearly to be a designer question.
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It's trivially editable-- instead of asking where it should ask how, the answer to which is probably 'go to such and such a site', but that's allowed.
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It is off topic on rpg.se because recommendation/shopping questions are off topic -game-recs, but also tool and resource and site recs. See Are tool recommendation questions on topic?
We have a list of forums on Meta because it’s off-topic for the main site as a rec question, but we felt having a “where to go when you get told to go to a forum” list was ...
answered Jul 12 at 16:06
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The first question is for sure one that is well scoped. It is possible to ask a question that is hard to answer. Well, that's OK, we may need to be patient and see if anyone with that long of a memory has something to offer.
I asked a question about what people learned from the module/adventure "Murder in Baldur's Gate" which was released during ...
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