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How should we deal with questions about 5e rules from people playing Baldur's Gate 3?
Is the question about BG3 or inspired by BG3?
Questions about BG3's mechanics or (game-specific) lore belong on Arqade: they're not about a paper & pencil RPG, they're about a video game.
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I tried to stay D&D question neutral last year, how did I do?
Congratulation!
As someone that does decidedly not like 5e for various reasons (and Wizards did not endear itself to me in January this year especially), Kudos for asking rare game questions. For ...
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How to deal with poorly translated questions?
Clarifications, patience, and editing
We need to understand the question. That doesn't strictly require perfect english, though obviously when language makes things ambiguous we need clarification.
A ...
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Would this question about the Deck of Many Things be allowed?
No, it would not.
Your updated question doesn't fundamentally change the opinion-based issue that has closed your initial question. What is a concrete negative consequence is still going to be opinion-...
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Should questions about dice in general be on-topic? [2023]
If the word “dice” is the only thing that relates a question to RPGs, it is off topic.
Consider this revision to the example question about dice geometry:
I need a 5 and 7 sided mathematically fair ...
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Accepted
Does asking for a list of reference books within a typically interwoven set of systems that contain a specific rule count as "shopping for games"?
Game-recommendation questions were closed because everyone kept just recommending their own personal favorite game system for every question, and didn’t back up those claims the way we needed them to ...
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How to deal with poorly translated questions?
For this particular question, translation does not appear to be the issue.
I left the initial comments and the first close vote (which S_E finished with his secret sauce), so I will give some ...
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Are questions about the viability of a campaign or mission's premise acceptable?
This will likely be opinion based
If I'm reading it correctly your proposed question is something along the lines of:
Is it a good idea for a campaign to have the party cursed such that they cannot ...
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How to ask effective questions?
The title grabs attention
A good question has a title that grabs attention. Either the title is descriptive, or it is for some other reason making people think "huh?" and look at it.
Framing
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Brackets in question titles
Special characters can be escaped with \
If you have text you want a link on such as
Testing [link] ideas
You can escape any troublesome characters by placing a \ before them, which makes the parser ...
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Should questions about dice in general be on-topic? [2023]
Put them where they belong
For my mind, unless the hypothetical dice question relates to an RPG more or less directly, it’s off topic. So, if it’s about probability or geometry it doesn’t belong here.
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I tried to stay D&D question neutral last year, how did I do?
I think this worked very well
I did only join a year ago, and if someone had asked me before I saw this post of yours, I would not have put you down as a mainly D&D player. To the contrary, I ...
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