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Asking about "mooning"
Whether it belongs on Stack Exchange is a normative question rather than a legal one, but my personal opinion is that the linked question is acceptable.
The Question includes some discussion of the ...
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What is OGL 1.1: A request to reopen
I think we should keep this question open
I'll get to the point: this is one of the most important periods of D&D's history ever for the people who play it and create content for it. OGL 1.1's ...
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Asking about "mooning"
I think this is fine
As stated in the original question's comments and cited in this meta question, we have previously permitted questions which involve rude gestures the likes of which would only fly ...
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How could I fix my question about the Deck of Many Things?
You Should Take It To A Discussion Forum
You should take it to a discussion forum because in my opinion, even with the fixes, it's inherently opinion-based. Really, it's twenty-two opinion-based ...
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Why was my homebrew-review question downvoted even though I followed the criteria?
Those aren’t “the criteria”
The Meta discussion on homebrew-review questions is not criteria for asking homebrew-review questions. A question that ignores it is not automatically bad, and a question ...
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Why was my homebrew-review question downvoted even though I followed the criteria?
The question is difficult to answer objectively
As @nvoigt stated in their comment, the question features a lot of homebrew elements, such as the character's abilities and the fact that the campaign ...
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How to handle "make this better" questions when the asker has little or no GM restrictions and has a lot of chosen options?
Difficulty is not a criterion for closure.
You'll notice that when you vote to close or flag for "needs improvement", "question is too difficult" is not one of the reasons offered. ...
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What is OGL 1.1: A request to reopen
It is bad timing
At the moment, all we have is a leak and everybody is discussing what the parts mean or do not mean. It's not even known if this is an early version, or the current latest or if it ...
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Settling the status of "Can I recover a single arrow?"
This question should remain closed as a duplicate.
Question A: Can I recover a single arrow?
Question B: Is ammunition recoverable and reusable?
I voted to close this question as a duplicate of Is ...
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I would like an update for this old question: Should I use a bounty or a new question?
Bounty seems right, here.
"Current answers are outdated" is a standard bounty reason, followed by the description "the current answer(s) are out-of-date and require revision given ...
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How would I go about requesting homebrew-review for an entire game system?
You would not and could not get an entire game system reviewed here. What you need is a playtest.
Our format is specifically engineered for problems that need solving. It is best at surfacing two ...
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Is this title a spoiler and how would we avoid the spoiler if so?
It's not a spoiler
It is widely known that Tiamat has a stat block. The question if a specific stat block is correct is ok, and should not be a spoiler in itself.
The question does not specify which ...
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What is OGL 1.1: A request to reopen
"Off-topic" is misleading feedback
Starting at the top, the question wasn't closed as "off-topic" per se. It's just that giving a custom close reason means the site displays the ...
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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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Settling the status of "Can I recover a single arrow?"
I think this is not an easy case, which is why it has popped back so often
The particular issue (and if I recall right, I ended up to vote reopen due to it) here is that the general answer does not ...
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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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Is this title a spoiler and how would we avoid the spoiler if so?
What exactly would be the spoiler?
Dragons had a dangerous breath since folklore tales were told.
The idea that there are different colors of dragons and they all come with their own alignment and ...
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What is OGL 1.1: A request to reopen
With small changes, it is worth opening
It's worth having a "What are the implications of the leaked 1.1" - even if the leaked ideas never actually get published, it's worth exploring the ...
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Should this question be considered "idea generation" and closed?
Very borderline but possibly salvageable, IMO.
I think the current phrasing of things, especially the title, does veer too close to idea generation. "What are some" is a yellow-flag of a ...
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Why was my homebrew-review question downvoted even though I followed the criteria?
People treating downvotes as 'dislikes'.
This is less of a certainty and more of a guess based on the results of posts on forums that use voting systems (mostly reddit) and/or comments on other forums ...
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Is this title a spoiler and how would we avoid the spoiler if so?
I think coming up with a detailed spoiler policy for a forum like this will be very difficult and possibly counter-productive. (I am willing to be proven wrong, but will be swayed by evidence of ...
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Workshopping "What is the best way to bring a campaign to an end?"
To sum up from what I've observed of the community standards here, this is a single-issue question and answer site where discrete (Single issue) questions that can have an answer backed by supporting ...
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What is OGL 1.1: A request to reopen
We might need to update the question to reflect the last week...
With OGL 1.1 Gone, and 1.2 utterly Destroyed (and Hasbro looking almost like they are back to the wall) within 7 days of them offering ...
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How would I go about requesting homebrew-review for an entire game system?
Cut it to pieces!
If you need 3000 words to explain the changes, we need more than 30000 words to explain the implications. As a result, we'd break the limits of the system.
Another thing is, that ...
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