Homebrew-related questions need to be received better It's taken me a while to find a way to say this, but this meta question puts a finger on it. There is (or seems to be) a perceived bias against ...

Instead focus on: What problem are you trying to solve at the table? When a rule looks weird or feels out of whack, a lot of different questions arise, one of which is "what were they thinking?" "...

Your percentages are off, but you can ignore the [*dnd*] and [pathfinder] tags. This link tells you how to ignore a tag. I find about 17,500 tags for D&D (and over 10K for the current edition) and ...

It doesn't hurt to ask ... Many users on many SE site do ask for feedback to help understand what caused a negative reaction to a given answer or question. ... but don't be upset by a lack of ...

Yes, "we" should stop repeating that phrase Why? In part because it comes off as passive-aggressive The "and nothing more" piece is the particular problem in that regard. That's ...

A fine cheese to go with your favorite bread, toasted, with beverage of your choice. How many creatures can attack another creature. Aggresso absurdum

Thank you for the greatest of gifts to give: your time We each have a certain amount of time to spend each waking day on all of the things that life puts in front of us. For the last four years, you ...

I volunteer to mediate this process. I am putting this in an answer as neither Smurfton nor I are sure how to volunteer, per our comment under the question. I will guess that up votes and down votes ...

Per a previous answer: only if 5e doesn't occur in a vacuum If there are sufficient contextual clues to determine "5e of what?" such that a player of the game and that edition can clearly ...

I wrote an answer about this a while back, here's a shorter version Get clarification first / promote better engagement with new users One of the advantages of asking the question "What game/system/...

Get clarification first / promote better engagement with new users One of the advantages of asking the question "What game/system/edition are you playing?" and waiting to get that answer is that we ...

Yes, we should. To avoid confusion on the part of both question askers and question answerers. The use of edition tags has generally been very helpful for this site.

Spaulding the Troll said "I'd rather eat cheese than stirge" But Judge Smails said "You'll eat stirge and like it, Spaulding!" Quadratic Wizard has shown how the troll-stirge ...

We have the tower of rage, stack 'o mounts that has raging barbarians, all the way down. Best served with a red wine, and rye crackers. As the creator observes: Awakened Cat Barbarian riding a ...

When there is additional evidence of the system being used already in the question. As these two answers from experienced, and even venerable, RPGSE members point out, where there is additional ...

Too Many Words for a post notice: be concise Let's do some liposuction on the proposed post notice: Answers should be supported using evidence and/or experience. See citation expectations for ...

I have often seen "too broad" and "opinion based" as reasons to close homebrew requests. I'd recommend using "opinion based" as the close reason.

No need to fix what's not broken Bonus action questions and answers do not exist in a vacuum. They are associated with a wide variety of things in D&D 5e across a wide variety of classes, skills, ...

Ah, so mxy is stepping down. I suspected that was in the cards. 1. Grats Rubiksmoose and V2Blast. We are in good hands. 2. Thanks, mxyzplk, for your long service at this stack ... ... and for ...

The GS/BS norms have changed of late Your answers are not "suddenly, this bad." You have been a quality contributor for a good long while. I've been watching this thing that you mention for the ...

Spread the good answers to other places on the web You can provide links to useful questions and answers to other places on the internet. That spreads the usefulness of the stack's output, and it ...

New User Experience remains a problem; it's never been solved And maybe it can't be solved2. It's so easy to hide behind "this is now SE works" and "this site's not for everybody" attitude3 that ...

Your question restated: How should I provide examples of experience as support for my answer? Use an organized packaging method (see below). I'm willing to accept that and edit my answer ...

A reason to be against it: Visual Presentation While usually the highest voted answer and the accepted answer have a high correlation, those cases where the accepted answer (which satisified the ...

Thanks for that precious gift you gave to us all: your time. Given that you have a few rooms full of students to mentor, and three of your own to raise, that you were able to fit in some time to help ...

Yes it is fine to cite the D&D 5e SRD; some caveats may be needed For the most part, the rules texts match. The issue is that in some cases, the SRD rules don't perfectly align with the rule ...

You are not required to use all community privileges SE does not pay you, nor any of us who participate and who fulfill a variety of the "community mod" functions. You are thus under no burden to do ...

I can't really remember why I joined. I think it was to find an answer to an odd D&D question since I got back in to D&D, after a long lay off, in 2014. As a result of this site, I got to ...

Is there a limit to the number of Unseen Servants I can have? Is Unseen Servant use and abuse cheese, is it silly fun, or is it both? We find yet another tasty Ementhal here in the asking of how ...

Censorship: not a good idea The terms that you wish to discourage have currency and a utility beyond this limited audience (RPGSE users); any attempt to curtail their use on this site is needlessly ...