Questions tagged [duplicates]
For questions on Meta about duplicate questions, when a question should be closed as a duplicate of another, and how to handle questions closed as duplicates.
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Retroactively ensuring a question is a duplicate, good practice? [duplicate]
Is it above board to edit another persons question extensively, lets say by adding 755 characters to it - to ensure that another recently posted similar question which otherwise would not be ...
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I would like an update for this old question: Should I use a bounty or a new question?
I have asked this question some years ago. It is about giving spells as a racial feature in dnd-5e. The answer is good but racial features of the kind have significantly changed in official ...
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Would a question on Centaur Equine Bond & an ability granting a Climb speed equal to normal speed be on-topic and not a duplicate?
I have a rules question I believe isn't covered by the three similar (but not duplicate questions). Is this something that should be answered on the other questions or does it deserve it's own ...
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Why are questions about similar, but not the same, rules interactions marked as duplicate?
Can I twin cast a cantrip used with reaper from the death domain? This is the example I've just come across, but I have definitely run across many similar questions. A duplicate question should be ...
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A question is an obvious duplicate, but there is other confusion in the question worth addressing. What do?
This question, Rogue Holding Bonus Action to disengage once attacked, is an obvious duplicate of this question: Can you ready a bonus action?. At least, the general question being asked is exactly the ...
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Settling the status of "Can I recover a single arrow?"
Can I recover a single arrow? This is the third meta question relating to this main site question (see also here and here), but it has popped back into the reopen queue several times now (five times ...
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Is this question about true polymorph and consumable spell components a duplicate?
The question: True Polymorph + True Seeing = True Death? This question was originally closed as a duplicate of this question, asking if using true polymorph to create consumable spell components ...
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Is creating duplicate signpost questions wrong?
I created a new question as a signpost for an existing question, because the existing question was using language that made it hard to find (at least for me), then immediately closed it as a duplicate,...
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Is the general form of a common question a duplicate of the specific forms?
The situation is the following: there are often questions where the querant is facing a very specific instance of a more general issue. For example: Someone wants to know when a colossal creature ...
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Oops, I reopened my own question
I have a question how legitimate it is to cast unused spell slots in the moring before learning new spells. It was closed as a duplicate of if you can cast spells during a long rest. After I edited it,...
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A Canonical Wish Question [2022]: Why Shouldn't I Make a Necromancer Farm?
I'd like us to revisit the discussion had here: Should we have a canonical "Can the Wish spell do X?" question? This is not a duplicate because I think a change of landscape, so to speak, ...
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Is this question about readying an action to cast a spell from a magic item a duplicate?
Rather than flinging my question onto main and discussing possible duplicature later, I am going to preemptively ask about it here first, in order to determine if I should ask my new question or ...
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Is this question about Haste, the Bladesinger wizard's Extra Attack, and cantrips that do "one weapon attack only" a duplicate?
I asked this question on RPG.SE: How does the Haste spell's extra action interact with the Bladesinger's Extra Attack feature and with cantrips that do "one weapon attack only"? ...
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How can one person close a question?
I keep seeing examples of one user unilaterally closing questions as duplicates. How does one person have the power to do this when it should need 5 close votes? And what is the policy on doing so? ...
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Does closure of a question depend on whether it was asked earlier or if it provides a more general response?
Long story short. Today I received a message that a question I asked two years and six months ago was closed as a duplicate of another question that was asked four months later. I had previously ...
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