Questions tagged [specific-question]
For questions primarily concerned with or seeking guidance for an individual question on the Role-Playing Games Stack Exchange.
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Question source full of weird runic characters, but copy and paste elsewhere yields actual text?
When I try to edit any question or answer here, I see this: Copying and pasting these characters anywhere else works fine, though: ...
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Is this question asking about impacts of changing Legendary Resistance stackable?
Last week, my DM proposed a change to the mechanics of Legendary Resistance. I'd like to get more expert feedback about possibly unintended consequences, I'm just worried the question is way too broad ...
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How should we deal with session prep review questions?
See this question: I'm running my first session of 5e for a level 1 party. Please review my prep thus far Actually, the OP has put many details that I deem this is a good question with a lot of ...
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What has happened to "Back it up"?
I answered a question recently with what I thought was appropriate facts: that I personally had done something specific to the question and my personal experiences doing it. Based on our own ...
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D&D is not a physics simulation update
I have this question: Is there a citation for "D&D is not a physics simulation"?, with great answers, for D&D 5e (during the 2014 era). We now have a fully official statement on it ...
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Is this question about water genasi actually ambiguous?
I was surprised to see that this question: What exactly would destroy water do to a water genasi? has been closed for eleven hours as "needs details or clarity". There's a comment from a ...
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Why was my post asking for a review of homebrewed traits closed? (appeal from a new user trying to better understand stackexchange)
I have a question about my Role-playing Games Stack Exchange post: Please review these homebrewed regional traits I was told to ask for help here so let's try this out: I'm a new user here and I'm ...
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Is it OK to post a question about an Sage Advice Column entry?
I find myself repeatedly referring to the Sage Advice Compendium (SAC) entry that defines what counts as magical; however, there is no way (that I know of) to directly point at that entry, the best I ...
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What should I do if I have a huge [homebrew-review] question that I need to break into smaller parts?
After asking Is this variant of the Armorer Artificer balanced compared to the existing subclass?, which offered a wide range of options to choose from, I was informed that it simply had too much ...
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Reconciling how we treated two questions asking for DMing advice
Three days ago new user Billy Lane asked How do I become a great gm?, with the full text of their question reading: I’ve played D&D on Discord now for a year, and I used to play D&D way-way ...
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Should this question on whether DM's hiding rolls is standard remain open?
This question on if a DM can hide their rolls is a very old question that was closed as opinion-based due to the answers that were coming in. The question itself seems to just be asking if hiding ...
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Asking about "mooning"
So, this question is gaining some attention due to its content - specifically about the act of "mooning". Mooning is the act of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g., by ...
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Are questions about the viability of a campaign or mission's premise acceptable?
I'm currently in the early stages of planning a campaign where my current idea is that the PCs will be travelling over a large continent, and the primary thing keeping them together is a curse that ...
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How would I go about requesting homebrew-review for an entire game system?
I have about 3k words of a game system representing mostly additions and improvements to Wushu Open. I'd like to request comments, complaints, criticism, and concepts, but I fear that the site's ...
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Should this question be considered "idea generation" and closed?
This question apparently doesn't have a single correct answer: What are some monsters that could trap NPCs for a long time without killing them? On the other hand, it is pretty narrow for being "...
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