The Oracle

I was a bit puzzled today when I tried to get into the General Chat to discover that it has been frozen. Since it is the general chat, and since it was always the chat room that one defaults to when one clicks on the chat link down in the footer, why is it subject to being frozen? enter link de...

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 to answer in this format. Is this question stackable, or could it be made stackable? The DM of ...

Documenting a bugI’m getting at the moment: It seems to only be here at RPG. Other sites and even RPG meta are working fine.

There is a new question that has been tagged with size. There are about 7,000 results for posts that mention the word size. There is a more specialized tag called size-scaling that currently has 12 questions to its name. And there is this old Meta Q&A about introducing a [tag:creature-size], that...

I am currently playing in an Exalted: Essence game, but there is no tag for this edition of the game. I know Essence is a cut down, simplified edition of Exalted, but is it considered a new edition worthy of it's own tag? So far I've been concentrating on exalted-3e answers, but finding few quest...

I am playing a Druid character in a campaign using 5e-2014 rules and our DM is allowing transitioning to 5e-2024. However, I don't want to do the work until I know the changes to that class on an overall and specific level. Hence, a post for each class outlining the key differences would be very ...

In recent months I've observed a fair few questions which draw quite a bit of negativity in the comments. These questions have the common factors of both being self-answer questions, and also being somewhat like "read the book to me" questions, in that the user's self-answer is simply pointing ou...

I would ask something like this: What changed in the update from 2014 to 2024? I'm expecting this to likely be closed for being too broad(?), so I'm limiting it a bit - only include broad sweeps. For example, don't say what specific rules for an interaction were changed and how, just say the rul...

Because of the slight changes in rules between D&D 2014 and D&D 2024, there are a number of questions that are interested in how the spell works across both editions, or, if it still works as it used to in the last edition. Several of those questions have been marked with the edition-comparison, ...

I'm running my first session of 5e for a level 1 party. Can I get suggestions on my prep thus far? Actually, the OP has put many details that I deem this is a good question with a lot of work and research. They just need experts (us!) to review it and give suggestion, if there's any. This is simi...

I'm curious if anyone else is seeing brackets in the question titles similar to me: This seems to be happening on every single question, so I think it's an issue with the site's code. For reference, I am running FF version 137.0 and am up to date.

The Internet Archive has been archiving and cataloguing websites and scans of older print materials. It describes itself as Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. The site also contains scans of a variety of older Rolepla...

Right now, the tag description for history-of-gaming reads: For questions about the entire history of role-playing games: the history of game companies, trends within the hobby, developments of new kinds of mechanics, and gaming's place in culture. This tag covers questions about the entire hist...

I saw this question: How do liquids flow in Delve? and my immediate thought was “off-topic, it’s a board game, not a role playing game” (https://blackwellwriter.itch.io/delve-a-solo-map-drawing-game). Am I right or wrong?

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 guidelines and the general back it up! principle of SE, that seemed to me good enough. What more can I do,...

(Because question is about how we talk about the rules of RPGs rather than the rules of RPGs themselves, I ask here instead of the main site.) Some things in RPGs are so obvious or self-evident that the authors of the rules fail to spell them out. And most of us never even realize it, because it ...

When I post a new question, typcially within seconds or at most a minute, there will already be multiple views recorded on the question. I do think my own views do not count against that, so this must be other users. Looking at the site analytics (access requries a certain amount of rep), usage o...

It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently t...

To clarify I am aware that questions about authorial intent are considered off topic but are questions structured such as "Has Gary Gygax provided clarification on what they meant by'You know the language of your alignment' in the D&D 1e core book through social channels or in further books?" off...

We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their products) “bid” for an advertising spot. There is a floor price - a minimum price for the spot, and all ...

Hi recently asked a few questions about the new Bastions mechanic in D&D 5e. These were tagged with [bastions], and now have been re-edited to [strongholds], which is a tag for this concept of a home base for the party in general. My questions were pretty specific to the detailed mechanics of bas...

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 for 2024 5e (from the free rules): Rules Aren’t Physics. The rules of the game are meant to provide a fun game expe...

Today I discovered the special-abilities Tag, which doesn't have any Tag Wiki entry and doesn't really seem like something that can be reasonably defined either. It's currently used on 14 questions. Looking through meta there was once a specialabilites Tag, whithout the hyphen, back in 2018. Whi...

Clearly many games think alike, having a kind of transient points that can be gained and spent, with the main purpose usually being a meta (dissociative) way to influence events and dice rolls. But as at times happens, different systems call it by different things (e.g. Impulse Points in GURPS, F...

With the release of a new edition to the most popular tabletop RPG in the world, we can expect to encounter new users, new questions, and new challenges on the site. However, we've been here before and we have matured as a site in the last 13 years, so we have enough experience to anticipate some...

I appreciate the advice given in this answer to the question How can I ask a good homebrew review question?. The final recommendation, "Try playtesting, and share the results if you have," includes some brief advice on playtesting but none on sharing. Assuming I've done a decent job of playtestin...

My second most recent question was voted to close by a person twice in quick succession, clearly using a sock-puppet account. They then downvoted my most recent question twice with a sock-puppet account. How do I report and have the sockpuppeting ameliorated? I am being harassed by a user who kee...

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 moderator that says: "It's important to note that there are thousands of RPGs out there; can you tell us whic...

In this meta discussion we collected questions and concerns the community felt ought be addresed with some guidance ahead of the release of the new iteration of D&D. In this chatroom, we had some discussion, and seem to have more or less come to an agreement on some big ideas for how to prepare f...

The issue I stumbled upon today is regarding the following Q&A : Can you combine Polearm Master with War Caster to cast Booming Blade as enemies approach? Because of a rule change made later, the currently existing and upvoted answers are now wrong. This is fine, and it could make for a good boun...

The new core books for D&D 5e are to be released in the coming months: Book Release Date 2024 Player's Handbook September 17, 2024 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide November 12, 2024 2025 Monster Manual February 18, 2025 As Wizards of the Coast is marketing this as a revision, rather than...

CHAINMAIL was a set of wargaming tabletop rules, that contributed to the creation of our hobby of RPGs, by initially providing a "Fantasy Supplement" that allowed including creatures like goblins, orcs, trolls, elementals, wizards and dragons; those rules were then adopted by Dave Arneson to crea...

My limited understanding is that the D&D 2024 PHB is still 5th edition, just a revised version. And yet, many of the core rules will be different. For question-writers moving forward, how should they designate questions? Will it be best practice to specify whether answers are restricted to revi...

Is it above board to edit another persons question extensively, lets say by adding 755 characters it - to ensure that another recently posted similar question which otherwise would not be classified as a duplicate is then considered a duplicate? When that is not sufficient to address all the impl...

I can access other Stack Exchange sites, and I can access here, obviously, and I can see other people active on RPG main, but for me, RPG is read-only, with links to Stack Status (which shows no problems) and a search of Meta’s maintenance or site-maintenance tags (last activity from May). Is any...

Looking through the list of newly created tags there is a shove tag created for this question. that isn't used anywhere else. Should we keep this tag and tag all questions about shoving with it or is that a bad idea and the tag should be burninated?

This question was written on May 22nd. I marked it as save-for-later because I wanted to come back to it when I had more time. I wrote my answer yesterday (June 19th; as of this writing 22 hours ago). Both Jack and KorvinStarmast immediately interacted with my answer, and I got three votes on m...

This is just curiosity, triggered by a comment by @Kirt. I think it may not quite qualify for the main site, so I hope it is fine to post it here. For the purpose of this, I define most confusing as those spells that generate the largest number of questions. Maybe there is a better way to do this...

For example, here is my count on upvotes from the profile page: However when I open the link that says "View all (number) votes", this is what I get for Upvotes: That is a difference of 99 votes, multiple times the number of votes that I can even cast in a day. Where does this difference co...

To clarify. I was thinking of modifying the 'World in Miniature' feat from spheres of power in order to make it more relevant at higher levels and ask whether it would break the balance but I was stuck on whether to use 'house-rule' or 'homebrew' tag as while altering an existing ability falls un...

I guess it could help with stopping bots from bombing comments with upvotes and such, but it's the only platform I've ever seen that behaves like this.. I created an account a while ago to show appreciation to an answer I found helpful, but I couldn't upvote it. It just feels weird.

When I logged on to this site today, I noticed that the tags looked bold, like this: Have they always been like this, is this a issue with the new update I just downloaded to my Chromebook, or did the site change the font for tags?

Recently I noticed this edit. Here is an example section: using a single mathematical operation is 4*(min(d4, 3)) - 8, or in anydice terms 4d{1,2,3,3} - 8 (or equivalently 4d{-1,0,1,1} was edited to: using a single mathematical operation is 4*(min(d4, 3)) - 8, or in anydice terms 4d{1,2,3,3} -...

In several different cases, I've encountered answers that were just... wrong. However, I don't know how to respond to this. Recently, I flagged a wrong answer, and it was declined and I was told not to do that in the future. How should we react to answers that simply aren't founded in fact? Shoul...

I found a homebrew Summoner class on DMsGuild that looks balanced, as well as fun to play. However, I'm not sure whether entire are appropriate for this site, although I've seen several different examples of this. Is it appropriate to ask questions about the balance of entire homebrew classes on ...

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 trying to understand why my post was closed. It's a question about homebrewed traits for pathfind...

Questions typically arise from problems you need to solve If I understand correctly, the concept of Stackoverflow is something like: "I am facing a problem while programming, I already researched and asked by colleagues but couldn't get it solved either, so I am now asking the SO community if any...

Sometimes when scrolling on my phone, I tap a tag and the info box appears: Once it appears, I can’t get it to go away without refreshing the page. This is supremely annoying. How do I make it go away without navigating away or refreshing the page? I’m using iOS Safari.