New forum : Questions and Answers

[Cruzel]

Make a forum where players can ask general questions, since I see a lot of posts in the DM question/Answers forums that could easily be answered by other players!

[Listen in Silence]

I raged on mIRC about this once.

This puts me in favour of your suggestion.

[Snoteye]

It would be useless.

• People will ask the right questions and get the right answers and all will be good.
• People will ask the wrong questions and get the right answers and all will be bad.
• People will ask the right questions and get the wrong answers and all will be bad.
• People will ask the wrong questions and get the wrong answers and all will be bad².

Simple game theory proves that it would be a waste.

[derfo]

you could just pm them the answer anyways

[Garem]

You can already do this in the general forum anyways.

[ScottyB]

General questions that don't need a DM can go in the General Discussion board, as Garem indicated.

If you're 100% certain that you know an answer and it's something that should be answered (and not a FOIG), go ahead and PM someone the answer.

[ExileStrife]

Sadly, people tend to have a lot of misconceptions about many things, and one of the ways these misconceptions propagate are when players are hesitant to ask DMs and another player (innocently or purposefully) is willing to jump in and spread the misinformation.  Sure, the DM Q/A forum isn't 100% perfect, but I think it does a pretty good job.