I'm looking to start a solo DnD adventure with my wife as the only player. She's a total novice.  Which is generally the most successful way to handle the single-PC issue in your experience:   NPC party/partner 100% solo adventurer Multiple PCs controlled by single human player   I'm inclined to think one of the first two, given her lack of experience, but I'm curious if there are successful ways to use the third option or any combination thereof.  Edit: I am primarily considering 5e or 3.5e/Pathfinder.
I've just finished running my first session with only one player, and it felt pretty different from running a session for a group.  Could someone with more experience in this talk about what one should do differently in that situation?  I'm not referring to mechanics like encounter-building, but just how to handle the change to the social dynamics.
Did the Nazgûl retain their Rings of Power? In The Fellowship of the Rings, Frodo sees the true appearance of the Nazgûl:      He was able to see beneath their black wrappings. There were five tall figures: two standing on the lip of the dell, three advancing. In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. Their eyes fell on him and pierced him, as they rushed towards him.   The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien - chapter 11, A Knife In the Dark   There's no mention of the Nazgûl wearing the rings of power that Sauron gave them, although their hands are referenced. Did the Nazgûl retain their rings of power once they became wraiths? Or did something else happen to the rings once the Nazgûl emerged?&#185;  &#185; As an FYI, I am currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy and am just pages from being done with The Fellowship of the Ring. I'm very familiar with the Peter Jackson movies. So that's where I'm coming from as far as canon knowledge goes. Often times I am not interested in the question so much as I am the answer. Unfortunately, the only site option for bookmarking an optimal answer is to bookmark the question. This leaves you having to remember that no the question wasn't that great, but there's an answer in here worth a million. It'd be nice to be able to favorite an answer allowing you to jump immediately to the answer that was much more valuable than the question. I understand that I can bookmark the answers link using my browser but it seems being able to favorite the answer within the site's ecosystem is useful. I'd love your help with finding the sign of the following integral: $\int_{0}^{2 \pi}\frac{\sin x}{x} dx$,I know that computing it is impossible.  I tried to use integration by parts and maybe to learn about the sign of each part and conclude something but It didn't work for me.  Any suggestions? How do I get started with 'painting with light' photography? Tunnels being naturally dark may not be the most intuitive choice for a place to take pictures. But I love the '' work that artists such as '' are putting out and they're clearly seeking out places like tunnels, caves, garages... Dark places in other words, to create their works of art. Which brings two questions to mind:   How do I go about finding places that I can accomplish this sort of 'tunnel photography.' What are some techniques that I can use to 'paint with light' in my photography once I have found some locations? Does iCloud Drive automatically download all files? I am using OS X 10.10 with iCloud Drive. I am thinking of upgrading to a bigger storage plan (at the moment: 5GB).   I am running this Version on a MacBook Air with 128GB.      If I buy the 500GB package, does it mean that I fill up my local hard   drive automatically when I upload things to the iCloud Drive?   iTunes has the Option of stream the music i didn't download yet.   How does iCloud Drive behave? Is there any Online Document? Eclipse is giving me a warning of the following form:     Type safety: Unchecked cast from Object to HashMap   This is from a call to an API that I have no control over which returns Object:  HashMap&lt;String, String&gt; getItems(javax.servlet.http.HttpSession session) {   HashMap&lt;String, String&gt; theHash = (HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;)session.getAttribute("attributeKey");   return theHash; }   I'd like to avoid Eclipse warnings, if possible, since theoretically they indicate at least a potential code problem.  I haven't found a good way to eliminate this one yet, though.  I can extract the single line involved out to a method by itself and add @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") to that method, thus limiting the impact of having a block of code where I ignore warnings.  Any better options?  I don't want to turn these warnings off in Eclipse.  Before I came to the code, it was simpler, but still provoked warnings:  HashMap getItems(javax.servlet.http.HttpSession session) {   HashMap theHash = (HashMap)session.getAttribute("attributeKey");   return theHash; }   Problem was elsewhere when you tried to use the hash you'd get warnings:  HashMap items = getItems(session); items.put("this", "that");  Type safety: The method put(Object, Object) belongs to the raw type HashMap.  References to generic type HashMap&lt;K,V&gt; should be parameterized. How does the telepathy supernatural ability work? What is the difference between correlation and causation? What is the difference between correlation and causation?  Pirates and Global Temperature Example  For example, how do we know when we're dealing with correlation only and not also causation here?   What Certain Philosophers Seem to Hold Regarding This  It would seem that   Hume would saycorrelation ≡ causation. Aristotle would say that in generalcorrelation ≢ causationand thatcausation ⇔ correlationonly if we are not dealing with chance events.   ("≡" means "is identical to," and "⇔" means "implies each other.") Temporarily deleted answer missing from asker's inbox I  and . This answer does not appear in my inbox. 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I tried, but it would only allow me to select an English keyboard. Thanks No route matches "/users/sign_out" devise rails 3 Infinite coproduct of abelian groups One can see on every text (book, lesson, comments) that a direct sum/coproduct of abelian groups is the same as a finite product but in the infinite case, the direct sum/coproduct is only a subgroup of the product.  Why does an element in an infinite direct sum only have finitely many components different from the neutral elements?  I don't see where the "finite" comes from when I look at the universal property.  Also, in another situation, a condition of "finiteness" appears and I think that is because of the same structure: a freely generated group, vectors space, algebra etc... has elements that are finite product/sum of generating elements. Because, if one really wants an infinite "sum" (or sequence) one may just take a formal serie. That is a ring, hence also an abelian group. Why is $\omega$ the smallest $\infty$? How could I adjust the size and placement of chapter heading in my custom class? I am using report class as my base. When I used titlesec package inside my custom class, it threw error     ! Package titlesec Error: Not allowed in `easy'   settings. Teams of users rails app Save fillable forms I'm travelling to country X. I want to install an application which isn't available in my country, but is available in country X; but I prefer to download and install it in advance, while the data connection is still cheap.  Unfortunately, the Play Stores does not allow me to install this app. Is there any way to circumvent this limitation? In the Android app, left sidebar, there is an editable list of "Your Sites". In the editing pane, the sites are re-orderable (although awkwardly), and the order one places the sites in there is preserved, even after quitting the app and returning to this pane. One expects that order to be reflected in the "Your Sites" portion of the left sidebar when the editing pane is closed, but it is not.  I'm not sure what is determining the order of the sites in the left sidebar, it doesn't seem to be by date they were "pinned" into the list one wants to show, either. I've created main SELECT statement like below. For every row in Base table (base on IDKey I've added columns with values from result of INNER JOIN of few tables.  SELECT   IDKey,    Name,    (select Amount from Table1 INNER JOIN Table2 ... where ID=IDKey) AS AmountTypeX,    (select Amount from Table1 INNER JOIN Table2 ... where ID=IDKey) AS AmountTypeY FROM BaseTable   BaseTable:  IDKey Name  ---------- 1     Ian 2     John 3     Ann ...   INNER JOIN of few tables Table1, Table2... :   ID Amount Type -------------- 1  100    X 1  200    Y 2  300    X 2  400    Y 3  500    X 3  600    Y ...   Result looks like:  IDKey  Name  AmountTypeX  AmountTypeY ------------------------------------- 1      Ian   100          200 2      John  300          400 3      Ann   500          600 ...   Do you have any suggestion how to avoid this nested SELECT statements in the main query at the begining and made this query simpler and more effective ?  I wast thinking about PIVOTING of the INNER JOIN result to look like below (all data for particular ID in one row) and then JOIN with main query but Have no idea how to do this and is it possible.  ID  X   Y ----------- 1   100 200 2   300 400 3   500 600 ... How to avoid pressing Enter with getchar() for reading a single character only?