One of the players in my game is the most fervent powergamer I've ever met. I know it's how he gets enjoyment from the game, and so far it doesn't intrude on the other players' enjoyment, so I've allowed it for the most part. Unless the loophole he finds is either explicitly disallowed, or would seriously break the game (either mechanically or thematically), I've let him use loopholes and combos to his heart's content.  However, whenever he makes a new character (especially a combat monster), it's difficult to plan around as the GM. I know that I could hard counter any of his characters by making an enemy or an encounter specifically designed around his current character, but that would be pretty noticeable and would take away from his enjoyment of the game without adding anything else.   So how can I provide a challenge to my powergamer or otherwise upset his expectations without taking away his enjoyment of the game or designing something specifically to counter him?
What are some strategies that I can employ to handle a power gamer that constantly outshines the rest of the party? This is a friend of us all and we don't want to boot him, but combat simply isn't fun when the party has nothing to do while he mops up an encounter by himself.
Since Chrome version 38, there's a pretty ugly button in the title bar of the Chrome window that allows you to switch profiles quickly.  Since I'm the only one that uses my computer, this is not really useful to me, and I'd rather reclaim the space for more open tabs.  I've looked in the settings but don't see a way to disable it.  How can I get rid of the button? C++ warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings] The cardinality of the set of all finite subsets of an infinite set Is their a way to move multiple vertices gradually at a time? I have moved multiple vertices gradually but a set of vertices at a time not all at a time, as shown in the animation below (First I moved the four vertices from top, then three, then two and at last the last vertex).  I wanted to do the same thing as shown in the animation below but all at a time. C# Settings.Default.Save() not saving? I am trying to install reaver 1.4, but when I run ./configure ; make I get this message at the end  int ret_val = EXIT_FAILURE, r = 0;   I have searched a fair bit and cannot find an answer, any help would be appreciated. I apologize if this has been answered and I've just failed to find it. A few months ago I was introduced to the new  type and was glad 's flaws with regard to time zones were finally taken care of.  However, I was left wondering if there were any overhead or problems that could occur from using this new type.  I work on a multi-locale web application. Does anyone know of anything that could sway me from just using it for all my date/time work? Is there a window for abuse here?  Reference: Is there a program to mount all of my drives automatically? How to wait in bash for several subprocesses to finish and return exit code !=0 when any subprocess ends with code !=0? From what I understand, entropy is a concept defined by the experimentalist due to his ignorance of the exact microstate of a system. To say the number of accessible microstates $W$ of the universe is constantly increasing is nothing more than saying 'ignorance begets ignorance'.  I have often encountered the argument of ever increasing entropy for the presence of an inherent time asymmetry, most prominently in the works of Penrose. It just doesn't seem to make sense.  Let us imagine alien beings who are experiencing time in reverse. For them, increasing ignorance is in the direction of our decreasing ignorance. So how can perpetual increase in entropy indicate an 'arrow of time'?  One possible explanation (I thought of) for this argument was the fact that there may never be a mechanism to reduce ignorance. I will pose this as a question:  An observer determines the number of possible microstates of system+observer to be $W_0$ at time $t_0$. After improving his measurements, can he (at a later time) measure $W'$ (where $W_0&gt;W'$) as the number of possible microstates? Assume that all the microstates are equally probable in this case.  Unless the above in false in general, how else can anyone claim that entropy reveals an arrow of time?  EDIT: I am performing this discussion for isolated systems (the universe or it's parts if relevant). The means I propose to reduce entropy in the present, is by redefinition of macroscopic variables and of microscopic models used to count the number of distinguishable micro-states (that obviously yield the same macro-state). This is essentially an argument against the robustness of entropy via redefinition. Unable to format internal drive as APFS on 2018 MacBook Pro What is potential energy truly? I want LaTeX not to give warnings for overfull hboxes up to some maximum of say 2 pts. How to achieve this? I have been building models with categorical data for a while now and when in this situation I basically default to using scikit-learn's LabelEncoder function to transform this data prior to building a model.  I understand the difference between OHE, LabelEncoder and DictVectorizor in terms of what they are doing to the data, but what is not clear to me is when you might choose to employ one technique over another.    Are there certain algorithms or situations in which one has advantages/disadvantages with respect to the others? Let $D$ be an integral domain and let $a^m=b^m$ and $a^n=b^n$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime integers, $a,b \in D$.   How do I show $a=b$? reversing plot axis for Plot, LogPlot, LogLogPlot Pollinator abundance---sampled two years, fixed or random effect? I'm trying to construct several GLMMs with my thesis data and I can't solve this question. I have data on pollinator abundance and fruit set from plant individuals (with different treatments - related to a pest infection -) sampled at six study sites (spatial replicas) and during two consecutive years (time replicas). The problem is that not all individuals (plants) were sampled in both years (because of lack of bloom). My question is: How should i use &quot;Year&quot;, as random effect or as fixed effect? I constructed three candidate models and compared the AIC: a) Response variable ~Predictor variables + (1 | year/plant) + (1 | site/plant) b) Response variable ~Predictor variables + (1 | year) + (1 | site/plant)  c) Response variable ~Predictor variables * year + (1 | site/plant) Option a) had the lowest AIC and the highest R2, but I read in some papers that is not correct use a variable with less than five levels as random effect ... so, anyone could help me? Can't paste data to question, get prompted for Image? $\lim_{h\to 0}\int \frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h}\,\mathrm{d}x = f(b)-f(a)$ Biliniear form to inner product Let $f:V\times V\rightarrow F$ be a bilinear form in a finite inner product space V.  If $F=R$, how can I prove that there exists a single linear transformation $T:V \rightarrow V$ so that for each $v,u\in V$, $f(u,v) = (Tu, v)$ ?  Would that sill be the case if $F=C$?