So I'm a fairly new player in the game Dungeons &amp; Dragons (D&amp;D). I'm known about the game/played a very loose version of the game a little over a year ago and I started getting serious about ten-eleven months ago. Currently, I am still learning about the game, its concepts, and how to play. Something I would love to try is DMing. But there are a few problems with that:  I'm still not a master at the game and I'm still learning I'm not sure if I have all the resources.  So I'm asking you guys! What would be the most important to get for an inspiring world builder and D&amp;D player? The Dungeon Master's Guide, the Player Handbook, or the Monster Manual? I currently have some beginner level stuff that just teaches you the basics, but what if I want to go deeper?
I have GM'd several RPGs before that are not D&amp;D (Fate, Deathwatch, Star Wars). We first tried to play D&amp;D using the 3.5 edition and it went horribly — too many books and too many options with no idea of where to start.  I have been told that 5E takes care of all that and is easier and more fun so I want to try that but I would like a definitive list of what I need.  I expect that the kinds of books we need divide up like this:   Rulebook for me as GM Rulebook for players Fluff for everyone Monster book for me as GM   Links to these would be helpful as we got very confused with the 3.5 books — who should use what books confused us.  What other things do we need to play a campaign? I expect things like:   Dice: what kinds and how many of each kind, roughly. Models and maps. Do we need these? Does 5E need models and a grid or can it be played without (which is preferred)?   Is there anything else that we need that I haven't anticipated?
I'm planning to buy a new Android phone and I'd like to be able to transfer the progress I have made at several games to the new device, so I won't have to play all the levels again from scratch.  I currently have an HTC Desire and will buy an HTC Evo 3D.  There's probably no simple/general solution to this.  But I was wondering if anyone did something similar and could provide some advice (e.g. where to look for files that might hold game progress information). Help us test the alpha version of our Android app We are in the early stages of development of the official Stack Exchange Android app and we need your help with testing. To set a few expectations: there will be bugs, crashes, and missing features, all of which will be fixed in .    We are initially targeting Android devices running  (Android 4.1 or higher) starting with phones (up to ~5 inch) and eventually moving our way to tablets.    To register for alpha testing .  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Conjugate class in the dihedral group Evaluate $\int_{\gamma} \frac{ |dz| }{z} $ where $\gamma $ is the unit circle I need to evaluate $\int_{\gamma} \frac{ |dz| }{z} $ where $\gamma $ is the unit circle.    Attempt: Let $\gamma(t) = e^{it} $ where $t \in [0,2 \pi]$. How can I get rid of the absolute values in the differential? The probability that an initial quantum state $|\psi_i\rangle$ becomes the final quantum state $|\psi_f\rangle$ is given by  \begin{eqnarray} P(i \rightarrow f) &amp;=&amp; |\langle\psi_f|\psi_i\rangle|^2 \tag{1}\\ &amp;=&amp; \langle\psi_f|\psi_i\rangle^*\langle\psi_f|\psi_i\rangle \\ &amp;=&amp; \langle\psi_i|\psi_f\rangle\langle\psi_f|\psi_i\rangle. \end{eqnarray}  Equation (1) seems to show that the probability for the transition ($i\rightarrow f$) can be interpreted as the system both moving forward in time ($i\rightarrow f$) with amplitude $\langle\psi_f|\psi_i\rangle$ and backward in time ($f\rightarrow i$) with amplitude $\langle\psi_i|\psi_f\rangle$ simultaneously.  Does this reasoning help to explain the Born rule? (Is it like the Transactional Interpretation of QM?)  I guess we must experience the macroscopic direction of time ($i\rightarrow f$) in accord with increasing entropy in an expanding universe whereas microscopically QM works both forwards and backwards in time.  Addition  This is an improved version of the argument including time-evolution operators.  The probability that an initial quantum state $|\psi_i\rangle$ evolves to become the final quantum state $|\psi_f\rangle$ is given by  \begin{eqnarray} P_{i \rightarrow f} &amp;=&amp; |\langle\psi_f|U_{i \rightarrow f}|\psi_i\rangle|^2 \tag{2}\\ &amp;=&amp; \langle\psi_f|U_{i \rightarrow f}|\psi_i\rangle^*\langle\psi_f|U_{i \rightarrow f}|\psi_i\rangle \\ &amp;=&amp; \langle\psi_i|U^\dagger_{i \rightarrow f}|\psi_f\rangle\langle\psi_f|U_{i \rightarrow f}|\psi_i\rangle \\ &amp;=&amp; \langle\psi_i|U_{f \rightarrow i}|\psi_f\rangle\langle\psi_f|U_{i \rightarrow f}|\psi_i\rangle \end{eqnarray} where $U_{i \rightarrow f}$ is the forward-time evolution operator and $U_{f \rightarrow i}=U^\dagger_{i \rightarrow f}$ is the corresponding backward-time evolution operator.  Equation (2) seems to show that the probability $P_{i\rightarrow j}$ can be interpreted as the system first evolving forwards in time and then evolving backwards in time.  Perhaps this is an example of Murray Gell-Mann's  that "Everything not forbidden is compulsory"? At the quantum level, below observable probabilities, there is nothing to stop time flowing both forwards and backwards. Parental controls with different settings for different users Does anyone know of a good way to set up some sort of parental controls so that one user account is subject to them, but not another?  A couple of friends of mine use Ubuntu and have kids (7 to 10 years old) who use the family computer. They'd like to have some blocking of adult sites. They're not going to supervise all the time, which I know might be ideal, but there we go. And they're not particularly technical, so they don't want to have to run scripts to turn the parental controls on and off regularly, but they can cope with having different accounts for different people. I haven't found a great way of doing this. I am pretty technical, so I'm happy to spend some time at the command line to set it up, but then it needs to just work.  Please don't just link to DansGuardian. If your answer doesn't address the different user account aspect, I will vote it down. If you want to talk about general parental controls that apply to all users then please start a new question - I'm sure that plenty of people would be interested in it, and I'll link to it from this question. Does the Rogue's Assassinate feature grant criticals on multiple attacks? Does the Rogue's Assassinate feature (auto-crit on surprised targets) allow for multiple crits if you make multiple attacks that round, either through two-weapon fighting or extra attacks gained through multiclassing?  As an example: my 3rd level Human (Variant, TWF feat) Rogue-Assassin rolls high on his stealth roll, and gets up behind his target.  With two daggers, he gets 2 attacks per round if he uses his bonus action as well.  Do both of these attacks qualify for Assasinate's auto-crit feature?  That is: would I do 2 criticals for       4d4+4d6+2*DEX damage   or a single critical and a non-critical for       3d4+4d6+2*DEX damage?   Additionally, if I gained the Extra Attack feature through multiclassing, would I get crits on all 3 of my attacks, or just the first one? What is the difference between a function decorated with  and one decorated with ? Do tag edits count for Archaeologist? I know tag-edits do not count towards the 500 edits required for the Copy Editor badge. Do they count to the 100 for the Archaeologist badge? It seems they should because you are making a 6-month-inactive post active again. wrong positioning of figure with tabular in xelatex I recently updated MikTex and it seems Xelatex is not able to place figures correctly anymore. Before updating all figures were shown correctly. I work with Texworks and Miktex 2.9  Here it is the code that I run:  \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{report} \usepackage{graphicx} \graphicspath{{method1/}{method2/}{dpfig/}}  \begin{document}  \begin{figure}[!htbp] \centering \begin{tabular}{cc} \includegraphics[trim=6cm 2.5cm 6cm 2.5cm,clip=true,width=0.33\textwidth]{figure1.eps}&amp; \includegraphics[trim=6cm 2.5cm 6cm 2.5cm,clip=true,width=0.33\textwidth]{figure2.eps}\\ \end{tabular} \caption{Two figures} \end{figure} \end{document} \end{figure}   With this code, figures are correctly trimmed and the relative position between figure 1 and figure 2 is maintained. However, the position in the document is wrong: figure are placed upper and more right than expected (as the bottom-left corner of the table was placed in the middle of the page). The unusual thing is that this does not happen in draft mode and picture are shown centered as it would be.  I usually compile with Xelatex, Makeindex and Bibtex.  I hope to have been clear.. bye!  EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to add the images I prepared from the file that run that script: Community isn't on ~15 sites! I was looking at the Community user's profile, and I noticed that there was about 15 sites missing in the "accounts" tab. There's a little over 120 sites on SE, and, there's about 15 sites missing from this count. Why is this happening?    Additionally, clicking on view more just shows one account, on Area51: How did the DeLorean travel to 1885? At the end of Back to the Future II, a lightning bolt hits the DeLorean which sends it back to 1885.  At the time though, the DeLorean wasn't moving; it was relatively stationary hovering in the storm.  Yet, it's emphasised repeatedly that the DeLorean must reach 88 miles per hour (which becomes a key plot point in Back to the Future III).  So, considering the DeLorean wasn't traveling at 88mph when the lightning struck the DeLorean sending it to 1885, what is the in-universe explanation of how it travelled there?  Some other factors to bear in mind:   If a lightning bolt was sufficient to send the DeLorean time traveling, then the 88mph business would be irrelevant Note that there are the firey tracks left after the DeLorean time travels in the '66' shape.  The thing to note about this though is that we never see these before the DeLorean disappears.  These tracks are always appearing after the DeLorean has traveled away.  This would seem to indicate that the DeLorean did move, but following the activation of the time circuits. This question dovetails with this post on .  I am familiar with some of larger, paid-for business registry's like  and .  While the detailed information their business listings database include (like # of employees, annual sales, industry code, etc) is fantastic, if you are on a limited budget, sometimes the cost of purchasing the data outweighs the value you can get from it.  If you have geocoding capabilities in house, one could potentially create a reasonable surrogate by spatially-enabling (geocoding) a publicly available business listing on your own.    If you were looking to take on this type of project, where would you start your research? Do you know of US agencies at a State or National level that maintain this type of information, AND are publicly available for download or minimal purchase? Novel about a man who has his car stolen and is cryogenically frozen with his cat? So this is a bit of a memory game of my behalf, but I'm trying to remember the name of a (presumably) Sci-Fi novel with only a recollection of the following:   A man owns a (yellow?) car parked outside his house along with a cat The car goes missing or is stolen The man decides to be cryogenically frozen for 75 (fairly sure, could be 50?) years along with his cat (I might be muddling up novels but I'm sure there was a cat...?) He takes a walk along the street X years in the future when he wakes up and the currency he has in his pocket is now worthless   I don't think I got that far into the book and all the above happened relatively early.  I read it about 10 years ago and at a guess, it's an 80's novel - all of the above details might be inaccurate, but I'm certain about the cryogenic freezing and the currency aspects.  I'd be surprised if this one gets anywhere! EDIT:  The vector space for the $(\frac{1}{2},0)$ Representation is $\mathbb{C}^2$ as mentioned by Qmechanic in the comments to his answer below! The vector spaces for the other representations remain unanswered.  The definition of a representation is a map (a homomorphism) to the space of linear operators over a vector space. My question is: What are the corresponding vector spaces for the   $(0,0)$ Representation $(\frac{1}{2},0)$ Representation  $(0,\frac{1}{2})$ Representation $(\frac{1}{2},0) \oplus (0,\frac{1}{2}) $ Representation $(\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2})$ Representation infinite dimensional Representation? I have a laptop that has Windows 8 which I use for playing Minecraft. However when using the inventory, I have to hold my mouse to drag and pick the items and I don't like that.   I have tried switching mouses but that didn't work, is this possible to fix? What points in the complex plane satisfy $|z|=arg(z)$. Disable the numbering of algorithms My problem is that I do not know how to disable the numbering for algorithms. I have created an algoritm and its number is "Algorithm 1", but I want to have "Algorithm".  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage[noend]{algorithmic}  % Hide endif .etc  \usepackage{algorithm}  \algsetup{indent=2em}  % Default 1 em  \renewcommand{\algorithmiccomment}[1]{\hspace{2em}// #1}  % Change to C-style comments, though still ugly  \begin{document} \begin{algorithm}     \caption{MyAlgorithm} \label{alg:MyAlgorithm}     \begin{algorithmic}[1]     % Default no line numbering        \end{algorithmic} \end{algorithm}  \end{document} Case insensitive 'Contains(string)'