I have agreed to introduce a friend to D&amp;D but I haven't played since AD&amp;D 2nd Edition. I was more often a player than a DM but I am okay with performing that role. I will be starting our part off with the 5th edition Starter Set but is there anything I need to be aware/careful of making the transition?
I played 1st and 2nd edition AD&amp;D a lot back in the day. But when 3rd edition came out, I dropped out of the hobby. Partly I just couldn't be bothered to re-learn the rules. The conversion systems, previews and material for 3rd edition I was seeing in Dragon and Dungeon magazines made it look like a very major change.  I recently picked up the new 5th edition starter set on a whim. Obviously the starter set rules are very stripped down in comparison to the full rules, but nevertheless, I was amazed by how comfortable and familiar the system felt. The only thing that felt like a truly radical change was the way things like thief skills and the like were now handled with a d20 instead of a percentage system.  There's plenty of information online (and here) comparing editions of the game in an incremental manner. But I'd be interested in a breakdown of how 2nd and 5th edition compare directly, specifically looking at whether there are broad areas of similarity.
I am a little at a loss.  A couple years before my mother-in-law passed away she signed her house over to my wife and her sister via a quitclaim deed.    After she passed we sold the house for $80,000. The money was used to pay off the mortgage, some other funeral expenses, and sent $15,000 to other family members.  All the money was dispersed at the closing of the house.  My wife and her sister each ended up with about $20,000.  How do we go about claiming this income?  Since there was a quitclaim deed I guess we technically owned the house for a few years prior to its sale.  How does that affect our tax and what is the basis?  Is the basis the selling price(fair market value) or something else?  How much does each sister claim for gains?  Sorry it this is a jumble of questions I am just trying to get this straightened out before tax is due. System.Exception: Too many SOQL queries: 101 I am getting a Too many SOQL queries: 101 error on a trigger when I am trying to deploy another trigger.  I am posting the trigger which is causing the error.  trigger rollupAccountShowings on Account (before insert, before update) {    if (trigger.isinsert) {       for (Account a:Trigger.new){           a.No_of_Viewings__c = 0;        }    } else {      for (account a : [select                   id,                  (select id from pb__Showings__r)                  from account                   where id in:trigger.new LIMIT 1]) {           trigger.newMap.get(a.id).No_of_Viewings__c = a.pb__Showings__r.size();      } }   Can anyone correct me where I have gone wrong and suggest me the changes.  Thanks I have started a long process through a terminal. Is it possible to make the Ubuntu terminal make a sound once the process is complete? This way, I don’t need to keep checking, but will instead be notified through a sound. Fix for word of power quest bug at Arcwind Point When I picked up the word of power at Arcwind Point, the quest didn't get removed from my quest log. If I select it, the arrow still points to the wall even though there is no word to collect anymore. The monks at High Hrothgar won't give me a new word power quest since they don't realize that I finished this one.  I can see in the Unofficial Elder Scrolls pages that this is a known issue.   My question is now, is there anything I can do about it? I don't want to reload a previous save since I have done much since it happened. I didn't realize until hours afterwards what had happened.   Note: I am on Xbox 360 so the Unofficial Dawnguard Patch is not an option. Counting the Lotto number draws which contain consecutive numbers When and where do I have the highest chance of seeing auroras? I'm wondering what time of year is best, and what locations might be best, for catching the aurora.  I'm currently thinking of February up at Sweden's ice hotel, but since the whole point of the trip is so that my wife can see the Aurora, I want to pick a location that affords the best chances to see one.  Edit: Just adding a link so you can see realtime aurora activity in the northern hemisphere    I know this is anecdotal, but I ended up going to Iceland in late february during the new moon and saw the aurora 3 out of 6 nights I was there.  There was activity every single night but the biggest problem was weather.  It was cloudy almost every single night. When is a function too long? In contemporary American English usage, I come across sentences like:   I ain’t got no money.  Ain’t no man like him.    Saying ain’t no sounds incorrect to me because it is a double negative.  What is the origin of this particular construction? I wasn’t able to find anything online related to the origins of this incorrect usage. I need to set weights for some edges from a python script. I have tried looping through object.data.edges and setting bevel_weight values but I can't get it right. It only works if I have first edited some edge's bevel weight by hand from the 3d-view's transform window. But I would like to get it work from my script without any manual hacking.  Steps to reproduce:  Start Blender with default cube and switch to Scripting view.  Try to set weights for all edges:  for edge in C.object.data.edges:     edge.bevel_weight = 1.0   Verify that values changed:  for edge in C.object.data.edges:     edge.bevel_weight   Switch into edit mode in 3d-view and open up transform window by pressing n. Select edges to see that the change did not work (bevel weights are all zero). Switch back to object mode and read values again in scripting console to see that they were reset to zero:  for edge in C.object.data.edges:     edge.bevel_weight   Go back to edit mode and change some edge bevel weight straight from the transform window by hand. Go back to object mode and change values again from the scripting console:  for edge in C.object.data.edges:     edge.bevel_weight = 1.0   This time it works, bevel weights are 1.0 when you go back to edit mode and look from the transform window.   Any ideas? My final need is to apply a bevel modifier to only some set of edges and that's why I'm trying to mark them by using weights. Using vertex group for bevel modifier does not work in my situation, since I need to specify edges, not vertices, which to bevel.   I'm using Blender v2.71. Applying for a UK Tourist Visa from outside country of origin File changed listener in Java I'd like to be notified when a file has been changed in the file system. I have found nothing but a thread that polls the lastModified File property and clearly this solution is not optimal. Polygonizing a raster yields lots of little squares? I have a pdf with the area of a county that I want to separate into multiple shapefiles (polygons) based on color.   As shown in the first picture there are 4 colors so I would need to separate based on color between those four. But first, I need to convert it into a vector (unless there is an easier way).   Doing so, I get the second image as an output by using the polygonize tool which when zoomed in very close, has a lot of tiny squares where color should be different. I was wondering if there is a way to break a raster up by color even though the image isn't smart. TikZ or cryptocode package for cryptographic protocol diagrams normal subgroups of Alternating group Klein's $4$ group, $\{1\}$ and $A_4$ are three normal subgroups of $A_4$. I want to know about any other normal subgroups of $A_4$. Do these exist? I am new to photography, and need a little advice. I currently have a .   To get rolling, where do I go from here? Does the camera matter? Is this camera enough to start with? multiple prints on the same line in Python I am trying to implement  using additive ElGamal.  I am trying to run the full protocol mentioned in Section 3.4 on the following inputs:   $p = 17$ (prime) $g = 6$ (generator) $x = 5$ (private key) $k = g^x \pmod p = 6^5 \pmod{17} = 7$ (public key)   Suppose the clients inputs are 1, 2. Then $P(x) = (x-1)(x-2) = x^2-3x+2$, and therefore the coeffiecients to encrypt are $(1, -3, 2)$. I chose $y = 10$ and so the encrypted values are:   $1$ becomes $(15,12)$ $-3$ becomes $(15, 1)$ $2$  becomes $(15, 4)$.   The Server Side Input Set $S=\{1\}$ and the random value $r0$ corresponding to $\{1\}$ is $r_0=2$.    With the above problem in context, I have some questions:   What does P 0,j refer to in Step 7. Can you please give an example? In Step 8, suddenly variable i is introduced along with j. What does i, j, refer to? In Step 8, ENC() function has a ; in between. How do we interpret ENC(a;b)? Is empty set element of every set if it is subset of every set? This problem is from Discrete Mathematics and its Applications  My question is on 9b. I know that the sign represents an element is a member of. (from book)  I know that the O with a slash across it is the empty set which &quot;is a special set that has no elements&quot;. From , I got that the empty set is a subset of all sets, meaning that every member of the empty set(nothing) is also a member of any other set. Based on all of this, for 9b, would {0} contain the empty set because it fundamentally has the elements that consist of the empty set(nothing) or does it physically have to have the empty set? Proof for $e^z = \lim \limits_{x \rightarrow \infty} \left( 1 + \frac{z}{x} \right)^x$ Q1: Could someone provide a proof for this equation (please focus on this question):   $$e^z = \lim \limits_{x \rightarrow \infty} \left( 1 + \frac{z}{x} \right)^x$$  Q2: Is there any corelationn between above equation and the equation below (this would benefit me a lot because i at least know how to proove this one):  $$e = \lim \limits_{x \rightarrow \infty} \left( 1 + \frac{1}{x} \right)^x$$ PostGIS nearest points with ST_Distance, kNN I need to obtain on each element on one table the closest point of another table. The first table contains traffic signs and the second one the Entrance Halls of the town. The thing is that I can't use ST_ClosestPoint function and I have to use ST_Distance function and get the min(ST_distance) record but I am quite stuck building the query.  CREATE TABLE traffic_signs (   id numeric(8,0) ),   "GEOMETRY" geometry,   CONSTRAINT traffic_signs_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id),   CONSTRAINT traffic_signs_id_key UNIQUE (id) ) WITH (   OIDS=TRUE );  CREATE TABLE entrance_halls (   id numeric(8,0) ),   "GEOMETRY" geometry,   CONSTRAINT entrance_halls_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id),   CONSTRAINT entrance_halls_id_key UNIQUE (id) ) WITH (   OIDS=TRUE );   I need to obtain the id of the closest entrnce_hall of every traffic_sign.  My query so far:  SELECT senal.id,port.id,ST_Distance(port."GEOMETRY",senal."GEOMETRY")  as dist     FROM traffic_signs As senal, entrance_halls As port        ORDER BY senal.id,port.id,ST_Distance(port."GEOMETRY",senal."GEOMETRY")   With this I am getting the distance from every traffic_sign to every entrance_hall. But how can I get only the minimun distance?  Regards,