I realise the title is somewhat ironic.  I have started playing a new game, it is exciting, well-paced, suspenseful; everything an rpg-er like me could ask for.  The issue is the description of, well, everything, is lacking. The GM is feeling a bit inferior in that respect. Some examples might be:   You are in the town square, with a large group of people in it, not too packed, but movement will be somewhat restricted A short, gruff man answers the door. He only stands about waist-height and appears to be drunk. You enter the clearing, The forest surrounds on all sides, save a gap in the trees opposite you. A web covers the ground with a hole in the middle that looks like a tunnel entrance   It's not that he's withholding information, he just doesn't have anything else to say.  He approached me about it, saying he wanted to improve on his story telling, and I gave him some advice, but I don't really have much experience in that area myself. What practices can he implement to try and boost him along to improving?
Whenever I'm running or playing a game, I consistently run into an issue of setting atmosphere. I've realized the best way to do this is through more effective, engaging descriptions of settings, actions, and objects that the characters see and feel.  As a player, I feel that my actions are generally "I attack the goblin," or some variation thereof, but I'm afraid that I'll stumble over my words and further confuse the other players and I'll resort to "I attack the goblin" as to not drag the game out longer.  As a DM, my issue tends to be more with setting atmosphere with settings, locations, and objects. Effectively, the flavor texts that comes with walking into some amazing location that the characters (not necessarily the players) should be suitably impressed by. My goal here is to engage the players with some degree of spectacle, and be more inquisitive in their environment and whatever lies within it.  How can I create more descriptive, concise flavor text for the games I play in?
Reason for LCM of all numbers from 1 .. n equals roughly $e^n$ I computed the LCM for all natural numbers from 1 up to a limit $n$ and plotted the result over $n$.  Due to the fast-raising numbers, I plotted the logarithm of the result and was surprised to find a (more or less) identity curve ($x=y$).  In other words, $LCM(1, 2, 3, ..., n)$ appears to be roughly the value $e^n$.  Is a there a simple explanation on why this is so?  $LCM(a, b, c, …)$ shall be defined as the least common multiple of all arguments $a, b, c, …$ Set the maximum character length of a UITextField How can this English sentence be translated into a logical expression? ( Translating " unless") You cannot ride the roller coaster if you are under 4 feet tall unless you are older than 16 years old.   Let:   $P$ stands for "you can ride the roller coaster" $Q$ stands for "you are under 4 feet tall" $R$ stands for "you are older than 16 years old"   Is this logical expression correctly translated?  $$P \rightarrow (Q \wedge R)$$ I have this table definition as part of a invoice  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}[ht]{lXrr}%   It worked fine for years until I have a very short word in the X column for the first time. Now my table is very small in width and centered horizontally on the page.  In my expectation the X column should fill up all space until the width of the table reaches the width of the page except the margins.  I have read about workarounds specifying something like 1.2\textwidth, but I don't like that, because the table is a template included via \include, so it would affect all my invoices.  I also tried \linewidth, \hsize and \columnwidth, but everything results in the same layout.  Is there a way to make the only X column expand so that it uses all available space?    Complete included table definition (Rechnungstabelle.tex):  \newcommand{\Rechnungstabelle}[4]{% vielen Dank für Ihren Auftrag. \noindent \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}[ht]{lXrr}% \toprule% \bf{Anzahl} &amp; \bf{Bezeichnung} &amp; \bf{Einzelpreis} &amp; \bf{Gesamtpreis} \\% \midrule% #1% \bottomrule% &amp; \bf{Rechnungsbetrag}  &amp; &amp; \bf{\EUR{#2}} \\% \ifthenelse{\equal{#3}{}}{}{&amp; Enthaltene MwSt. 19\% &amp; &amp; \EUR{#3} \\}% \ifthenelse{\equal{#4}{}}{}{&amp; * Enthaltene MwSt. 7\% &amp; &amp; \EUR{#4} \\}% \end{tabularx}% }   Changing the table header row to  \bf{Anzahl} &amp; \bf{Bezeichnung} \hspace{\textwidth} &amp; \bf{Einzelpreis} &amp; \bf{Gesamtpreis} \\%   is a workaround, but I don't think that would be good TeX style.  Minimum example for reproducing:  \documentclass[ fontsize=12pt,                  paper=a4,                 foldmarks=TBMPL,                 fromalign=center,                 ngerman                 ]{scrlttr2} \usepackage{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenx} \usepackage[right]{eurosym} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{ltablex} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{ifthen}  \input{Rechnungstabelle} \begin{document} \begin{letter}  \Rechnungstabelle{     1,0 h &amp; Do something &amp; \EUR{99,00} &amp; \EUR{99,00} \\      }     {99,00}     {}{} \end{letter} \end{document} Grid System in LaTeX No version of Ubuntu can be installed with any Skylake 6th generation Intel processor Special package combination gives "No room for new \write." How to sort text in sqlite3 with specified locale? Sqlite3 by default sorts only by ascii letters. I tried to look in google, but the only thing I found were informations about collations. Sqlite3 has only NOCASE, RTRIM and BIARY collations. How to add support for a specific locale? (I'm using it in Rails application) How do I convert a Word file's references to .bib format How do I convert a Word file's references to .bib format? Is any tool available  to convert it to .bib format? How to connect two Dell P2415Q 4k displays to MacBook Pro 2016 What's the best way of connecting two Dell P2415Q 4k displays to the MacBook Pro 2016 with TouchBar and TouchID?  I have the monitors connected to an older MacBook Pro currently with two mini-DisplayPort cables. Can I somehow reuse those cables or do I need new ones?  Apple's support page  lets me know that:  "Note that although it uses a Mini DisplayPort connector, the Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter doesn't support connections to Mini DisplayPort displays."  So I guess reusing the cables is not the way to go? I think I accidentally pressed something to make it like this:    See how the XYZ arrows are at the 3D cursor instead of those vertexes I've selected?  How do I fix that? Whenever I select on a vertex or something, those blue, red, green arrows would always be where I selected, now it just keeps going to the 3D cursor. Desperate to locate and re-read exceptional book/series, but cannot remember the title. The high concept: The U.S. has just sent the first successful expedition to Mars, and it has just landed. As the astronauts make their initial exploration outside their ship, a tear in the fabric of space opens up right in front of them, and they look through to the insides of a laboratory (at a California university?) and two students who just figured out how to create arbitrary portals between two points in the Universe. The rest of the novel/series is a consequence of this breakthrough. But I can't remember the author and title(s). Surely someone reading this forum will remember it well! TIA.  (Reposted .) C# Unsafe/Fixed Code Got less output with print0 option on find? I have read the man page and other references, but I am still confused by the behavior of find with -print0 option.  -print0      This primary always evaluates to true.  It prints the pathname of              the current file to standard output, followed by an ASCII NUL              character (character code 0).   First command:  $ find /some/path/ -iname "*intro*jpeg" -o -iname "*intro*jpg" 2&gt; /dev/null /some/path//asdf199Intro-5kqlw.jpeg /some/path/199intro-2jjaj.JPEG /some/path/199intro-3.jpg /some/path/wuer199intro-4.JPG /some/path/xbzf199INTRO-1.jpg   Second command:  $ find /some/path/ -iname "*intro*jpeg" -o -iname "*intro*jpg" 2&gt; /dev/null -print0 /some/path/136intro-3.jpg/some/path/wuer136intro-4.JPG/some/path/xbzf136INTRO-1.jpg   I can see that the the filenames from the second command are null character separated, but why do I get 3 output as opposed to 5 above? How can I run a script that starts before my login screen? I was calibrating my touch screen, and saw that the best tool around was xinput_calibrator. So I used it. It have two options (one of which did not work), so I am here for the second. It says I should execute this command "in a script that starts with your X session":  xinput set-int-prop "3M 3M USB Touchscreen - EX II" "Evdev Axis Calibration" 32 14410 2146 14574 2115  So I tried ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsession and ~/.xsessionrc, all of which did not exist. So I created them and the exact content was this command. The first two files made my logins fail (after I login, I fall back to the login screen).  With the last file, the calibration was functional, but only after logging in...  I need that command to run before the login dialog shows up. I thought of adding this command to the end of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc with no result (nothing changed). Also, I tried to add it to the end of /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc (after inspecting some of the files), but the result was exactly the same as adding it to ~/.xsessionrc.  How can I make this command run before the login screen shows (is this before the window manager starts, or before the X session starts)?  (I am running Kubuntu with the default window manager, if that matters)  UPDATE As I am using Kubuntu, my display manager is kdm. As the accepted answer suggests, I edited the file /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup, and as mentioned  I added the command before the command that is there by default. And it works like a charm :) How to find a program which is preventing sleeping? I am noticing that recently my laptop does not go to sleep/lockout after its configured X minutes of inactivity like it did in the past. I suspect some program (like media player does) is preventing it from going to sleep. I do not have any media player running, so how can I find which program is preventing it from sleeping?  It does go to sleep if I close the lid. But I would also like for it to go to sleep after X minutes of inactivity.  Update: Upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 with default Gnome and Wayland enabled. Exercise on infinite series: pointwise product between convergent serie and unbounded sequence I am not able to solve this exercise. I've tried everything.     Exercise Let be $a_n &gt; 0$ a sequence and suppose that $\sum a_n$ converges. Prove that exists a sequence $c_n &gt; 0$ such that $\lim c_n = \infty$ and $\sum c_na_n &lt; \infty$   I don't even know if I have to find an "always-valid" closed form for $c_n$ (maybe in function of $a_n$?) or prove its existence in another way.  Thanks in advance. Is there a way to determine how many digits a power of 2 will contain? Is there a direct way to determine how many digits a power of 2 will contain without actually performing the multiplication?  An estimation would help as well if there is no absolute solution.  EDIT: In both decimal and binary bases. Arbitrary intersection of closed, connected subsets of a compact space connected? Let $(B_i)_{i\in I}$ be an indexed family of closed, connected sets in a compact space X. Suppose $I$ is ordered, sucht that $i &lt; j \implies B_i \supset B_j$.  Is $B = \bigcap_i B_i$ necessarily connected?  I can prove it, if I assume $X$ to be Hausdorff as well: If $B$ is not connected, then there are two disjoint, closed, nonempty sets $C$, $D$ in $B$, such that $C \cup D = B$. Now these sets are also closed in $X$, hence by normality there exist open disjoint neighborhoods $U$, $V$ of $C$ and $D$, respectively.  Then for all $i$: $B_i \cap U^c \cap V^c \ne \emptyset$, since $B$ is contained in $B_i$ and $B_i$ is connected. Thus we must also have  $$ B \cap U^c \cap V^c = \bigcap_i B_i \cap U^c \cap V^c \ne \emptyset $$  by compactness and the fact that the $B_i$ satisfy the finite intersection property. This is a contradiction to the choice of $U$ and $V$.  I can neither see a counterexample for the general case, nor a proof. Any hints would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks,  S. L. How do I escape the wildcard/asterisk character in bash? For example:  me$ FOO="BAR * BAR" me$ echo $FOO BAR file1 file2 file3 file4 BAR   and using the \ escape character:  me$ FOO="BAR \* BAR" me$ echo $FOO BAR \* BAR   I'm obviously doing something stupid.  How do I get the output BAR * BAR?