Short version: Do melee spell attacks take into account armor when the range is Touch?    Longer version: Assuming a prepare an  (PHB253) spell, that has the following properties:   Range: Touch Description: Make a melee spell attack against a creature you can reach. On a hit [..]   Assuming that the opponent that I choose as a target has a total 15AC:   10 Base 3 Armor (possibly natural armor) 2 Dexterity   What should my attack roll be to successfully hit? 15 (the whole above) or 12 (since just touching, armor offers no protection)?
Does D&amp;D 5E have a mechanic similar to  or  as it exists in D&amp;D 3.5?  To put it simply, in D&amp;D 3.5, touch AC excludes armor bonuses when armor can't help against an attack, and flatfooted AC excludes your Dexterity bonus when you haven't acted yet in combat.
How does the summoning ability affect the encounter difficulty? The Drow Mage (CR 7) has the Action Summon Demon (1/day), which allows him to summon a shadow demon (CR 4). Is the shadow demon already included in the CR of the Drow Mage, or do I have to count the shadow demon as an extra creature to determine the difficulty of the encounter? Searching for Google contacts not in Groups Possible Duplicate:          In Google Contacts, I've had Groups set up which look like this: All Contacts.. Family.. School.. Work.. etc.  Each contact I have is assigned to All Contacts. In addition, it is assigned to at least one more Group.  Sometimes when I add contacts, I forgot to bucket them in the respective groups, so I was wondering is there anyway I could do a search for contact that belongs toAll Contact-group, but does not belong to any other group ? PHP PCRE (regex) doesn't support UTF-8? Concurrent requests limit exceeded - how to find the problematic code I am a developer for a Salesforce org that serves as a community portal for thousands of users. We have been consulting with a large team of developers for years and everything we have is custom coded. Our pages are built using AngularJS to remotely call Apex code. We are on an Unlimited Edition org and we are nearing 90% of our total allowed code. We have a lot of callouts to external services and many times these callouts can run long.  We are now running into issues where users are seeing the "Unable to Process Request - Concurrent requests limit exceeded" error. The issue is there is so much code written by so many different developers it is hard to identify what/where the problematic code is. Sometimes users see this error when they are trying to perform a callout. Sometimes it's when they are inserting a record and triggers are firing. The long-running code issue can be anywhere in our org. Another issue is error handling has been done very poorly, so if any process does run long, we most likely are not looking for it or logging it.  Other than enhancing the logging on our callouts, I do not know where to even begin to find other problematic code. Every developer before me has written code with no regards to limits, so inefficient code can be anywhere. Is there any way or best practice to being able to analyze such a complex org and find where the problems may be? All I can think of is enhanced logging EVERYWHERE, but that may not be the best approach and would be very time consuming, especially considering how many developers we have constantly writing and pushing new code.  I have tried to replicate the issue in a sandbox however I cannot seem to get it working. I wrote Javascript to remotely call an Apex method that waits for 6 seconds. I called this remotely 11 times at once, causing 11 synchronous transactions running concurrently each longer than 5 seconds. However instead of getting the concurrent limit error, each Apex transaction just errors out with a timeout.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am not familiar with the majority of the code/functionality of our org, so I do not know how to really solve this issue considering I don't even know what could be problematic aside from long running callouts. Thanks! "big enough to do this" My question is what is the difference among these three sentences.   He is big enough to do such  heavy works. He is not big enough to do such heavy works. He is small enough to do such  heavy works.   I am so much confused between 2 and 3.Also, I don't get what the 3rd one means. Recently I have learned how to draw simple stuff with TikZ. I really like it. Now I wonder if it is possible to draw with TikZ on a image. Instead of pasting a image in Illustrator and adding some vectors to point something in the picture I would like to do it using TikZ. Is it possible?   For example, on a picture of a computer (PNG,etc) I would like to draw some arrows and labels saying "Keyboard", "Monitor", etc. how can I add an overlapped anchor in both overlapped paths automatically How I can add an anchor point for each intersected selected paths in illustrator automatically?  I know smart Guide and add anchor point tool can do the job but it will add just one anchor in the front path only. If I use pathfinder outline or the scissors my paths get cut and I have to re-join them again one by one. Hero who is against enhancements but has some himself Do people sometimes get blocked by a webservice for things someone else has done with their dynamic IP-Address It is common practice for operators of web services (e.g. web sites) to block IP addresses when there was malicious traffic originating from that address.  It is also common practice that internet users don't have a static IP address but get one assigned by their ISP via DHCP.  Now I would expect that it sometimes happens that a specific IP address gets banned from a service and later that address gets assigned to another user, leaving the new user (temporarily) banned from the service for no apparent reason. However, I never had this problem or heard of someone having that problem.  Does this sometimes happen? If not, what prevents this from happening? Can we continue to show the "Take a tour" banner after a user has created an account? When you view a Stack Exchange site without being logged in, you see a friendly banner, prompting you to take a tour and understand the features of the site:    This links off to a high quality resource that can help new users understand how the site works. However, the moment a user signs up to the site, this banner disappears from immediate view and hides itself as a link under the help menu.  My proposal is to continue showing this banner until one of the following conditions are met;   The user gets the "Informed" badge The user reaches a set amount of reputation (250 or 500 should be sufficient) The user chooses to hide the banner   This should increase the exposure of the tour to new users, who are the people who need the tour, rather than hiding it the moment a user signs up. We've got a Windows 10 installation running in an environment where it can occasionally lose power and restart. However, this sometimes leads to corruption of files.  I've had a look at Windows "To-Go" but this seems to be persistent. And I've also checked out virtualisation, but that would require us to run a non-persistent Windows 10, in another Windows 10 environment.  Is it possible to install Windows 10 as a "non-persistent live CD"? So that a user will have a seemingly fresh Windows 10, but doesn't require to re-install it at each startup? Is there such a thing as a restore point in Ubuntu? Windows has this. Basically what I want is to record the state of the system either manually or periodically and then restore to that point if required. For example, before upgrading the distribution, or before installing a certain package.  What would be the easiest way to do this? From the  on the dual of a norm:  $X$ and $Y$ are normed spaces, and we associate with each $f\in L(X,Y)$ (the space of bounded linear operators from $X$ to $Y$) the number $$\|f\| = \sup\{|f(x)|:x\in X, \|x\| \leq 1\}.$$  At some point in the proof that $L(X,Y)$ is bounded, it seems like they use the inequality $$\|fx\| \leq \|f\|\cdot\|x\|,$$ where $\|x\|\leq 1$.  I can't see why this should holds.   $\|f|\|$ is the supremum of what $|f(x)|$ can be, given that $\|x\|\leq 1$. So, given that $\|x\| \leq 1$, $|fx|$ should be bounded by $\|f\|$. But why should it be bounded by $\|f\|\cdot\|x\|$? $_POST empty on utf-8 characters Are there alternatives to LibreOffice? HTML and CSS is not working? Using article "the" with famous places? I'm editing a children's book about wonders of the World. In this book, the authors are not native speakers(they are XACT BOOK(India)), and they wrote these specific places without article "the":     -It is Taj Mahal.      -It is Tower of Pisa.   At first, I thought it's okay, but there are some pages has article "the":     -It is the Great Pyramid of Giza.      -It is the Temple of Artemis.   These sentences really make me confused. After researching, this website- - gives me some advice:     Do use the before:           names of rivers, oceans, and seas: the Nile, the Pacific          points on the globe: the Equator, the North Pole          geographical areas: the Middle East, the West     deserts, forests, gulfs, and peninsulas: the Sahara, the Persian Gulf, the Black Forest, the Iberian Peninsula      Unfortunately, I'm still not sure that adding "the" before each wonder's name is a right choice. Should I add article "the" or not? I already posted this problem in , but I'm still in vain. Can I leave the Schengen Area (and come back) while my non-eea spouse resident card application is being processed? My wife and I recently moved to Germany. She's a Swedish citizen, and I'm American. It'll be December before I can actually apply for my residence card, because my appointment to register our address is so far out - the local police station was all booked out and we didn't get an apartment right away.  I imagine that I won't be getting my residence card until well after Christmas, by which time my 90/180 days will be passed. What if I want to leave to, say, London for the holidays? Will I be allowed back in? I hit day 90 around the 21st of December. I could maybe leave on day 89 and come back on day 90 (with my wife and our marriage cert), or use this Polish solution: , since I can't be expelled from Germany for overstaying my visa while my application is processing.  Both of those seem a bit risky though. Am I reading too far into it, or is this a legitimate concern? Will I get some sort of documentation saying I have a residence card application processing? How can i set different wallpapers for Ubuntu 15.04 login and Desktop This has been bothering me very much. i have memory that Ubuntu 12.04 had this configuration? am i wrong? finally, is it possible for the login screen to have different wallpaper from the desktop? is this possible in Ubuntu 15.04? i would appreciate a stable understandable response. thanks :)  -ben Logarithm as limit lists this as a limit representation of the natural log:  $$\ln{z} = \lim_{\omega \to \infty} \omega(z^{1/\omega} - 1)$$  Is there a quick proof of this? Thanks