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How does the telepathy supernatural ability work? According to the MM books, telepathy is described as:     A creature with this ability (supernatural) can communicate telepathically with any other creature within a certain range (specified in the creature's entry, usually 100 feet) that has a language. It is possible to address multiple creatures at once telepathically, although maintaining a telepathic conversation with more than one creature at a time is just as difficult as simultaneously speaking and listening to multiple people at the same time.   Source: MM, MM3   My questions:   If a creature with telepathy knows that someone is within 100ft, can the creature communicate with that person, even if there is no line of effect or sight?  My answer would be yes, because no book says that telepathy is blocked by walls, etc. Normally, a supernatural ability is a standard action to start. If the creature wanted to communicate for more than one round using telepathy, does the creature need to use up a standard action every round they are communicating or only in the first round?  My answer is only in the first round, since the description says that maintaining telepathy is hard as speaking and listening normally. If a person the creature is communicating with moves out of the 100ft range, and then moves back into the range. Does the telepathic link need to be established again?  My answer is yes, another standard action is needed to establish the telepathy between the two creatures.   I should add the telepathy is supernatural, and a character is looking at getting it from the Mindbender class (from Complete Arcane). And also get the Mindsight feat (Lords of Madness). I couldn't find anywhere to rule whether a supernatural ability should take a standard action every round it is on. No matter where I look, I just can't find gnome number [insert number here]. Where can I find every gnome in the game? Find $\sum\limits_{k\, \text{ odd}} \frac{2(k^2-1)}{k^4+k^2+1}$ Why is the word 'number' abbreviated to 'No.' in UK English and '#' in American English? Why the disparity? And why use 'No.'? Is it from the French?  And the hash or pound sign seems a weird choice too, is there a history or any reason involved? I'm using Terminator version 0.97. Is there a way that I can scroll unlimited? In the current version I only can scroll back limited history Tourist to F1 change of status within 60 days I have a PhD place at a US university starting Aug 21 but want to visit a different university for casual research for 6 weeks from July 1. This is longer than the 30 day grace period for the F1. Can I arrive on the visa waiver program or tourist visa in July and then just stay on for the PhD? I guess I might need to change status. Will this work?  Please don’t suggest exiting and reentering, that’s too expensive.  (British masters student in UK) How to Mount Guest DOS OS with HOST OS.? I am newbie to VM concept. actually i have installed DOS6.22 under virtualbox and using 32bit windows 7 OS as HOST Operating System, now i want to copy some folders/files from HOST OS to DOS6.22 Guest OS. how can i copy.? "going to come down" vs "going to have to come down" What is the difference between the following sentences?        This fence is going to come down.   This fence is going to have to come down.      I have doubt that when you are saying fence is going to have to come down, that is enough to say it right? but why I hear in movies saying fence is going to have to come down, is there a difference between them? What is the difference between the command  $ env FOO=bar baz   and  $ FOO=bar baz   What effect does env have? Quantifiers "most" vs. "most of" Minecraft item right/left click detection How do I get rid of this unwanted bar from Eclipse? Can't connect to wireless 13.10 I have ubuntu installed as the sole OS on a T420. Before this I had installed the #! distro (and Xubuntu before that) and wireless worked seamlessly on either. My home hotspot shows up but when I click on it tries for a while before disconnecting.  Before going into the problem further, I wanted to double check that I entered the wifi password for my home network correctly. I went to Edit Connections >> Wi-Fi Security and changed the key, but it is still not able to connect. So I think the password is definitely correct. I don't understand why it can't connect now. The camera in Far Cry 3 is useful for tagging enemies from a distance but also includes the ability to take pictures.  This does not seem to do anything useful when used on animals or enemies.  Is there a purpose? This book came out of the 1970s (early 1980's) at the latest. In it the protagonist, a not so diligent student, gets turned on to computer programming and creates (I think..) a weather program.   Eventually he moves on and years later the program contacts him. It has become an AI and he is its creator.  I forget what the setup is post contact which is not helpful at all.. Anyone knows what software tool is used to draw these circuit schematics I was reading online and found this site:   I was very curious how this professor drew all these circuit diagrams in his lecture notes (such as this one: ). They just look very very good.   And example is shown below:      To be more specific about what I mean, by "publication quality" I mean the following:   The software must output vector graphics, such as eps, or windows meta files. It would be good to have control over the style of the graphics, such the style of the components, line width, figure size, etc. It would be good to have a graphical user interface. I understand LaTeX is very powerful but it's just too painful to write a 100 line script to generate a circuit diagram.   So in short, I'm not really looking for a schematic capture program. I'm looking for a program that can generate pretty circuit schematic illustrations so that I can put them in papers and presentations.  (I am aware of other posts on this forum, such as this one: .  None of the software mentioned in that post seems to get you publication quality figures.) Optimizer not choosing index union plan Why is the following query slow?  select count(*)   from [dbo].[mt_dispatch_link]     , [dbo].[_mt_dispatch] [_mt_dispatch]  where   (mt_dispatch_link.contract_id_1 = _mt_dispatch.contract_id       and mt_dispatch_link.dispatch_id_1 = _mt_dispatch.dispatch_id)     or   (mt_dispatch_link.contract_id_2 = _mt_dispatch.contract_id       and mt_dispatch_link.dispatch_id_2 = _mt_dispatch.dispatch_id)     It takes over 10 minutes, and then I tend to stop it at that point. My question is more about how to make sense of the query plan.  Looking at the query plan I can see that the bottom clustered index scan is returning about 250000 records, but the cost is 0% and it is being put into a temporary table.  The top index scan is about 25000 records.  But the cost of 95% comes from the nested join. What conclusions should I draw from this?  The above query plan shows two index scans, does that mean it is doing 25000 + 250000 index scans, or does it mean that it is doing 25000 * 250000 index scans?  If I change the query to this (adding FORCESEEK):  select count(*)   from [dbo].[mt_dispatch_link]     , [dbo].[_mt_dispatch] [_mt_dispatch]       WITH (FORCESEEK)  where   (mt_dispatch_link.contract_id_1 = _mt_dispatch.contract_id       and mt_dispatch_link.dispatch_id_1 = _mt_dispatch.dispatch_id)     or   (mt_dispatch_link.contract_id_2 = _mt_dispatch.contract_id       and mt_dispatch_link.dispatch_id_2 = _mt_dispatch.dispatch_id)   I end up with a much better plan and the query runs instantly:    I ran update statistics on both tables. Didn't fix it unfortunately. The table design is not very good, so I think SQL Server doesn't really understand and is thus coming up with a poor query plan. Some more info about the table design at .  Why is the query optimiser not coming up with the optimum plan? I often read outputs in the terminal that get wrapped as they are too long. Since there is no way that I can modify the printed output, I need to let the Terminal allow for horizontal scrolling.  Is there a modification I can make to the default OS X Terminal to disable line wrapping and allow for horizontal scrolling?  Or do you know another alternative I can use? findstr /v "black"  File1.txt   Above DOS command will display content of 'File1.txt' which are not matching string "black".  How to modify this command , if I need to filter words "black" and "white" ? Let's suppose I'm a wizard casting a ranged spell. An enemy is behind cover but I suspect he'll come out, so I ready an action to cast at him when he comes out; but I don't want to risk getting charged at by another enemy and losing concentration or taking disadvantage. Can I say:  "I ready a spell. When that guy over there leaves cover, or when any enemy gets within 5 feet of me, I will cast it on that enemy"?