u/Chellhound

It's me; I'm the returning player.

Significant improvements over launch, I'll say. I'm looking forward to another campaign - and it looks like the AI won't crumple to any army with a handful of professional units anymore, so that's nice.

Could be worse, could be hospital IT.

but good luck actually doing that with an animal companion.

You can do fun things with a Roc, but you need to dedicate the build towards it.

If it does a full attack on a player, it gets a bite and 2 tentacles?

Yep, bite and two tentacles.

Is the 2 tentacles attack one attack with 2 tentacles, or would I roll 2 separate tentacle attacks and deal damage twice and each of them also get a grapple attempt.

The latter - two attacks, two free grapple attempts if they hit.

Also, if the first tentacle successfully grappled, would it still get the attack from the second tentacle?

Grappling doesn't prevent you from completing your full attack - the second attack goes through, but you can skip the grapple check since you're already grappling.

Also, on future turns when it makes a grapple attempt to deal damage, would it get to do damage with both tentacles on the grappled player and constrict twice?

Nope - you spend your standard action to maintain the grapple (remember your +5 bonus for maintaining), and if you succeed you automatically get your constrict damage and can also attempt to pin them, move them, or just deal the tentacle damage without having to roll. You can't full attack without dropping the grapple, so it's a bit of a risk to grapple a single combatant if the rest of the party is dangerous.

>My understanding is the second tentacle could use that to separately grapple another creature that’s within its reach but not on the same target

If you took the -20 on the CMB roll on both checks, I suppose. Otherwise, you can only grapple one creature at a time.

(Though you can, of course, houserule it if you think it'd be more cinematic.)

Such a broad question can only be answered with an "it depends", but I'll share my experience prior to deploying to Iraq in 2008ish in a Marine infantry battalion as an NCO.

• There was roughly an hour-long class on basic "how not to offend the locals" etiquette that focused on stuff like "don't show the bottom of your shoes", "don't try to talk to women", "don't reveal that you're an atheist*", that sort of thing.

• There was some sort of DoD computer training game where you were tested on basic Arabic vocab and customs. I did it for a couple of hours and then never heard of it again.

• We got a small booklet of common Arabic phrases and there was a bit of group practice, but only a couple of sessions.

• During the pre-deployment workups our grunts (not me) would patrol through simulated towns and be judged on their ability to not be wildly offensive to the locals in addition to stuff like spotting/reacting to ambushes.

I expect/hope the officers and SNCOs had more training along those lines; I was primarily responsible for keeping computers and radios talking to each other and did not spend much time outside the wire.

But then you had people like this genius handing out Bible verses to Iraqis waiting for entry aboard a base, so not everyone got the message.

* which, as an atheist, I found a bit irksome but understood the wisdom of.

don't remember how anymore sadly, but I could maybe try to work backwards later?

Not a whole lot of reverse engineering required: 4 CHA + 3 skill ranks plus Fast Talker (+1 trait, +3 class skill) = 11.

Fun fact, an enemy could also ignore both your illusions by simply closing their eyes and blinding themselves.

Yep. My brawler recently dealt with a mirror image by quickly learning blind fight and shutting his eyes.

Adderall.

I ran him with the mythic ranks added in and he died before he was able to act. Depending on how your group's been handling the rest of the AP, I'd say it's perfectly fine to buff him significantly, including mythic ranks.

Any time, good luck!

If it somehow breaks their account, then it breaks their account - presumably at that point you'd need them to come in - but the underlying point is that I don't see a way for krbtgt changing to do so. Rolling krbtgt will not break a computer's trust relationship with the domain, so as long as the computer account isn't remotely reset, disabled, or otherwise changed, the computer account will still be able to auth and build the ldap bind from there.

I understand the concern, I try to avoid being impactful on my users as well. There should not be any issues. If you have the time, you can verify this by taking a machine off the network, rolling krbtgt twice over a very long period, and then bringing the machine back online.

Domain trust won't be broken, just active sessions.

Nope, shouldn't need to do anything, VPN's using saved creds or (hopefully) cert-based auth, so the intial auth works as expected, generates a TGT, and you're off to the races.

Recently went through this as well - users may have had to log in again / restart their machines. Rolling krbtgt doesn't break the computer-domain relationship, it just means existing sessions get stale.

Excepting mythic games, but those are silly.

Precision Critical (Ex) (Mythic Adventures pg. 49): Whenever you score a critical hit, double any extra precision damage dice, such as sneak attack damage. These dice are only doubled, not multiplied by the weapon's critical modifier.

A lot of good contenders already mentioned, but one I recently heard and appreciated is:

"Uptime is a measurement of how long it's been since you've proven that the server can boot."

Much like a human user account, you'd provision it with permissions related to its responsibilities and level of trust, and have it file a ticket for any additional permissions.

I'm in the very early stages of rolling out agents in my environment, and I'm keeping a very tight rein on them for now. How free you'll want to be with permissions is going to largely be a function of your confidence in the agent and your confidence in your guardrails.

In 2016, screening (e.g. 20 minute phone convo between the recruiter screen and the onsite loop) for one of the FAANGs, I wound up using FizzBuzz. Whichever language they wanted, pseudocode was fine if they didn't remember the exact function names.

It still filtered out a good 80% of applicants, all of whom had at least five years' experience.

With that experience in mind, I wonder what fraction of a fraction of candidates are passing the hardcore leetcode style interviews. (I also wonder if those candidates are useful for regular developer/operational work.)

Yep. We're installing a proof-of-concept GPU server right now and harnessing up Qwen (and others) to handle both interactive chat and do some ticket/chat decoration. It's an exciting time right now in tech. Terrifying, but exciting.

Yeah, that's when you send the carefully worded "per our conversation, I'll be doing $thing despite $risks." email.

Fable, max effort mode, take about 15 minutes to blow through the monthly budget for the team.

For something larger and repeatable I'll generally give Claude a detailed prompt and then review the output.

I still write PowerShell for ad-hoc investigation/incident response/tinkering - doing a foreach over a bunch of files and piping the output to another command is easier to type than it is to prompt.

I'm worried about deskilling, but I haven't noticed ill effect thus far. I still check everything Claude generates every time, though, at about the same level of scrutiny I'd give a junior level's PR.

So they apologize for saying you're not allowed to slander people with no evidence?

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We have very different Pathfinder experiences - Possession (and even moreso greater) is one of the best spells in the game. Suffocation is another - yes, you're targeting fort, but it's stellar for casters. Shadow Projection can trivialize whole dungeons, let alone individual encounters

As others have pointed out, Fear is excellent crowd control, Blindness is solid for a 2nd/3rd level spell, ghoul touch is effectively a 2nd level save or die, Ray of Exhaustion is a great debuff - especially against anything raging, and Boneshatter is another 'even if you save, you're still in trouble' spell.

And that's only the 'cast during combat' spells.

Conjuration and Transmutation have more utility, sure, but a competent necromancer is terrifying.