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<blockquote data-quote="heliopolix" data-source="post: 1543498" data-attributes="member: 15956"><p>This has been bothering me for a little while. Im not sure exactly what the problem is, or even if ther is one, but here goes. There are several types of Precision Based Damage (PBD). A short list (IMHO) is: Rogue's Sneak Attack, Ranger's Favored Enemy, Point Blank Shot, and the Swashbucker's (CW) Insightful Strike. There are several things that deal with/ affect/ deny PBD, but they are pretty contradictory. Maybe its because my definition of PBD is incorrect, i dont know. Anyways, Exhibit A: Things that Cant be Crit'ed. Skeletons, Zombies, Elementals, etc. No Criticals and also No SA, per Monster Manual. The Fortification Enchantments to armor do the same thing, in varying degrees. Exhibit B: Concealment/Invisibilty. Cannot critical or SA a creature with a miss-chance. Incoporeality/Ethereality (sp?) ditto. Suspect Feat #1: Manyshot. It allows multiple arrows to be fired w/ one attack roll, but only allows PBD to apply to the first arrow. Verbatum from 3.5 PHB : "<strong>Special:</strong> Reguardless of the number of arrows you fire, you apply precision-based Damage (such as sneak attack damage) only once. If you score a critical hit, only the first arrow does critical damage, all others deal regular damage." I guess what im really complaining about is the lack of a clearly defined list of what counts as PBD (or a lack of my ablity to find one). Can you use Point Blank Shot vs a Zombie? Is Favored Enemy PBD? Would Fortification Armor protect vs. Favored enemy and point blank shot? Useful comments and scathing crticism welcome!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="heliopolix, post: 1543498, member: 15956"] This has been bothering me for a little while. Im not sure exactly what the problem is, or even if ther is one, but here goes. There are several types of Precision Based Damage (PBD). A short list (IMHO) is: Rogue's Sneak Attack, Ranger's Favored Enemy, Point Blank Shot, and the Swashbucker's (CW) Insightful Strike. There are several things that deal with/ affect/ deny PBD, but they are pretty contradictory. Maybe its because my definition of PBD is incorrect, i dont know. Anyways, Exhibit A: Things that Cant be Crit'ed. Skeletons, Zombies, Elementals, etc. No Criticals and also No SA, per Monster Manual. The Fortification Enchantments to armor do the same thing, in varying degrees. Exhibit B: Concealment/Invisibilty. Cannot critical or SA a creature with a miss-chance. Incoporeality/Ethereality (sp?) ditto. Suspect Feat #1: Manyshot. It allows multiple arrows to be fired w/ one attack roll, but only allows PBD to apply to the first arrow. Verbatum from 3.5 PHB : "[b]Special:[/b] Reguardless of the number of arrows you fire, you apply precision-based Damage (such as sneak attack damage) only once. If you score a critical hit, only the first arrow does critical damage, all others deal regular damage." I guess what im really complaining about is the lack of a clearly defined list of what counts as PBD (or a lack of my ablity to find one). Can you use Point Blank Shot vs a Zombie? Is Favored Enemy PBD? Would Fortification Armor protect vs. Favored enemy and point blank shot? Useful comments and scathing crticism welcome! [/QUOTE]
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