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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 1773796" data-attributes="member: 22882">WotC and most other companies seem to think, Unearthed Arcana notwithstanding, that sneak attack is worth more than a typical feat.AEG's Rokugan book has a feat that adds +1d6 sneak attack (Bayushi's Technique, I believe), but it's for Scorpion Clan humans only and has two or three other feats as prerequisites.WotC made its extra sneak attack feat an Epic feat.Nonetheless, in my experience, sneak attack is a valid use for a feat and not really unbalancing.  It's very strong, but very situational.  Really, even taken to the max, it's still not going to do as much damage as an optimized Power Attack.As for stepping on the rogue's toes... any fighter can eventually become an assassin or invisible blade and get sneak attack, in the latter case without losing BAB.  The Rokugan ninja gets full sneak attack progression with a full BAB.  Many base classes in Arcana Unearthed get half sneak attack progression, and many prestige classes from lots of sources get half or full.  It's not exactly exclusive. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>