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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Votan" data-source="post: 5190238" data-attributes="member: 18680">I am kind of mixed.  Sneak attack got a lot stronger in 3/3.5/PF then in 1E/2E.  Making some creatures immune to it makes it harder to balance the rogue as a character class given how much of an important feature it is.  Some creatures still resist it (just as some creatures resist magic) but it isn't as hard to have the rogue over or under perform.  You see the same thing in 4E, where many powers are flavored to (for example) effect minds (but work on the mindless) or to trip (but work on oozes).  An equally effective design tactic would be to reduce the impact of sneak attack and give other rogue abilities; if this type of fix were seen as undesirable.</blockquote>