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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5190396" data-attributes="member: 19675">Actually, that's a tad off.You have to stab them through the heart with a wooden stake- in most of the older stories, made from one of just a few kinds of wood (ash, hawthorn and a couple others that have mystical connotations of purity and holiness)- THEN cut off the head and stuff its mouth with garlic, a Holy Symbol or the Host.Which, to my mind, is NOT supportive of crits & sneak attacks.  That's the description of disrupting of dire magics with certain designated materials and a ritual.  Stabbing them through the heart with a standard dagger 1.5B times, and they'll still keep coming back.(I'll grant you the modern zombie, though.)Yes, to a certain extent.To me, that doesn't support a blanket rule of allowing crits and/or sneak attacks.  To me, that supports the existence of a Feat or some kind of difficult skill check to determine whether or not a PC can gain the benefit of a crit or SA.  While most humanoid creatures will share a certain similarity of internal organs and what all, each construct (or type of construct) will have unique weak spots.  Talos' weak spot was in his ankle, yes, but that doesn't mean that EVERY Iron Golem's ankle is similarly vulnerable.</blockquote>