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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 3967601" data-attributes="member: 42582">D&D characters, even those without magical abilities, have physical attributes no real-life human being (even the steroid-enhanced!) has ever enjoyed. They also have the mental drive of Hercules or Achilles. They are  beloved of the gods. And, as the rules are written in 3E, they can defeat lions and tigers in combat with their bare hands (from somewhere around 10th level or so, for a fighter, and so probably at 20th level for even the most scholarly magic-user trapped in an anti-magic zone).Given this, complaints about rogues sneak-attacking elementals as killing suspension of disbelief strike me as odd (or, perhaps, rather idiosynchratic). Particularly because, as someone else posted above, sneak attack can easily be read as a particularly well-timed or vicious blow, rather than as one which hits a vital area.Btw, for those who think that you can't sneak attack an iron golem because it has no vitals, does that mean that you envisage an iron golem reduced to 0 hit points as having been pounded to rubble? If not, and to stop it all one has to do is lop of its foot (or whatever), then why can't a rogue be doing that with a successful sneak attack?</blockquote>