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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kennew142" data-source="post: 3970692" data-attributes="member: 18490">No, it's not. The fighter in question has been wounded severely, but not incapacitated. He has no penalty to any of his actions. His movement rate is not impaired. If he then kills the rogue before he can get hit again, he will not die, even without healing. If the sneak attack were an attack to an organ, he would be impaired in combat, his movement would be reduced and he would die without magical healing.To pick a more extreme example. Assume that the rogue sneak attacks a 200 hp dragon. The 40 points of damage he deals can in no way be assumed to be an organ hit. It's only 1/5th of the dragon's hit points.My point is that the assumption that sneak attack equates to an organ strike or a strike to the vitals doesn't work from a logical point of view. The damage on a sneak attack can be single digits. Against a triple digit opponent, this cannot conceivably be a strike to the vitals. The only logical way to look at sneak attack is as a precision strike that damages weak points. Even if a construct doesn't have vital organs, it has joints, a neck and most likely fractures within the stone that could result in massive damage from such a hit. Just ask any beginning sculptor or stonemason (assuming you can find such a person in this modern world).</blockquote>