Ampersand: Sneak Attack

[Campbell]

Biggie Smalls, the halfling rogue from WotC_Huscarl's reports on Gleemax uses a hand axe and short sword combo, or a sling. But no hand axe is listed among the rogue's proficiences. And it's unlikely to be a halfling specific weapon. Curious.

Biggie is a ranger.

 

[helium3]

Biggie Smalls, the halfling rogue from WotC_Huscarl's reports on Gleemax uses a hand axe and short sword combo, or a sling. But no hand axe is listed among the rogue's proficiences. And it's unlikely to be a halfling specific weapon. Curious.

Maybe he only uses the short sword for his thiefy powers and the hand-axe for . . . anything else.

 

[mach1.9pants]

I suppose that rapier has become the iconic DnD Rogue weapon only because it was the best standard option for most Rogues in 3E. Up until then it was a 'Sir Not Appearing in the Edition...'
Is Biggie-small a Rogue, man I thought he was a ranger throughout.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Biggie is a ranger.

Less curious.

 

[jasin]

In melee, if you do not use a light blade, you can't sneak attack. Makes perfect sense to me.

No katanae-wielding ninjae? No hammer-wielding dwarf rogues? No rapier-wielding duelists?

Although I suppose there might be mechanics along the lines of "... treated as a light blade for the purposes of...".

 

[Campbell]

No katanae-wielding ninjae? No hammer-wielding dwarf rogues? No rapier-wielding duelists?

Although I suppose there might be mechanics along the lines of "... treated as a light blade for the purposes of...".

Katanae are light blades. Have you not watched any anime?

 

[Spatula]

A club is not a precision weapon. A sling is, and iconically so.

And a bow is not?

But I'm not sure where precision comes into it. "Once per round, when you have combat advantage against an enemy and are using a light blade, a crossbow, or a sling, your attacks against that enemy deal extra damage." Now, some of the rogue abilities, like Piercing Strike, are different. But sneak attack merely requires that the rogue has a "combat advantage" over the target.

 

[The Little Raven]

And a bow is not?

The more ranged weapons and abilities you give the rogue, the less unique the ranger gets. If you want to be a ranged striker, ranger is where it's at.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

In R&C it says:

A rogue with a high Intelligence score gains a flat bonus to all trained skill checks.

That seems to be gone. I can see why: it would have pushed the "clever rogue" archetype, but would have added quite a bit of MAD.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Well not necessarily that would be something that would happen with all characters not just rogues, so why would it be in the rogue section of the PHB?

The article doesn't talk much about skills, so that wouldn't have come up.

It actually fits in with something I put down a little while ago in the other forum about skills:

"Ability Modifier + Class Level + Skill Points + Intelligence Modifier.

This could go with the idea that with more intelligence you more easily learn how to do something, but you would still require the basic ability to perform it well. So like the ability is how you use it the intelligence is how you refine and perfect it.

So as such Intelligence isn't used to gain extra skill points when you divide out your skill points each level, instead it is a stock number you gain from your Intelligence modifier for all skills, or perhaps could be intelligence score if skill points are much higher this time around."