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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 3557354" data-attributes="member: 13703">It had never actually come up in our game before last night's session.  I actually happened to be a player last session (I'm normally the DM) but not the player that this rule affected (the Rogue was attacking someone on the ground).  My initial reaction was that "of course if you are on the ground you're flat-footed".  It just seemed logical and reasonable as Dross suggested.When I actually looked up the definition of prone I was surprised that it didn't mention that you were or weren't considered flat-footed.  I therefore assumed that, because it didn't state explicitly that you were flat-footed,  it meant that you weren't.  However I have found in 3.5E that sometimes there is an obscure reference on some other page that says otherwise.That's why I started this thread, to see if there was a rule somewhere that I was missing, or a page reference that I had missed.In the game it didn't matter in the end.  The Rogue did enough damage without adding in sneak attack damage to kill the guy anyway.  I just wanted to double check and clarify the rule before next session in case it came up again.  No-one was using it as a house rule or anything like that.  This was just the first time that the situation had occurred in the campaign.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>