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<blockquote data-quote="karolusb" data-source="post: 5331533" data-attributes="member: 83359">Playing in encounters the other night, and I make a bad attack roll, and declare backstab to try to turn it into a hit.&nbsp; One of the other guys at the table said that is not how it is supposed to work.&nbsp; &nbsp;Backstab:Free ActionTrigger: you make an attack roll (and other conditions not relevant to the example)Effect: Gain a +3 power bonus to the attack roll and deal 1d6 extra damage if the attack hits. &nbsp;compare to &nbsp;Elven accuracyFree actiontrigger you make an attack roll and dislike the resulteffect: reroll the attack etc.&nbsp; &nbsp;So my question is should backstab be declared only before the attack?&nbsp; &nbsp;My read is that I could use it on a possible miss to try to generate a hit.&nbsp; But I could also declare it after certain hit for assured damage.&nbsp; That might be more powerful than was intended, but I am not picking up anything in the language that indicates otherwise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="karolusb, post: 5331533, member: 83359"] Playing in encounters the other night, and I make a bad attack roll, and declare backstab to try to turn it into a hit. One of the other guys at the table said that is not how it is supposed to work. Backstab: Free Action Trigger: you make an attack roll (and other conditions not relevant to the example) Effect: Gain a +3 power bonus to the attack roll and deal 1d6 extra damage if the attack hits. compare to Elven accuracy Free action trigger you make an attack roll and dislike the result effect: reroll the attack etc. So my question is should backstab be declared only before the attack? My read is that I could use it on a possible miss to try to generate a hit. But I could also declare it after certain hit for assured damage. That might be more powerful than was intended, but I am not picking up anything in the language that indicates otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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