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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 1244599" data-attributes="member: 2011">With regard to why sneak attack is allowed, it seems that the designers were considering more the intent of sneak attack and coup de grace. Both have the intent of doing a precise blow that does serious damage.Power Attack, on the other hand, has the intent of doing an imprecise blow that may do serious damage, but at the risk of not hitting at all.So, sneak attack and coup de grace are compatible from a logistics point of view whereas power attack has the opposing logistics point of view.But to say that it is inequitable for sneak attack damage to add in and power attack damage to not add in assumes that those damages are comparable in usage and in the ability to acquire them.Any character with a STR of 13 can acquire Power Attack, but you have to be a dedicated Rogue to acquire any serious levels of Sneak Attack. Plus, Power Attack can be used nearly every single round in combat whereas Sneak Attack is extremely limited in it's combat use. If you think about it, if there is an inequity here, it is that Sneak Attack cannot be used as often as Power Attack and giving Sneak Attack a combat usage that Power Attack does not have is totally equitable.I do not find the concept of allowing one and not the other inequitable at all considering that one is an easy feat to acquire which can be used all of the time in combat and the other is a difficult class skill to acquire which can only be used infrequently in combat (plus the concept that one matches the concept of CDG and the other does not).</blockquote>

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