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<blockquote data-quote="Ravingdork" data-source="post: 988014" data-attributes="member: 12084">They allow that alreadyThey don't have to &quot;allow&quot; anything. In 3.0 it states that you can sneak attack those you sneak up on so long as they don't know of your presence and don't have any reason to be wary.To be more specific, you cannot sneak up on and then sneak attack a guard because he will always be watching for something (if not you in particular). Likewise you cannot sneak up on and sneak attack that guy you were hired to hit if he knows he is a target of assassins (because he'll likely be watching out for you).So if you sneak up on victim A, and victim A hears the twig under your feet snap (a botched move silently roll) you can no longer sneak attack them because they know that there is something there.You can however, sneak up on and sneak attack victim B in a dark ally on their way home from the grocery store so long as cictim B had no idea you were there and had no reason to be wary (which a dark alley might be reason enough).I see no reason for this rule to change in 3.5</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ravingdork, post: 988014, member: 12084"] [b]They allow that already[/b] They don't have to "allow" anything. In 3.0 it states that you can sneak attack those you sneak up on so long as they don't know of your presence and don't have any reason to be wary. To be more specific, you cannot sneak up on and then sneak attack a guard because he will always be watching for something (if not you in particular). Likewise you cannot sneak up on and sneak attack that guy you were hired to hit if he knows he is a target of assassins (because he'll likely be watching out for you). So if you sneak up on victim A, and victim A hears the twig under your feet snap (a botched move silently roll) you can no longer sneak attack them because they know that there is something there. You can however, sneak up on and sneak attack victim B in a dark ally on their way home from the grocery store so long as cictim B had no idea you were there and had no reason to be wary (which a dark alley might be reason enough). I see no reason for this rule to change in 3.5 [/QUOTE]

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