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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbjore" data-source="post: 5484784" data-attributes="member: 27539">How does a rogue sneak attack an ooze? I have no idea. What I do know is that the rogue in my campaign sneak attacks all manner of crazy stuff all the time, and absolutely murders stuff in the process. If I ever get a chance to step across the barrier and ask the rogue, you can be sure it'd be one of the first things I'd ask. Until then, I just accept it, just like I accept the crazy Eladrin teleporting all over the place, those wizards burning things with both acid and fire at the same time, and that fighter's ability to convince every bad guy in a three square radius to walk right up to him and stand there once an encounter. There's lots of stuff in D&D that defies easy explanation, but there's also nothing in the 4E rules that says an ooze has no anatomy. The glossary just says they are amorphous. So as a DM when I'm pressed for an explanation on how sneak attack work I usually say something along the lines of, you ready your blade for the moment it reaches out with a pseudopod, and you swiftly lop it off, or while it is occupied by the fighter, you notice a slightly more solid bit that you believe may hold more of its neural network and plunge your blade deeply into the area. When the fighter prones and ooze, I describe it as smashing it against the floor, and the ooze must take a move action to collect itself.You could spend days arguing and discussing how things really work, and the rules are probably vague on a lot of those things in order to grant each group the freedom to describe how rule interactions should look in your mind's eye. So if you really feel that a rogue can't take advantage of a distracted opponent, talk it over with your rogue and make some rules. With my group though, I've found we're usually better serviced playing by the rules, letting each PC shine in the way it was designed to shine, and then thinking of imaginative ways for how exactly that happened.</blockquote>

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