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<blockquote data-quote="God" data-source="post: 6654581" data-attributes="member: 4038">Lots of poor assumptions being made tonight. I understand how the feat works. I fail to see how gaining one extra sneak attack a round on a reaction ends the game, considering a) at low levels sneak attack damage is relatively trivial, even if a character grabs Polearm Master early; b) at high levels there's an opportunity cost - every feat is a missed opportunity to boost an ability score and every 1d6 of sneak attack is one or two levels of rogue that could have been spent on some other class, like this mythical, sneak attacking fighter you keep mentioning. If a fighter wants to dip at least three levels of rogue (recall, if you can, that we're talking about potential archetype abilities) and delay or miss out on extra attacks and other useful abilities just to (situationally) get a few extra d6 of damage, I say go for it. He gets precious little else of use dipping rogue. The straight-class rogue gets the most damage out of the deal, but she's burning feats to do it and putting herself in melee, where she's less than optimally-equipped (again, the context of the discussion was a Strength-based rogue archetype).So, you know, say a few Hail Marys and you're forgiven. Or keep trolling, whatever floats your boat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="God, post: 6654581, member: 4038"] Lots of poor assumptions being made tonight. I understand how the feat works. I fail to see how gaining one extra sneak attack a round on a reaction ends the game, considering a) at low levels sneak attack damage is relatively trivial, even if a character grabs Polearm Master early; b) at high levels there's an opportunity cost - every feat is a missed opportunity to boost an ability score and every 1d6 of sneak attack is one or two levels of rogue that could have been spent on some other class, like this mythical, sneak attacking fighter you keep mentioning. If a fighter wants to dip at least three levels of rogue (recall, if you can, that we're talking about potential archetype abilities) and delay or miss out on extra attacks and other useful abilities just to (situationally) get a few extra d6 of damage, I say go for it. He gets precious little else of use dipping rogue. The straight-class rogue gets the most damage out of the deal, but she's burning feats to do it and putting herself in melee, where she's less than optimally-equipped (again, the context of the discussion was a Strength-based rogue archetype). So, you know, say a few Hail Marys and you're forgiven. Or keep trolling, whatever floats your boat. [/QUOTE]

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