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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 5839050" data-attributes="member: 37277">Eyestalks are limbs.The femoral artery, located in the limb, is absolutely a vital area.Now, since you said it was explained in 1E, please find and cite where. And you can't use the "backstab" rules, because that's different from the rogue's sneak attack. Backstab required facing and attacking completely unnoticed and only from the back, so I'm fairly sure "vital areas" is not located anywhere in those rules.I mean heel stomp to the foot of a combatant.(First, I misspoke when I said sternal notch. I meant sternum and the xiphoid process.) So, in your game, the only way to score a sneak attack, ever, is to attack---where exactly? How does a rogue qualify to deal a sneak attack in your game? If it's covered by armor then you can't sneak attack it? That's exactly what you said above.I'm honestly curious about this now. The rules have a vague reference to vital areas with no specifics, but mechanically the only requirements that have to be met are denying the victim its dexterity bonus or flanking. There's no mention of called shots, which is what I'm inferring from your statement.I'm a rogue and I want to sneak attack someone in your game. What do I have to do in that game to qualify for and execute a sneak attack? Is it different from "The rogue’s attack deals extra damage any time her target would be denied a Dexterity bonus to AC (whether the target actually has a Dexterity bonus or not), or when the rogue flanks her target."?</blockquote>

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