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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WonkaMania" data-source="post: 1302504" data-attributes="member: 11035">Here's a question that I've been wondering about concerning damage reduction and a rogue's sneak attack. Say we've got a creature with DR 5/cold iron. Now let's say we've got a Halfling Rogue who uses a regular (i.e.- NOT cold iron) dagger (1d3 damage, no str bonus). He's flanking said creature with DR so gets to add his sneak attack damage. The Rogue can only do a maximum of 3 "normal" points, but let's say he has 2d6 in sneak attack damage. Even though his "normal" damage did not do enough to bypass the creatures DR, what happens to the sneak attack damage? Is it rolled and then added to his "regular" damage for purposes of beating the DR? (so, let's say he rolled a 3 for his dagger attack, and sneak attack damage totalled 8. That's a combined damage of 11 points. Would this all go towards the DR, so 5 gets taken away because the creature has DR 5, and the remaining 6 points hurt the creature as normal?)OR, since the "regular" damage did not beat the creature's CR, the sneak attack damage is just "lost" and doesn't count? (this would suck.. lol) Please let me know!  (3.5 mainly, but if it's different in 3.0 I'd like to know also). Thanks in advance!~Wonka</blockquote>