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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gomer212" data-source="post: 6134549" data-attributes="member: 6746022">Excellent Post, Dethklok (Awesome User Name too).  I try to include certain hooks to allow a skills based rogue to contribute to a fight that would be otherwise to powerful for the group to defeat conventionally, but sometimes the Barb and Fighter simply want to beat something down and the rogue likes to contribute by flanking and rolling handfuls of dice.Very good points Ahnehnois, and yes, Penetrating Strike is what I was thinking of.  Looking over some 4th ed and 5th ed stuff, I see that in later editions it appears nothing is immune to critical hits.  I may try adapting this to my 3.5 game for a few sessions and see how it flows.Is there anything in 4th which is immune to flanking, do you guys know?  Since a group of 7 PCs including three fully armored melee chars and a blaster caster aren't too good at sneaking up on things, our rogue's biggest use of sneak attack comes when he is flanking.  Though, by RAW, this wouldn't work against things such as Elementals, Beholders, and Barbarians above 5th level.  I was considering revising this as well.</blockquote>