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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Walker N. Waistz" data-source="post: 6040106" data-attributes="member: 5727">A rose by any other name. Same difference. Your experience sounds absolutely counter to my own. In 1E, and 2E, I and everyone else I ever saw play a Thief or Rogue spent every combat trying to get a Back-stab in. If there were never opportunities, the DM got an earful.Again, not like my experience at all. I never saw many folks use those feats. As in previous editions, in 3.x/4e most rogue-types I saw (especially the Essentials Thief) were pretty focused on bringing the big damage.To me, that capacity to deal extra damage by being clever in combat is elemental to the Rogue. I would not trade it to be a skill-monkey, especially when there may be lots of games that don't focus much on the Exploration pillar. I like Exploration, a lot, but not everyone is going to be into it. Any more than every D&D game has socializing on a significant level. But every D&D game will have combat.</blockquote>