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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9219765" data-attributes="member: 93670">You didn't answer my question, I'll try to rephrase it because it's an important one as noted in 228 how rogues already have the ability to add +dice using magic items like I mentioned & linked. Back in prior editions there was a higher bar to getting off a sneak attack were a lot more nuanced damage types that sometimes really mattered, most are pretty self expiatory<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The usual B/P/S</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Various elements</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the usual B/P/S but from weapons made from a specific material that targets certain creature defenses or has an alignment/particular +value needed by a creature defense.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alignment based</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Precision (sneak attack & maybe a couple others dealt this type of damage)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">untyped</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">others?</li> </ul>I'm not going to detail all of those but precision damage worked to provide full damage against nearly every monster except monsters that were immune to crits (ie constructs, undead, oozes, etc).  As a result there was a meaningful difference between +precision dice & +some other type of dice. All of that is no longer true in 5e so...<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sneak attack has such  low bar that it's almost guaranteed now so there is no reason to have magic items that lower the bar there.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There can't be magic items that expand what the user can damage like was possible  with precision dice because the only exceptions are probably just highly specific monsters (none I can think of) that are somehow  melee immune or whatever.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Damage types have had their value as a meaningful distinction muddled & watered down to the point of making it a pointless distinction for +sneak dice over +element dice or whatever</li> </ul>After all of that it looks very much like the only benefit of items that add sneak dice specifically  seems to be that they would stack with elemental weapons & guarantee the party rogue is always the most deserving PC for such an item no matter what .  That's probably not a good or even reasonable need to justify such a magic item... Can you give a good reason why such an item is needed mechanically or should even exist?</blockquote>

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