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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thudloderp" data-source="post: 8900431" data-attributes="member: 7034815">I disagree with this interpretation of the sneak attack ruling; interpreting that the advantage and disadvantage being cancelled out DOESN'T also imply that you no longer have advantage and disadvantage leads to rules wackiness where your conclusion cannot be logically true. The line in the rules re: advantage enabling sneak attack reads, "Alternatively, you can apply sneak attack damage if you have advantage on the attack," emphasis mine. Thus, the previous list of conditions (no disadvantage and adjacent to another active hostile target) no longer applies; this alternative check satisfies the conditions and sneak attack goes through, even if the attack is on a target surrounded by only open air and his allies, because so long as the attack roll has advantage, the rest of the conditions are ignored.THAT HAVING BEEN SAID, with regards to powerful strikes, because his roll has disadvantage and advantage, RAW suggests to me he can't use it, if we go hardball with the interpretation that the cancelled advantage and disadvantage are -still there-, just suppressed.. RAI by me would say 'I'd let him do it, but his neutral roll becomes a disadvantage roll, I don't -care- if advantage would normally cancel it out you don't get to powerstrike for free."</blockquote>