Sneak Attack Question

[Angelsboi]

If you flank someone and you have sneak attack, can you keep using sneak attack?

Example:

Dorf the fighter is on the right side of Mojo the wizard. Feiht the rogue is now on his right side and has 3 attacks. Can the Rogue use sneak attack on all three his attacks?

I say this is too powerful

 

[Axiomatic Unicorn]

Yes. You can.

(Was the question simply rhetorical?)

 

[hong]

Yes. As to whether it's too powerful, note that a rogue who makes a habit of staying in melee combat range (so as to get a full attack) is probably being unwise. d6 hit points and probably lower Con than the fighter means he doesn't have much staying power. Fighting a wizard is one thing, but I wouldn't try pulling the same trick against a hill giant.

 

[Phorck]

I'm playing a rogue at the moment and have found that sneak attack doensn't really come up much at the moment. First the target has to be vulnerable to sneak attack, then I have to get the guy either flanked or flatfooted, and then I actually have to hit him. I also have to deal with my hitpoints. I even have less hitpoints than the wizard in my party due to him getting an 18 in con and some luck in his rolls.

 

[Crothian]

My character has sneak attack and ussually i get in a good hit or two before the enemy unloads on me. Then I go limbing off to the Cleric.

Rogue's can deal out damage in the right situation, but low HPs and low AC really hurts.

 

[EOL]

As I recall this question has been debated to death, and I too when I first looked at it thought wow that sounds like it might be broken, but after DMing 3E for the last year and a half I can tell you that it's not. It rarely comes up and when it does you generally think ahh well the rogues isn't completely useless in combat after all....

 

[Angelsboi]

i guess its just our group and the fac the rogue n questin is a fairy ....

 

[CRGreathouse]

i guess its just our group and the fac the rogue n questin is a fairy ....

With what ECL? I think that's the real problem...

 

[Caliber]

We have a Fairy Rogue in out party too. That 1d4 round Imp. Invis. (for essentially unlimited times per day) sure is sweet when it comes to the SA ...

 

[hong]

We have a Fairy Rogue in out party too. That 1d4 round Imp. Invis. (for essentially unlimited times per day) sure is sweet when it comes to the SA ...

A fireball at ground zero should solve that problem.