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<blockquote data-quote="Harzel" data-source="post: 7570094" data-attributes="member: 6857506">As has already been mentioned, 5e explicitly describes sneak attack in terms other than hitting vulnerable points, but for the sake of discussion, let's set that aside for a moment.&nbsp; Assuming that sneak attack did involve hitting vulnerable points, with all due respect to your existing conceptions of various creatures, how do you know that elementals, oozes, and wraiths (among others) lack vulnerable points?&nbsp; Have you had the opportunity to examine one?&nbsp; Very few creature descriptions make explicit reference to vulnerable points.&nbsp; (In fact, ankhegs are the only exception that come to mind.)&nbsp; We make assumptions about humanoids, beasts, and other sorta kinda animal-ish things by analogy to RL, but really we have the same amount of certain knowledge of wraith anatomy as we do about bugbear anatomy - close to none.&nbsp; So, rather than seeing sneak attack as a mechanic that doesn't fit the (your) fiction, perhaps the fact that sneak attack works on all creatures is evidence that all 5e creatures have vulnerable points, and your assumptions about, e.g., elementals, oozes, and wraiths are just incorrect.(This is pretty much [MENTION=6919838]5ekyu[/MENTION]'s point; I'm just reformulating it a bit.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harzel, post: 7570094, member: 6857506"] As has already been mentioned, 5e explicitly describes sneak attack in terms other than hitting vulnerable points, but for the sake of discussion, let's set that aside for a moment. Assuming that sneak attack did involve hitting vulnerable points, with all due respect to your existing conceptions of various creatures, how do you know that elementals, oozes, and wraiths (among others) lack vulnerable points? Have you had the opportunity to examine one? Very few creature descriptions make explicit reference to vulnerable points. (In fact, ankhegs are the only exception that come to mind.) We make assumptions about humanoids, beasts, and other sorta kinda animal-ish things by analogy to RL, but really we have the same amount of certain knowledge of wraith anatomy as we do about bugbear anatomy - close to none. So, rather than seeing sneak attack as a mechanic that doesn't fit the (your) fiction, perhaps the fact that sneak attack works on all creatures is evidence that all 5e creatures have vulnerable points, and your assumptions about, e.g., elementals, oozes, and wraiths are just incorrect. (This is pretty much [MENTION=6919838]5ekyu[/MENTION]'s point; I'm just reformulating it a bit.) [/QUOTE]

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