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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Souljourner" data-source="post: 134346" data-attributes="member: 1622">Did I say that?  No.  I said "assuming the DM is NOT stupid". It's common sense.  If you somehow distract everyone present and duck into the bushes, shoot someone in the head, and then try to distract everyone again, they're going to catch on.   There aren't rules for every single situation, that's why we HAVE a DM.  If your DM wants to let you make a Bluff check every third round of combat, that's his right, but I think most people would agree that it gets to be a little ridiculous.  There's nothing that says you can't use improved critical keen vorpal bladed gauntlets either, but I doubt you'll see many of those in any reasonable campaign.There are plenty of rules that are open to abuse, but as long as your DM doesn't simply act like an automaton, it's not a big problem.  DMs make decisions and judgements all the time.  Just because the rules don't say you can't do something, doesn't mean you can.  It's up to your DM to decide what's reasonable.  Maybe your DM thinks it's reasonable to be able to distract the same people time and time again.   I personally don't think it is.Of course, even assuming you can do this, it means you get one sneak attack every 3 rounds.  I don't think that's unbalancing at all.  And the difference between 30 feet and 60 feet is negligible in this situation since you've already admitted that the enemies aren't going to go after him anyway.  So where's the problem?  The only thing that makes 60 feet good is in the situation where the sniper is going to have someone come after him.-The Souljourner</blockquote>

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