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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 723626" data-attributes="member: 381">Pardon me if I seem to be changing sides, LuYangShih, but I don't think this is a 'the rules say' situation at all. The precise determination of whether a given creature's vitals are within reach of a given rogue in a given situation is always a judgment call for the DM. Sometimes it's going to be obvious-a human can always sneak attack an orc standing next to her on a level floor, a halfling can't sneak attack a titan in the same situation-but at other times, a decision will have to be made. The rules can't possibly list every conceivable situation, so at times, the DM will just have to look at the circumstances and make a ruling. The purple worm situation is one of those times, IMO. The 'Gamestoppers' column gives some weight to the 'no' answer, but that's just the ruling of some particular members of the WOTC staff, not an official game rule. (And it's not like the 'Gamestoppers' writers never screwed anything up, either ...)I agree with them, and with you, about what's an appropriate ruling in this case, but that doesn't make Gaiden's ruling a 'house rule'.(And Gaiden-I did read all of your post. I just don't agree with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )</blockquote>