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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9761043" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack roll if you have Advantage on the roll and the attack uses a Finesse or a Ranged weapon. That's once per turn, not once per round.  If you can find a way to get the attack off turn, it works. That can be either with an opportunity attack, a reaction attack (from say a Battlemaster dip or a Battlemaster giving them a reaction attack), or Actions Surge/Haste+Ready.  I'm sure there's other tech involved to allow this, I've never actually felt the need to.  I know that in the playtest they wanted to change the language to 1/round, but got backlash over it.  I saw one guy arguing "off-turn Sneak Attack is healthy design because it allows other classes to support the Rogue in getting their off turn attacks.  YMMV.Personally, I didn't see the point.  The Rogue is almost guaranteed to get Sneak Attack, to the point that I wonder why they bothered with restricting it, they could have just said "the first attack you make each round gets this bonus damage as long as you use the right weapon".  I know, legacy probably, or just to give an explanation for why they get the damage.So it feels like being able to occasionally double the damage is a bit unnecessary (to me).  Rogue isn't the best damage dealing class (nor do I think it should be), it's just fairly consistent about the damage it deals.  But since they made sure you could do this, it seems to me that anything else exploitative in the rules can't be dismissed out of hand when trying to discern RAI.</blockquote>

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