1/21/2024 0 Comments 5e flat footedIt's not great, because it takes two PCs to pull it off, and unless the target is also pinned he has a 50% chance to strike his ally. Grappled: A character loses dex to AC from targets who are not grappling him.Climbing or balancing: Ambush your opponent at a tricky terrain feature like a narrow ledge, rock face or climbing rope, knowing he will have to move slowly back to solid ground or fall to evade it.Worth investing in Spot and Listen for this reason. Flat-footed: You got a surprise round, or it's the first round of combat and they haven't taken their turn.Cowering: from fear this isn't common except with turned undead, which you can't sneak attack anyway.Play a dwarf or half-orc rogue or ninja and sneak attack in complete darkness using your darkvision. Note that you cannot sneak attack in darkness, unless the target is still visible to you: perhaps he's lit with a low-range light source like a candle, and you're ranged attacking from 30 feet away. Cannot see the attacker: You're effectively invisible to it due to stealth (Hide/Move Silently), concealment (perhaps obscured by terrain features), magical invisibility, or darkness.This can happen during a sandstorm or blizzard, or if you rigged a bucket above a door to drop on his head using the Disable Device skill, or the target thinks they see a creature with a gaze attack and shuts his eyes, or the party wizard casts a blindness spell (or you Use Magic Device'd a scroll of the spell, and most monsters don't have a cure for blindness handy). Blinded: The target willingly shuts his eyes, or his eyes are covered, or he cannot see.A target loses his Dex to AC under several circumstances: I wrote an article on this in 2006, titled Playing the Rogue.
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