While there are many subclasses and personality flairs for rogues, they all often share the same basic traits.

Ranging from charismatic charmers to stone-cold entities, they are all still trained with the same set of skills.

Being able to deal additional damage under specific conditions makes the rogue class so devastating regarding accuracy and damage.

Dungeons & Dragons Rogue

What Is The Sneak Attack Ability?

Sneak attack allows a rogueto deal additional damage when certain criteria are met during an attack.

The damagestarts at 1d6, scaling all the way to10d6when they reach twentieth level.

A rogues backstory can give them a helpful cover identity, from a student of the arcane to a performing clown

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What Makes Sneak Attack So Special?

Damage is everything for the rogue class.

This ability essentiallyincentivizes rogues to calculate and sneak upon their target.

Assassin rogue about to kill an unsuspecting NPC

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There are endless ways that sneak attack can be utilized.

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