| Board | Mechanics.old [context] |
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| Sender | Wesson |
| Date | Sun Apr 8 20:57:11 2018 |
| To | bobble,all |
| Subject | Backstabbery and brightness/invis |
| Looking ahead to subclass/racial builds and I have a question regarding backstab checks: does invisibility override any concerns regarding brightness provided the target doesn't have detects up? More specifically, would a shadowdancer quickling have greater success with backstab as a midround attack than a shadowdancer with a race that has dark_vision, dark eq, and doesn't utilize a light source? I'm not entirely sure how the brightness check plays into the calculation for success, and I also don't know how the invis affect on quicklings works in combat. Presumably, their racial invis affect isn't like the improved invis spell and remain up throughout combat. Does invis reapply before every round and then drop as soon as an attack registers? If it remains down during combat, does that mean it does nothing to increase odds of landing backstab as a midround attack? Sincerely, Befuddled in Bastion |
