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If you can't wait for an official response, ask around for other gamers' opinions, I guess, and report those to your GM, and let your GM make the call.

Sorry for the late. Unfortunately, I'm the GM, so I think I need to see if it "sounds good" to me. Anyway, thank you for your time :)

Hi mr. James, sorry for the intrusion. I'm pretty new to pathfinder, and I tried to search around, but... well, that's confusing, and all the clues points toward you. I know it's a stupid question, but I don't know any other to ask. So, straight to the point: can the swarms be sneak attacked? I discussed the topic with a friend of mine, he's helping me to set up a little dungeon. Well, when it comes to a swarm, he said "Watch out, the rogue can't sneak attack the swarm, so better you give him some alchemist fire". In that moment I was with the swarm traits page open, and I said "Why he can't sneak attack? It says it's immune to flanking, ant to critical, but it says nothing about the sneak attack". So he read the page with me, and said that he remembered that the swarms cannot be sneak attacked. So, we did a search on the net, and all the searches points toward a post of you back in 2010 when you say that the swarms are immune to sneak attack (http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ktke?Sneak-Attack-Info#4). So, as you're, as my friend said, one of the developers of Pathfinder, I need to ask: are the swarms immune only to flanking, and thus an hiding attacker could apply the sneak attack, or as you said in that post, are the swarms immune to sneak attacks? And if the latter, why nobody ever had printed an errata, or a FAQ to correct this error? I'm really confused about that.

I cannot edit, don't know why. Re-reading this post I realize that it seems I'm ranting or accusing you or the designer of the paizo. I really don't want to do nothing of that. I'm just really confused about my question, and I love your work, but... well, I just wonder of why, in the case, there's no errata or faq about such an argument. I see that you always answer kindly, even when you're busy with your work. I really appreciate it, and it's the reason why I take the freedom to ask to you. I hope you don't think that I want to accuse you or anyone of the paizo staff, because I really love the feeling of a sort of "direct contact" with you, and I love your work and how you did. I'm really sorry if I seemed rude in my post, it really wasn't my intention.

Hi mr. James, sorry for the intrusion. I'm pretty new to pathfinder, and I tried to search around, but... well, that's confusing, and all the clues points toward you. I know it's a stupid question, but I don't know any other to ask. So, straight to the point: can the swarms be sneak attacked? I discussed the topic with a friend of mine, he's helping me to set up a little dungeon. Well, when it comes to a swarm, he said "Watch out, the rogue can't sneak attack the swarm, so better you give him some alchemist fire". In that moment I was with the swarm traits page open, and I said "Why he can't sneak attack? It says it's immune to flanking, ant to critical, but it says nothing about the sneak attack". So he read the page with me, and said that he remembered that the swarms cannot be sneak attacked. So, we did a search on the net, and all the searches points toward a post of you back in 2010 when you say that the swarms are immune to sneak attack (http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ktke?Sneak-Attack-Info#4). So, as you're, as my friend said, one of the developers of Pathfinder, I need to ask: are the swarms immune only to flanking, and thus an hiding attacker could apply the sneak attack, or as you said in that post, are the swarms immune to sneak attacks? And if the latter, why nobody ever had printed an errata, or a FAQ to correct this error? I'm really confused about that.