Sneak Attack Damage v. Immune to Critical Hits

[Preston Poulter]

Am I correct in thinking that a Rogue can now sneak attack creatures that are immune to critical hits?

[Phil. L]

Preston Poulter wrote:

Am I correct in thinking that a Rogue can now sneak attack creatures that are immune to critical hits?

There are still some creatures that are immune to sneak attacks but most are now able to be sneak attacked. The exact type of creatures that can be sneak attacked will be covered in the Pathfinder Bestiary.

I think it goes something like this:

Corporeal undead (can be sneak attacked)
Incorporeal undead (cannot be sneak attacked)
Constructs (can be sneak attacked)
Elementals (cannot be sneak attacked)
Oozes (cannot be sneak attacked)
Plants (can be sneak attacked - not a 100% sure on that one).

I'm sure that there will be some exceptions to this listed in the book.

Already this has become an arguing point among people. I personally think that expanding the list is a good thing.

[Warforged Gardener]

Phil. L wrote:

Preston Poulter wrote:

Am I correct in thinking that a Rogue can now sneak attack creatures that are immune to critical hits?

There are still some creatures that are immune to sneak attacks but most are now able to be sneak attacked. The exact type of creatures that can be sneak attacked will be covered in the Pathfinder Bestiary.

I think it goes something like this:

Corporeal undead (can be sneak attacked)
Incorporeal undead (cannot be sneak attacked)
Constructs (can be sneak attacked)
Elementals (cannot be sneak attacked)
Oozes (cannot be sneak attacked)
Plants (can be sneak attacked - not a 100% sure on that one).

I'm sure that there will be some exceptions to this listed in the book.

Already this has become an arguing point among people. I personally think that expanding the list is a good thing.

Most of the creatures that have become vulnerable to sneak attack are now vulnerable to critical hits as well, if my reading of the conversion notes and Bestiary preview was correct.

[meabolex]

Preston Poulter wrote:

Am I correct in thinking that a Rogue can now sneak attack creatures that are immune to critical hits?

There is nothing in the current rules which suggests that immunity to critical hits provides immunity to sneak attack.

[Jonne Karila]

All undead are immune to critical hits but not all are immune to sneak attack.

[Gorbacz]

Actually, not.

The only things with blanket immunity to both precision damage (incl. sneak attack) and criticals are:

Elementals
Oozes (oozi ?)
Incorporeal Undead

All other monster types and subtypes are fair game for sneak attack AND crits, UNLESS it is explicitly stated in their statblock that they are immune.