Unchained Rogue + Bewildered + Surprise Round

[Alex Blagovestnov]

Hi to all, and let's try to find out.

The Сase:
Unchained Rogue with Sap crawls along the corridor and sneaks behind the guard's back, who does not see the rogue.
Rogue is aware of combat, guard isn't. So that means Surprise Round

- Surprise Round - Rogue hits Guard with sap, adding sneak attack damage and Bewildered condition(-4 AC against rogue), to soften his defence.
- Initiative Roll - Let's assume that rogue had win initiative.
- Regular Round - Rogue hits Guard with sap once again. BUT! at this step strange things are happening.

The Problem:
Combat Rules - "Effects that last a certain number of rounds end just before the same initiative count that they began on."

By the rules it looks like our clever sneaky Rogue with tacktical advantage and high initative cant get profit from her own debuff. And that is very strange.

So i need clarification and FAQ - Can unchained rogue make sneak attack in surprise round with Bewildered debuff and then, in regular round, make attack against bewildered foe?

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

Technically everyone rolls init before the surprise round and keeps that result in the regular round. (See the very beginning of the Combat rules.) The Bewildered effect starts at the rogue's init count in the surprise round and runs til just before then in the regular round, and therefore has run out when the rogue goes again no matter what her init was.