Stacking Sneak Attack

[Daka_Daka_Jax]

If you have Sneak Attack and say Precision damage from another source can they be stacked in a single attack.

For example, If you are flanking an enemy and you have an attack that adds precision damage that deals 1d6 but you also have sneak attack that deals 1d6 can you stack these together to deal 2d6 in one strike or can you only choose one or the other. I know you can only apply sneak attack or precision once per turn but do they stack together if you have both from different sources?

[Claxon]

Since this is about 3rd party products...I would say it depends.

What I'm likely to do as a GM, if it functions very similarly to Sneak Attack but doesn't call itself that, I'm very likely to treat your total class (that qualify for granting the Sneak Attack like ability) as Rogue levels to determine what your progression should be.

Edit: Just realized this is for PF2 homebrew not PF1.

In general, IMO, you shouldn't be getting a bunch of extra damage dice by multiclassing into different things.

Look at the rogue dedication. You get a very watered down sneak attack.

[shroudb]

Daka_Daka_Jax wrote:

If you have Sneak Attack and say Precision damage from another source can they be stacked in a single attack.

For example, If you are flanking an enemy and you have an attack that adds precision damage that deals 1d6 but you also have sneak attack that deals 1d6 can you stack these together to deal 2d6 in one strike or can you only choose one or the other. I know you can only apply sneak attack or precision once per turn but do they stack together if you have both from different sources?

That's not true.

It depends on the ability if it's once per turn or not.

As an example, the precision damage from Precision Edge Ranger is 1/turn, but the Sneak attack can be as many times as you attack per turn.

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As for stacking DIFFERENT forms of precision damage, there's no problem with it.

As an example, a Precision Ranger with Rogue multiclass will get to add his 1d6 Sneak die on his 1st hit of the round on top of his regular Ranger precision damage (and his rogue sneak attack die on all other attacks made that turn that qualify for it).

[Claxon]

One slight correction, the precision ranger in question would need to be 6th level to deal 1d6 additional sneak attack damage, otherwise it's only 1d4.

And the only reason I'm not in the same exact camp as what you're saying is, we're talking about 3rd party and homebrew stuff.

Depending on what/how it was written it could be very imbalanced or not thoughtful of other existing sources of sneak attack/precision damage.

I agree with the statement that a Precision Ranger with Rogue Dedication has no problem with those sources of additional precision damage combining because they have appropriate limits.

Interestingly, Ranger dedication doesn't let you get the Hunter's Edge, so a Rogue with Ranger dedication doesn't have the same thing available.

Anyways, as a GM I would reserve the right to say no based on what this theoretical dedication actually does.

[Maya Coleman]

I've moved this to the PF2 Homebrew section as per Claxon's assessment here!