The Beginner's Guide to Sneak Attack In Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access

what is up everyone renfail here and we are back with more Baldur's Gate 3 and in today's ultimate beginner's guide we're diving into sneak attack and how sneak Works in this game because it's a little different than actual 5th edition sneak attack which can be confusing but you can also be coming at this from the angle of I've never played a Baldur's Gate game before and I don't know what any of these rules signify it will help that's what this is for so we're gonna dive in but before we do don't forget to like subscribe and hit that Bell icon so you never miss an update let's get to the guide now from a technical standpoint if you read from the 5th edition compendium the player's handbook beginning at first level you know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe's distraction once per turn you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on that attack roll the attacker must be using a finesse or ranged weapon so you do have both and if we look down here you'll notice we have sneak attack melee stick attack ranged for my rogue here those two things are important you don't need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of the target is within five feet of it provided that the enemy isn't incapacitated and you don't have any sort of disadvantage imposed on your attack roll and then of course the amount of damage increases as you gain levels which is sort of how backstab used to work say in like first and second edition I always loved just a good old backstab and I remember in in one of the the way we've always played it in our tabletop campaigns is if you're flanking the mob in any way shape or form you're just at least our modification of 50 was you know you'll get flanking as long as you're flanking you just every time you attack you get an extra bonus roll on that for sneak attack damage but the way they're doing it in larion is as we just described and we want to show that in action here so sneak attack um takes a weapon action just like a normal attack um but because it's doing extra damage you know that's the benefit of it but since it has conditions how do we fulfill those conditions so um if we go up here a little bit let's go ahead and get into sneak so that we're staying nice performing sneaking now nobody can see me right now oh oh oh I almost got seen and I almost jumped into the red there technically no one can see me right now right so I could pickpocket this dude do anything I want but if I go into sneak attack um I can actually do a sneak attack and I have a 94 percent chance of Landing said sneak attack and that's because I am at an advantage at this point um he doesn't know I'm here if I attack him I will automatically trigger surprise so I've got the advantage on him so if I were to click this um there is a chance depending on how high I roll I think my best role has been in the 20s at this point um but um there's a chance I could one shot him but more than likely we're just gonna do a ton of damage and then we should get him surprised and have the opportunity to do another attack before I have to worry about anything now that's assuming it hits so let's just see if it hits first and foremost okay it did hit he is surprised so let me go back in here now this time it says must have advantage against Target so I'm in an open active melee situation um so it doesn't count that as Advantage the only other way I would be able to get um a sneak attack off on here on him now at this point is if someone else from my group is within that five feet that was mentioned earlier and I thus have quote unquote flanking or the ability to assist in this in essence my companions in their combat encounters let's just go ahead and see if we can't go nope we did not finish this guy off so that's gonna be a shove because I actually don't want to get bogged down in look combat with those guys if I can avoid it because I don't have Advantage anymore so in order for my sneak attack to work someone else has to be actively engaged within five feet of the end of the Bob in question so that's what we're gonna do here they've all got a dash to catch up that's really really good news for me okay so I'm going to go up around here and I'm gonna go all right like so and we're gonna unpause this is one of the reasons I love the Rogue so much everybody it's such a fun class to play come and get me well hello there I love it I love it so this is awesome he fell for it he literally bypassed me because I'm hidden and he went straight to the sale which is exactly what should happen if you pull this off because wherever you've got your party camped you know you've got Lazelle in the front so the idea is to pull them back and drop them off at your tank so that works brilliantly so we're gonna go up here I mean it's a 55 chance let's just whop them one damn Shadow heart I might get hit with a grease or something here but uh we'll see oh I think we get one more which means Gail buddy old pal you're gonna grease this doorway all right Zale well I might not might not get a sneak attack off just a little bit let's get her all the way up here all that matters well [Music] I'm gonna stay where I'm at for now we want him to come to us come on over I'm gonna move her up around the corner as well he's doing a small heel on the fail what's up everybody quick commercial break here to give it a shout out to our Guild Champions who are the highest tier memberships here on YouTube Ancient entity assassin gamer 94 Babylonia Rising crazies relative mujin and remedy thanks so much for the highest tier membership and thanks to all of the members who support the channel because you keep me doing this full-time you too can become a supporter if you're new here don't forget to like subscribe and hit that Bell icon so you never miss an update join as a member there's three different tiers we do lots of special stuff private polls private videos you get a shout out if you're the highest 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companion from my party within five feet so let's just go ahead and drop a sneak attack yeah and the cool thing is if you guys didn't know this you can go over here and you can expand this window on the bottom right and you can go in and wherever it says somebody was hit with something you could hover over it and it'll show you what the roles were so attack roll this proficiency this deck stat um so you can look at how that rolled out and if you got crits and so on and so forth we gotta finish the encounter now guys so hahaha we'll go ahead and wrap this up I'll get advantage on this guy too now so I missed [Music] nobody needs a heel I can't believe she got a shove off she's actually quite strong in that case uh let's just whack this guy I'm gonna go ahead and use them action surge swap them again I wonder if this is worth oh now I should be able to get a sneak attack on this dude we got him a lethal blow you see that guys look at this lethal blow so awesome so he's toast now ah let's drop a guide on her still some punishment [Music] actually hold up let's do a ray of sickness checkmate he missed scale bloodial pal what are you doing bro and there you have it that's a wrap on sneak attack in action well there you have it everyone we have a quick and easy guide to sneak attack in combat in Boulder's Gate 3. if you found this guide useful don't forget to like subscribe and hit that Bell icon so you never miss an update as I continue to produce guides and we do daily live streams at 11AM every single day playing Baldur's Gate 3 and sometimes some other stuff right now as well we're getting into star field we're doing also film reviews and the podcast and stuff so hopefully I'll see you in one of those don't forget the Discord links are down below until next time everybody stay safe and happy gaming and faeroon

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Length: 11min 56sec (716 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 27 2023