I once played with a DM that strictly ruled that rogues didn’t get a sneak attack bonus unless I was in stealth and undetected by the enemy. (As he said its in the name: SNEAK attack)
I brought up I could probably make that still work with a bow and I was immediately preemptively banned from using ranged weapons lol.
That was a frustrating game.
Did the DM just not like Rogues or were they new to DnD?
To me it sounds just like AD&D 2e rules, in which the ability was called “Backstabbing.”
I’ve been hearing about DM’s complaining about Rogues SA since 3.x days. These are the same guys who (allegedly) thought the monk was more powerful that the sorcerer because the monk’s chart had so many more columns and class features.
Why did you even play with this guy?
I had a dm once say he was thinking about saying no about my rogue’s “I shoot, move, bonus action hide around the corner” loop. But then he said he realized if he said no, my character would suck and it’d be no fun.
I think that was the right call.
Very much this. It even feels very “rogueish” to employ that strategy and it’s far from broken, so I don’t see why you would ban it.
