Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General How do I not have advantage?

I'm behind the enemy, hiden AND on higher ground. How is that not advantage for sneak attack?

You may have disadvantage from some source which would effectively cancel out your advantage from being hidden. By the way, being hidden is the only one of those three things that would give you advantage.

My guess is that maybe your target was outside of your normal range. That would give you disadvantage. Your sneak attack does not work if you have any disadvantage... even if you also have advantage from another source. Of course, I'm just guessing because I don't have the scenario fully in front of me.

I guess it musta been the distance then. I have always had a problem sneak attacking the hook horror at the bottom of the cliff in the Underdark. Right down from the Blibberbang area. Obvisously I'm on higher ground there and I was behind it. It seems to be just that one only because I sneak attacked all the other ones just fine. Guess I was out of range and didn't realise it.

Just as a point, in case anyone wants to bug report it,

You are only meant to be denied your sneak attack if you make the attack roll with disadvantage; that means that if you have 7 sources of disadvantage, and one source of advantage, and are thus making your attack roll as a flat roll, with neither disadvantage or advantage, then it is not supposed to interfere with your sneak attack - if you have an ally within 5 feet of the enemy, you would get your sneak attack just fine.

Larian have not implemented it this way - they have it set to knock out your sneak attack if you have any source of disadvantage at all, regardless of whether you're attacking at disadvantage or not, and it actually contradicts the toolitp which has the formal (correct) wording on it, last I checked.