#back stab

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Forgotten Knight by  Alexandra Malygina (Fler)

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Sound tactics and a grasp of the rules carry the day. (Jennell Jaquays, Dungeoneer 10, Judges Guild, March/April 1979) AD&D was still a jumble of rules in different books, and many of the combat rules were only in the DMG, not in the Players Handbook, but facing mattered and by the rules available in 1979 the thief might attack the owlbear with surprise gaining +4 to hit and multipliers to his damage rolls:

From the 1978 AD&D Players Handbook (p 27) in the explanation of the thief class abilities,

For over a year a reasonable reading of this was that only the +4 to hit depended on surprise, while the back stab damage multiplier would apply to every successful attack from the rear throughout a combat. The 1979 DMG (p19) clarified that the thief's entire back stab ability depended on an unaware target (with a "back" in some anatomical sense):

In practice a successful back stab might be a rare thing to accomplish at some tables. The DMG did give something back in return -- Even without surprise everyone gets a +2 bonus to hit from the rear throughout a combat (DMG p70):

Plus you could ignore the AC value of shields and dex bonuses (dex wouldn't be listed in most monster descriptions, but this could help when fighting an NPC with complete character stats). In a well-designed encounter these rules encouraged maneuvering through dense terrain, in stalagmite-filled caverns, or around mazes of branching and intersecting corridors trying to get those bonuses.

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lots of getting stabbed in the back. Still kinda fun though!

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Nóż w plecy

aka Cios w plecy

aka Back Stab

Director: Jim Kaufman

1990

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