Sneak Attack Melee v Ranged

[HozzMidnight]

My sneak attack fires automatically in melee, as in I can make a regular melee attack using the default melee attack icon and sneak attack will fire if I have not used it yet in the turn. This does not happen when doing a ranged attack using the default ranged attack icon.

Why is this? Bug or design oversight? In EA it did not fire automatically ever which was a massive pain in the ass.

[lefty1117]

There is a screen where you can set all of that sort of stuff ...try pressing Tab to bring up your party inventory and then look across the top. There are pages for inventory, spellbook and a third one which is where reactions can be set (auto vs prompt etc)

[sevensided]

If you have it setup properly in reactions section of your spell book, and sneak attack isn't popping up when using your normal range attack, then the conditions to trigger sneak attack aren't being met. It is more difficult (note: not difficult, just more difficult) than melee to trigger sneak attack at range as there are more conditions to deal with. Range, lighting, advantage, are you in melee, height, prone or not, etc etc. Melee just literally needs an ally also in melee.

[HozzMidnight]

Yeah I have messed with the reactions tab and thought they were set the same. I guess it could be the lack of conditions being met but it seems like it never worked so I just started doing it manually and very rarely have been met with 'you must have advantage' or whatever it says when you try to sneak attack manually without meeting the conditions.