Does the displacement spell prevent sneak attacks?
(James Jacobs 3/3/10) At this point, barring rewrites to spells and class abilities: Sneak Attack works on displaced targets because the text of the spell SPECIFICALLY SAYS that you can target a creature normally. It’s just that sometimes, the target’s not where you think it is… but that doesn’t impact your ability to target the foe. The spell says the miss chance works LIKE concealment, but then goes on to say that this doesn’t impact your ability to actually target the foe normally. Flavorwise… with blur, which actually grants concealment, you can’t see the target clearly enough to aim at hearts or aortas or kidneys or other sneak attack targets. Therefore, sneak attack doesn’t work. With displacement, you CAN see the target clearly. The problem is that when you stab, the target simply might not be there. If he’s not there, then you miss and do NO damage. If he IS there, you hit where you were aiming at anyway and thus do sneak attack damage.
