Jimlock
Adventurer
I was wondering why the "Stealth Expert" Feat, a.k.a. "ex-Skulker", copies the same incomprehensible text from 5e:
You can try to hide even while you are only lightly obscured from the creature you are trying to hide from.
When at the same time, anybody can attempt to hide when obscured (p411):
To attempt to hide from a creature, you must be unseen (behind something, obscured, invisible, or otherwise out of sight) and unheard by that creature, as well as undetected by any other special senses that it might possess.
and when there is no established difference between lightly obscured & obscured.
When WotC injected "clearly" into an already poorly written stealth-paragraph, it conflicted so much with Skulker (and Mask of the Wild) that it brought to life an innumerable amount of threads where bedazzled gamers were trying to figure out what was happening with stealth and how can the average joe (without Skulker) try to hide...
I would expect from a game that tries to look 5e in the eyes to have stumbled on one of the biggest elephants in the room...
You can try to hide even while you are only lightly obscured from the creature you are trying to hide from.
When at the same time, anybody can attempt to hide when obscured (p411):
To attempt to hide from a creature, you must be unseen (behind something, obscured, invisible, or otherwise out of sight) and unheard by that creature, as well as undetected by any other special senses that it might possess.
and when there is no established difference between lightly obscured & obscured.
When WotC injected "clearly" into an already poorly written stealth-paragraph, it conflicted so much with Skulker (and Mask of the Wild) that it brought to life an innumerable amount of threads where bedazzled gamers were trying to figure out what was happening with stealth and how can the average joe (without Skulker) try to hide...
I would expect from a game that tries to look 5e in the eyes to have stumbled on one of the biggest elephants in the room...
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