D&D 5E Can a wood elf hide in dim light?

[pemerton]

When Wood Elves are outside in nature, the entirety of the natural world is there for them to mask themselves in and which is their bread and butter. So if there's a bush, the elf can hide behind it because they know what parts are the best to sit behind, their clothing matches, they contort their body in such a way that it melds into the forms of the bush, and so on. By the same token, if they're outside in Dim Light they know how to for instance lie flat on the ground and look like they are part of the natural terrain... or put their bodies into a position to make it look like they are a small tree, a rock, or some other natural object. So the Hidden status is acquired partially from a Game Rule, and partially from the "story" of wood elves in the natural the world.

Whereas underground, it's implied they just do not know underground terrain nearly intuitively enough to hide in the "open" of just Dim Light by position, form, or replication alone.

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this half-Game Rule / half-Story justification to Mask of the Wild

I'm not sure about your story component. I don't think Wood Elves can hide behind bushes because they're expert contortionists with wilderness training.

It's because they are magical creatures of fairyland.

 

[DEFCON 1]

I'm not sure about your story component. I don't think Wood Elves can hide behind bushes because they're expert contortionists with wilderness training.

It's because they are magical creatures of fairyland.

Well, whatever the story is you are putting on them. My point isn't the specific story I just pulled out of my butt... it's the fact that it *is* "story-based" about what elves are is in the fiction of the D&D worlds... rather than a strict Game Rule / Game Mechanic explanation.