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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 5282208" data-attributes="member: 92305">I'm fairly new to 3.5E.  I was wondering how you DMs more experienced with the edition handle skill checks when more than one person could roll a check. For example, let's say a lone PC thief is creeping down a hallway with open windows that look out on the battlements.  Five guards are clustered around, talking to each other, trying to stay awake and keep the cold from finding a home in their bones. There are curtains over the windows to keep the cold out, but they billow in the wind this high up. The thief needs to move past these guards.  The guards can't see the thief, because of the curtains, but they surely can hear him if he makes a lot of noise. So, the thief rolls his Move Silently skill opposed by...what? Does the one theif check go against five different rolls? Or, do the guards only get one roll?  Maybe using the Aid Another rule?   OK, let me make this a bit more complicated.  Let's say three PCs are sneaking down the corridor, trying to sneak past the five guards.  How do you handle that? How do you DMs handle both of these situations?</blockquote>