OnlineDM
Adventurer
For what it's worth, when a character gets out of sight (around a corner, goes invisible, whatever) and then makes a stealth check to hide, I've ruled that the character is hidden from every other character whose passive perception is less than the stealth result - including allies. I guess this is an inadvertent house rule on my part, but I like it.
Using stealth to hide already requires that you're out of sight, so the stealth part is about making noise, in my mind (again, house-ruled here). If you make so little noise that your stealth is higher than your ally's passive perception, your ally doesn't know where you are either.
Now, if the hidden character has some way of noiselessly letting his allies know where he is (telepathy, for instance), then no problem - his allies know his location. Otherwise, in my house rule, giving away his position to his allies will also give it away to his enemies.
Of course, if the PC is hiding on the same side of a wall that other members of his party are on, then naturally he's not hidden from them (if they can see him, he's not hidden from them). I'm talking about a situation where the PC is invisible or out of sight of everybody.
And in most cases it doesn't really matter anyway, unless you're trying to avoid hitting an ally with a burst or blast and you want to know if they're in the area or not. It's more of a flavor thing in my game.
Using stealth to hide already requires that you're out of sight, so the stealth part is about making noise, in my mind (again, house-ruled here). If you make so little noise that your stealth is higher than your ally's passive perception, your ally doesn't know where you are either.
Now, if the hidden character has some way of noiselessly letting his allies know where he is (telepathy, for instance), then no problem - his allies know his location. Otherwise, in my house rule, giving away his position to his allies will also give it away to his enemies.
Of course, if the PC is hiding on the same side of a wall that other members of his party are on, then naturally he's not hidden from them (if they can see him, he's not hidden from them). I'm talking about a situation where the PC is invisible or out of sight of everybody.
And in most cases it doesn't really matter anyway, unless you're trying to avoid hitting an ally with a burst or blast and you want to know if they're in the area or not. It's more of a flavor thing in my game.
