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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6864968" data-attributes="member: 2067">This generally remains true, but there's a bit of a positional caveat: a prerequisite to hiding is that you're not seen by whatever it is you're trying to hide from. If you hide before you move, and you move through a spot where someone can see you, they'll know where you are when you end your turn. If you hide AFTER you move to a spot where no one can see you, and successfully hide, it doesn't matter as much if they saw you when you moved - they'll need to do something to find you (though they might have a good idea where they need to go to do that). This becomes a pretty irrelevant distinction if you remain unseen for your entire movement, but it can be useful when, say, moving across a hallway or betweeen points of cover or something.The big DM Judgement Call there is if you remain unseen when you move out from behind the barrel. My reading of the (admittedly fabulously vague) stealth rules indicates that generally, yes, the moment you move out from behind that barrel, everyone can see you. Things that would mitigate this might include total obscurement, darkness, invisibility, etc, but in general, someone saw you go behind a barrel, and then they didn't know where you were anymore, but it's not like they forgot you moved behind the barrel, and it's not like they wouldn't see you if you moved from that position out into broad daylight. I'd probably let someone else make a distraction with a Deception or Sleight of Hand check to have the whole "I move when they're not looking" situation, but I'd want that to be something declared and done in-character, not a presumed part of "being stealthy."</blockquote>

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