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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6865006" data-attributes="member: 2067">For me, simply moving through a space where the enemy can see you is cause for losing stealth, and the "default state" of most enemies is "Very aware of their surroundings," so you'd have to make some special effort to distract the enemy to get them to look away from a spot they can see. If a stabby little halfling ran behind a barrel, and I was a guard who was semi-competent at my job, I'd watch that barrel like a hawk, even if I didn't see the little bugger anymore, even if I was fighting all that little halfling's buddies. If you wanted to get nitty-gritty on this, you could implement facing rules...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For me, a default state for any character of "If it moves through a space I can see, I can also see it" keeps the whole party engaged in one character's stealth in a tight area (action to Hide means that if the hider wants to get enemies to look away, they need someone ELSE to make a distraction). Stealth is most useful in an ambush (the OP's scenario of "the enemies are in a room on the other side of these closed doors" would be perfect for a Stealth roll since vision is blocked), but becomes difficult in a fight unless you can make cover/provide invisibility/etc.</blockquote>

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