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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawned79" data-source="post: 1970812" data-attributes="member: 9284">I think I will try looking in the Complete Adventurer for that additional hide technique. That may solve my problem with little fuss from my group. Our main DM does now have the CA.If, as stated, that the CA says you can move from a hiding spot to a hiding spot over non-hiding areas with the appropriate checks, then that may be fine. Think about this situation:You are going through someone's desk looking for something. Your listen check alerts you to someone approaching. You quickly run behind the door (full concealment). The person comes into his office and approaches his desk. He tosses some papers on the desk and stretches. He looks around and sees nothing unusual, because you have already taken a movement action through an open area and gone out the door and around the corner (full concealment). This of course assumes that he has not bested your hide and move silently rolls in order to turn around a moment sooner or to hear you step on a squeaky floorboard. “Hey you! Stop! Stop I say! Guards!”I think pointing out that high ceilings may be in shadow illumination might be a good way to get what I want. Unfortunately, if someone has Darkvision, I’d be screwed. But that is okay. That is what Darkvision is for, right?Subsequently, the hide rule talks about using a bluff check to distract someone. It discusses it in a: “What’s that behind you!?” style. In which you distract someone who is already looking right at you and then bolt behind the bushes. “Damn! Now, where did he go?”Bluff might be the way to go in some situations to avoid confrontation. I just thought of two funny examples of a successful bluff and an unsuccessful bluff: A museum guard chases you into a room filled with wax statues. You bluff and pretend you are a statue. He runs by you and into the next room. You sneak away. Second, you are rummaging in someone’s office, and you hear them coming in too late. You can’t of anything to do at a split second, so you grab the lamp shade from the lamp and put it over your head and stand really still in the corner. “Maybe he won’t notice.” “What the...! Guards!”Patrick</blockquote>

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