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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 3547129" data-attributes="member: 2525">I disagree.  Go into a changing room backstage of a play.  You tell me that isn't a distracting situation.  This is one of the principle reasons people have their own changing rooms, makeup rooms, and trailors.   You can definitely be distracted while putting on a disguise.  Even one that takes longer than 1d3x10 minutes to put on.You are reading more into it than is there.  You're inferring that you cannot hide unless you are doing something that would challege it.  But that isn't implied by the rules.  It's a standard skill, and covered by the standard skill traits (unless otherwise specified - like with Use Magic Device).I think forgery, disguise, and hide can all be done with a take 10, and all be done under distracting circumstances in which case you could not take 10.  Trying to forge a document on the fly while writing over someone's back in the middle of a crowd on a street just before you need the document you are forging is a distracting environment and therefore cannot be done with a take 10. There are not categories of skills that you can always take 10, or always not take 10, except if specified in the skill description itself like Use Magic Device.</blockquote>