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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3569454" data-attributes="member: 22779">Nice twist.Sorry, didn't say that you have to hide when you are observed.  That's your thing.  I said that you have to roll your hide check if and when there is a chance of being observed.Note, by what you've said here, you are saying that a person hiding can never move out from behind cover.  If that's true, what is the point of making a hide check in the first place?  If I have cover, you can't see me, ever.  If I automatically cannot hide if I don't have cover, then, attempting to move from behind cover while hiding as part of a move action would be impossible.  The second I broke cover, I would no longer be using the Hide skill.The entire point of an opposed check is that you make it in opposition to something.  I suppose it doesn't matter if you roll beforehand so long as you are forced to keep that result.  However, that's not the way skills usually work.  TYPO - Why do you feel that you can hide from no one?  When you use the Hide skill, you are trying to not be seen.  If there is no one around to see you, who are you hiding from?  Why is that different from sitting at home and practicing a Bluff check?I would say that without opposition, you have no way of judging how well you perform the skill.  I can think that I'm hidden all day long, but, until there is someone to see me, I'm not doing anything.</blockquote>