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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phindar" data-source="post: 3437944" data-attributes="member: 37198">SRD: "Your Hide check is opposed by the Spot check of anyone who might see you."  My group's take on this is you make your Hide check, and then as people come along they make Spots check trying to beat the DC set by your Hide check.  So you'd just make the one Hide check.  (Another interpretation would be to make opposed Hide/Spot rolls whenever someone has a chance of spotting you.  As I recall this came up a little while ago in a post about taking 20 on Hide checks.)See above.  In the case of an extended stalking, its GM's judgement when rechecks might be called for; like if you were sneaking along behind someone through the woods all day long.  As a general rule of thumb, I would say rechecks would be called for whenever circumstances change.  I would think so as well, but your effectiveness at hiding might be limited when Person B runs up and stabs you.  Likewise, Person A might get a circumstance bonus when Person B yells, "He's right there behind that barrel!"  But that's a GM judgement call.SRD:" Total cover or total concealment usually (but not always; see Special, below) obviates the need for a Hide check, since nothing can see you anyway."  The Hide check comes into play when they walk around the cover and look for you again.*Short answer, don't let them get a +55 Hide and a 200 move.  Or if they do, don't worry about them pilfering crowded inn rooms, because thats the sort of thing those characters will do with impunity.* He has to roll Spot.  Though it is within the purview of the GM to apply circumstance bonuses or penalties, or even to say "There is nowhere to Hide in this area."  No.He'd get a Spot check when he first had a chance to see you. But if you were successful at hiding, your opponent would be flat-footed unless he had an ability that countered that, like Uncanny Dodge.</blockquote>

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