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DM Help! My rogue always spams Hide as a bonus action, and i cant target him!
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<blockquote data-quote="ThePolarBear" data-source="post: 6949879" data-attributes="member: 6857451"><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Except that's exactly what you meant, since you made the example of a rogue under greater invisibility. But hey, who am i to see that your carpet statements are actually wrong, right?</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">There's no correct response. There's no wrong response. There's DM adjudication.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Let's do it!</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>"Hiding</p><p></p><p>The GM decides when the circumstances are appropriate for hiding. When you try to hide, make a Dexterity (Stealth) check. Until you are discovered or stop hiding, that check's total is contested by the Wisdom (Perception) check of a creature that actively searches for signs of your presence.</p><p></p><p>You can't hide from a creature that can see you clearly, and you give away your position if you make noise, such shouting a warning or knocking over a vase.</p><p></p><p>An invisible creature can always try to hide. Signs of its passage might still be noticed, and it does have to stay quiet.</p><p></p><p>In combat, most creatures stay alert for signs of danger all around, so if you come out of hiding and approach a creature, it usually sees you. However, under certain circumstances, the GM might allow you to stay hidden as you approach a creature that is distracted, allowing you to gain advantage on an attack roll before you are seen.</p><p></p><p>Passive perception.</p><p></p><p>When you hide, there's a chance that someone will notice you even if they aren't searching. To determine whether such a creature notices you, the GM comppares your Dexterity (Stealth) check with that creature's passive Wisdom (Perception) score, which equals 10 + the creature's Wisdom modifier, as well as any other bonuses"(sigh)" and penalities. If a creature has advantage, add 5. For disadvantage, subtract 5. For example, if a 1st level character (with a proficiency bonus of +2) has a Wisdom of 15 (a +2 modifier) and proficiency in Perception, he or she has a passive Wisdom (Perception) of 14.</p><p></p><p>What can you see?</p><p></p><p>One of the main factors in determining wheter you can fing a hidden creature or object is how well you can see in an area, which might be lightly or heavily obscured, as explained in "The Environment"."</p><p>--</p><p></p><p></p><p>I do not see any mention of:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I can walk behind a pillar, break los, take the hide action, be really quiet AS LONG AS THE DM ALLOWS ME TO DO IT. There's NOTHING that requires your position to be unknown. NOTHING. The only thing that my position is known affects is my probability of REMAINING hidden. And hiding, as per "Unseen attackers and targets" section: you are "hidden - both unseen and unheard -"</p><p></p><p>The problem is that, as a whole, the DM and the players have knowledge of all that is happening. The characters in game have not this luxury. A person runs behind a pillar and tries to hide. The pursuers have seen the person running behind a pillar and since there's no indication that there's something wrong except no particular sound or anything, rush to the last known position. They find the person. Or a dragon. Or a punch to the face. Or nothing at all.</p><p></p><p>Is it a STUPID action? Yes, yes it is. Is it allowed RAW? Yes, yes it is. It has consequences? Yes, yes it has.</p><p>What you are doing is akin to telling the player "no that is stupid you can't". Let them. If they want to jump into a fire, let them.</p><p></p><p>That is why there's the BIG difference in "popping out of cover". For your ruling, there are extra requirements for hiding that the base rules DO NOT REQUIRE AT ALL. And that's why popping out of cover is a "big deal" for someone else. It might be easier to find an hiding spot where someone might act in secrecy, but this also has a necessary corollary of not allowing every spot a combat relevance. A strict enforcing of "vision" is what does the job. You pass that job BEFORE the action can be even taken. Others enforce that to end the action.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's nothing you think i can do. There are MANY things that obtain such a result. Hiding is not one of those things. Nor it's an effect that anyone ever said hiding had.</p><p></p><p><u><em>you saw me go behing a pillar... AND?</em></u> </p><p></p><p>The point of hiding is being hidden - unseen and unheard. The successfulness of that action is determined by a roll. The duration of such an action is determined by how smartly it was used. If you saw me going into hiding... i must be hiding, then. For a very short amount of time if i have no way to GTFrecklesO.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In common english it means exactly what you read before it means anything else. The fact that over the course of revisions what you are saying has been REMOVED from the wording might mean that that what you are saying was, in fact, unintended or found to be problematic. Or, you know, a mistake, since humans are fallible. Either way it was added (since it was NOT in the first printing) and then removed (current errata no longer has that part). Make what you want out of that information.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It doesn't make sense if we assume that the COMMONER IS NOT PLAYING D&D. The second part is important. DM rolling dices. Your wording. A joke, i guess.</p><p>By the way, he also gets the important part. DM adjudication ftw.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This part is true for you too. You just take another step forward. If this was not true for you, you could hide in plain sight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThePolarBear, post: 6949879, member: 6857451"] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] Except that's exactly what you meant, since you made the example of a rogue under greater invisibility. But hey, who am i to see that your carpet statements are actually wrong, right? [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] There's no correct response. There's no wrong response. There's DM adjudication.[/COLOR] Let's do it! -- "Hiding The GM decides when the circumstances are appropriate for hiding. When you try to hide, make a Dexterity (Stealth) check. Until you are discovered or stop hiding, that check's total is contested by the Wisdom (Perception) check of a creature that actively searches for signs of your presence. You can't hide from a creature that can see you clearly, and you give away your position if you make noise, such shouting a warning or knocking over a vase. An invisible creature can always try to hide. Signs of its passage might still be noticed, and it does have to stay quiet. In combat, most creatures stay alert for signs of danger all around, so if you come out of hiding and approach a creature, it usually sees you. However, under certain circumstances, the GM might allow you to stay hidden as you approach a creature that is distracted, allowing you to gain advantage on an attack roll before you are seen. Passive perception. When you hide, there's a chance that someone will notice you even if they aren't searching. To determine whether such a creature notices you, the GM comppares your Dexterity (Stealth) check with that creature's passive Wisdom (Perception) score, which equals 10 + the creature's Wisdom modifier, as well as any other bonuses"(sigh)" and penalities. If a creature has advantage, add 5. For disadvantage, subtract 5. For example, if a 1st level character (with a proficiency bonus of +2) has a Wisdom of 15 (a +2 modifier) and proficiency in Perception, he or she has a passive Wisdom (Perception) of 14. What can you see? One of the main factors in determining wheter you can fing a hidden creature or object is how well you can see in an area, which might be lightly or heavily obscured, as explained in "The Environment"." -- I do not see any mention of: I can walk behind a pillar, break los, take the hide action, be really quiet AS LONG AS THE DM ALLOWS ME TO DO IT. There's NOTHING that requires your position to be unknown. NOTHING. The only thing that my position is known affects is my probability of REMAINING hidden. And hiding, as per "Unseen attackers and targets" section: you are "hidden - both unseen and unheard -" The problem is that, as a whole, the DM and the players have knowledge of all that is happening. The characters in game have not this luxury. A person runs behind a pillar and tries to hide. The pursuers have seen the person running behind a pillar and since there's no indication that there's something wrong except no particular sound or anything, rush to the last known position. They find the person. Or a dragon. Or a punch to the face. Or nothing at all. Is it a STUPID action? Yes, yes it is. Is it allowed RAW? Yes, yes it is. It has consequences? Yes, yes it has. What you are doing is akin to telling the player "no that is stupid you can't". Let them. If they want to jump into a fire, let them. That is why there's the BIG difference in "popping out of cover". For your ruling, there are extra requirements for hiding that the base rules DO NOT REQUIRE AT ALL. And that's why popping out of cover is a "big deal" for someone else. It might be easier to find an hiding spot where someone might act in secrecy, but this also has a necessary corollary of not allowing every spot a combat relevance. A strict enforcing of "vision" is what does the job. You pass that job BEFORE the action can be even taken. Others enforce that to end the action. There's nothing you think i can do. There are MANY things that obtain such a result. Hiding is not one of those things. Nor it's an effect that anyone ever said hiding had. [U][I]you saw me go behing a pillar... AND?[/I][/U] The point of hiding is being hidden - unseen and unheard. The successfulness of that action is determined by a roll. The duration of such an action is determined by how smartly it was used. If you saw me going into hiding... i must be hiding, then. For a very short amount of time if i have no way to GTFrecklesO. In common english it means exactly what you read before it means anything else. The fact that over the course of revisions what you are saying has been REMOVED from the wording might mean that that what you are saying was, in fact, unintended or found to be problematic. Or, you know, a mistake, since humans are fallible. Either way it was added (since it was NOT in the first printing) and then removed (current errata no longer has that part). Make what you want out of that information. It doesn't make sense if we assume that the COMMONER IS NOT PLAYING D&D. The second part is important. DM rolling dices. Your wording. A joke, i guess. By the way, he also gets the important part. DM adjudication ftw. This part is true for you too. You just take another step forward. If this was not true for you, you could hide in plain sight. [/QUOTE]
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