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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6956064" data-attributes="member: 58197">For most monsters, that tactic is strictly worse than just attacking every round. Each Hide action costs you a round's worth of attacks. Unless you have Sneak Attack, one attack with advantage is always worse than two attacks without: Either way, you get two attack rolls, but with two attacks you have the potential for two hits, while one attack with advantage can only ever hit once. Not only that, but you have to wait until the second round to deal any damage.It's a potent strategy for the rogue because of a) Sneak Attack and b) Cunning Action. For monsters that have neither of those things, it's a loser.Furthermore, as I mentioned a looooooong way back, the DM has a fair bit of leeway to judge when the pillar-hider is and is not noticed. To shoot, you have to lean out from behind the pillar, making yourself visible. It is then the DM's judgement whether you can be seen "clearly" and whether the monsters are observant enough to notice you in that moment. If a monster is watching the pillar closely, the DM can quite fairly argue that you lose your hidden status the instant you lean out to shoot, and thus do not get advantage on that foe.(On the other hand, if the rogue was an Arcane Trickster and created the illusion of a pillar, the rogue could then shoot through the pillar without emerging at all, and would thus have advantage. The monster can stare at that pillar all day, but it still won't know when the rogue is attacking and where he's aiming.)</blockquote>

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