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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plaguescarred" data-source="post: 6967884" data-attributes="member: 6701422">The elf doesn't only have the ability to remain hidden in lightly obscured foliage, but to also try to hide in it, even though being lightly obscured doesn't block vision like you agreed, which means that the elf can still be seen until it successfully hide and become unseen.Of course he cannot be seen while hidden (provided that some level of obscurement is maintained), because being hidden means you're now unseen and unheard!Yes it does since being lightly obscured doesn't block vision. Anyone lightly obscured, elf or not, can be seen when not hidden. You're right that Mask of the Wild doesn't confer any ability to not be seen clearly before becoming hidden, what it does it still aloow it to try to hide regardless. That is why Sage Advice says;''Normally, you can’t hide from someone if you’re in full view. A lightfoot halfling, though, can try to vanish behind a creature that is at least one size larger, and a wood elf can try to hide simply by being in heavy rain, mist, falling snow, foliage, or similar natural phenomena.Both subraces are capable of hiding in situations unavailable to most other creatures''If below the observers nearby were creature not seeing the human and the elf clearly, both could try to hide! Here  observers are people actually seeing them instead otherwise it wouldn't say they're capable of hiding in situations unavailable to most other creatures since anyone can try to hide from observers not seeing them.''Do the lightfoot halfling and wood elf hiding racial traits allow them to hide while observed? The lightfoot halfling and wood elf traits—Naturally Stealthy and Mask of the Wild—do allow members of those subraces to try to hide in their special circumstances even when observers are nearby.'' </blockquote>

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