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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6986525" data-attributes="member: 42582">If I'm finding there to be a mismatch between the suggested ficiton and the mechanics of the game, reiterating what the mechanics are doesn't help cure my sense of mismatch.This is why I prefer&nbsp; [MENTION=6787503]Hriston[/MENTION]'s version - it makes everything hang to gether better. I find it more coherent than the alternative. (Which doesn't imply that the alternative is incoherent. Coherence is a matter of degree.)They can stay still, but the rain won't hide them, because they don't have Mask of the Wild. So (to borrow a turn of phrase from Jeremy Crawford) in their case it won't be as if nature itself cloaks them from prying eyes. In other words, no matter how still and silent they are, they are able to be seen with no WIS check required.I think one point in respect of which I differ from [MENTION=6787503]Hriston[/MENTION] is that, as I envisage it, an elf in the rain is always obscured from sight until s/he moves or calls out, and thus makes herself noticable. That is, I don't envisage Mask of the Wild as an on/off &quot;cloaking device&quot;. I envisage it as a natural state of affairs for elves - if they are not moving, and not making noise, then you won't notice them in the rain, snow, mist or underbrush. It's their fey nature.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6986525, member: 42582"] If I'm finding there to be a mismatch between the suggested ficiton and the mechanics of the game, reiterating what the mechanics are doesn't help cure my sense of mismatch. This is why I prefer [MENTION=6787503]Hriston[/MENTION]'s version - it makes everything hang to gether better. I find it more coherent than the alternative. (Which doesn't imply that the alternative is incoherent. Coherence is a matter of degree.) They can stay still, but the rain won't hide them, because they don't have Mask of the Wild. So (to borrow a turn of phrase from Jeremy Crawford) in their case it won't be as if nature itself cloaks them from prying eyes. In other words, no matter how still and silent they are, they are able to be seen with no WIS check required. I think one point in respect of which I differ from [MENTION=6787503]Hriston[/MENTION] is that, as I envisage it, an elf in the rain is always obscured from sight until s/he moves or calls out, and thus makes herself noticable. That is, I don't envisage Mask of the Wild as an on/off "cloaking device". I envisage it as a natural state of affairs for elves - if they are not moving, and not making noise, then you [I]won't[/I] notice them in the rain, snow, mist or underbrush. It's their fey nature. [/QUOTE]

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