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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D'Raven" data-source="post: 6053955" data-attributes="member: 6699311">Mostly i see hide In plain sight as a mechanic that shows you are really good at using the hide skill.How is it ill defined? From the srd. "a shadow dancer can use the hide skill even while being observed. As long as she is within 10 feet of some sort of shadow. A shadow dancer can hide herself from view in the open with out anything to actually hide behind. She can not how ever hide in her own shadow." that seems defined to me. You can not hide when some one is watching you normally because they see where you go. This let's you do that.It gives the prerequisite needed for the ability to function. It tells you what it does. Removes the need to physically have something to hide behind.And it tells you the limitation of it. Stop thinking it cloaks you on shadows it doesn't mention anything about that.not even I the dungeon masters manual as fluff. If it did the ability wouldn't work out side of shadow. A shadowy blob is standing 10 feet from the shadow. At that point it would give a miss chance not the ability to hide. It is more like knowing how to blend in to the back ground. Yes it is far fetched when you look at it from the rules as they are. It is like trying to understand how the reserve feats work in the system. It changes the rules of the system where they apply to the one using it.</blockquote>