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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 2771916" data-attributes="member: 3146">And because of the way that hide and move silently skills work, unless there's a really exceptional guard at the end of the 300 feet on the moor, as soon as you say you take ten, you have guaranteed that you can make it to 100 feet without being spotted. That's assuming that you have the same hide modifier as he has spot. But, since you are a rogue who probably has at least a +12 hide or so, and he is probably just a guard with a wisdom modifier and Alertness if he's lucky, so if you take ten rather than rolling, you're probably guaranteed to get thirty feet away before he even has a chance to notice you. Odds are pretty good that you can get right next to him without being spotted.On the other hand, if you roll, you are only guaranteed to make it to 130 feet and the last thirty to forty feet will be risky.If you roll once, on the other hand, you're almost always guaranteed to get right next to the guard without being spotted--and that without even a particularly good hide modifier.</blockquote>