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<blockquote data-quote="TaranTheWanderer" data-source="post: 8099492" data-attributes="member: 15882">1st:&nbsp; Thank-you for not ignoring my question2nd:&nbsp; I just don't get where it says sneaking is an action.&nbsp; Is that PHB?&nbsp; I always assumed you could sneak quietly as part of your move.I get it that HIDING requires an action in combat because you have to physically find a place to hide and try to evade notice - hence the Rogue's ability to do it as a cunning action but hiding isn't a button you push to go into stealth mode.&nbsp; If you are invisible, you don't really need to find a place to hide.&nbsp; You just need to quietly tip toe around and not be heard.So, if my character has a 50 foot movement speed and I'm 10 feet from an enemy, I could sneak using 20 feet of my movement, attack and then retreat.&nbsp; Could I not use the rest of my 30 feet to try to quietly move 15 feet and try to elude detection so they don't know which way my character went?I mean, I get the action tax on Stealth as a game balance thing.&nbsp; It just doesn't make much sense to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TaranTheWanderer, post: 8099492, member: 15882"] 1st: Thank-you for not ignoring my question 2nd: I just don't get where it says sneaking is an action. Is that PHB? I always assumed you could sneak quietly as part of your move. I get it that HIDING requires an action in combat because you have to physically find a place to hide and try to evade notice - hence the Rogue's ability to do it as a cunning action but hiding isn't a button you push to go into stealth mode. If you are invisible, you don't really need to find a place to hide. You just need to quietly tip toe around and not be heard. So, if my character has a 50 foot movement speed and I'm 10 feet from an enemy, I could sneak using 20 feet of my movement, attack and then retreat. Could I not use the rest of my 30 feet to try to quietly move 15 feet and try to elude detection so they don't know which way my character went? I mean, I get the action tax on Stealth as a game balance thing. It just doesn't make much sense to me. [/QUOTE]

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