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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8099604" data-attributes="member: 16814">Unless you've rolled initiative, though, you're not in combat so the Hide action isn't really on the table.&nbsp; Bob is hiding, though, and him rolling his DEX (Stealth) check is going to say how well he hides.&nbsp; If invisibility renders his location unknowable, then Bob shouldn't have to hide, or maybe I don't understand what will happen in this scenario if Bob botches his DEX check.&nbsp; Does the guard locate Bob, or just hear something and become curious?Or, do you run non-combat in rounds and enforce the combat action economy?&nbsp; I mean, in my game, this would look pretty much the same -- Bob is trying to be sneaky.&nbsp; This doesn't interfere with searching for a secret door at all (again, in my game).&nbsp; It's an approach that may make finding the secret door more difficult or not, I'd have to hear how Bob is searching.&nbsp; But, given Bob is invisible, I'd probably grant autosuccess to his hide check from a guard in a parapet 30 or so feet above.&nbsp; If Bob didn't hide, though, the guard, presumably alert, would notice something amiss pretty quickly.&nbsp; And, if initiative started, the guard would know Bob's location well enough to not have to guess where to attack, if not his precise location.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8099604, member: 16814"] Unless you've rolled initiative, though, you're not in combat so the Hide action isn't really on the table. Bob is hiding, though, and him rolling his DEX (Stealth) check is going to say how well he hides. If invisibility renders his location unknowable, then Bob shouldn't have to hide, or maybe I don't understand what will happen in this scenario if Bob botches his DEX check. Does the guard locate Bob, or just hear something and become curious? Or, do you run non-combat in rounds and enforce the combat action economy? I mean, in my game, this would look pretty much the same -- Bob is trying to be sneaky. This doesn't interfere with searching for a secret door at all (again, in my game). It's an approach that may make finding the secret door more difficult or not, I'd have to hear how Bob is searching. But, given Bob is invisible, I'd probably grant autosuccess to his hide check from a guard in a parapet 30 or so feet above. If Bob didn't hide, though, the guard, presumably alert, would notice something amiss pretty quickly. And, if initiative started, the guard would know Bob's location well enough to not have to guess where to attack, if not his precise location. [/QUOTE]

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