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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairfoot" data-source="post: 3167840" data-attributes="member: 23732">Just getting in my end-of-the-world-is-nigh prediction on the off chance it comes to pass and I get to look prescient.What I've seen happen usually is: someone will state, quite reasonably, that since hiding is part of movement a PC can attack, then HiPS with as much as a five foot step.  Others will respond to say this use is broken because it allows a shadowdancer to be effectively invisible at all times.Posters will put their various interpretations and house rules, then someone will mention sneak attacks, prompting another poster to point out that the rules don't specifically allow SA from hiding.  This generates a flood of replies saying that of course it does: it's the single greatest use of the hide skill for rogues.  Thus it becomes a debate over spirit of the game versus RAW.Then, after three pages of bitter "we play our game properly, but you're all just powergamers/rogue-nerfers" the thread gets shut by the mods.It will surprise no-one at all that I saw most of this in the Wizards boards, not here.In our game we use the sniping rules, and give the HiPSter a -20 to hide after attacking.</blockquote>