WonkaMania
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Hello there everyone. The Hide skill says "use this skill to sink back into the shadows and proceed unseen". I"m focusing on that "proceed" part.
A situation came up in my game I run this past week. The party was fighting some goblins in the woods. One of the goblins was a Rogue, and on his turn he used his movement to go behind a tree and "hide". I gave the players that could possibly see him a spot check, they failed.
On his next turn the (still hidden) goblin moved silently (oppossed by listen checks which failed) and moved around the tree out into the open to attack one of the PC's. Now, I ruled that since he went behind the tree and used the Hide skill, he was "hidden", and the PC's failed there spot checks, so they didn't know where he was. Still using that same Hide vs. spot, the goblin moved towards the character and I ruled was "attacking as an invisible creature". Therefore his target was denied his dex bonus and the goblin got a +2 to his attack. As a result of the target being denied his dex bonus, the goblin also got to apply sneak attack dmg.
So, did I rule that correctly? Can you get behind something and "hide", and then move silently while still using that "hide" check and walk into "open" area and sneak up on someone and apply sneak attack dmg when you attack them?
~Wonka
A situation came up in my game I run this past week. The party was fighting some goblins in the woods. One of the goblins was a Rogue, and on his turn he used his movement to go behind a tree and "hide". I gave the players that could possibly see him a spot check, they failed.
On his next turn the (still hidden) goblin moved silently (oppossed by listen checks which failed) and moved around the tree out into the open to attack one of the PC's. Now, I ruled that since he went behind the tree and used the Hide skill, he was "hidden", and the PC's failed there spot checks, so they didn't know where he was. Still using that same Hide vs. spot, the goblin moved towards the character and I ruled was "attacking as an invisible creature". Therefore his target was denied his dex bonus and the goblin got a +2 to his attack. As a result of the target being denied his dex bonus, the goblin also got to apply sneak attack dmg.
So, did I rule that correctly? Can you get behind something and "hide", and then move silently while still using that "hide" check and walk into "open" area and sneak up on someone and apply sneak attack dmg when you attack them?
~Wonka