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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 6995047" data-attributes="member: 6788736">I dont think we really need any such distinction. If you're distracted, you're distracted. You can sneak up on a bored guard as easy as you can sneak up on a Hobgoblin who is locked in combat with your Barbarian buddy (and busy dodging his great axe). Its just an ad-hoc ruling. Unless they're alert or the environment forces you to walk past them or be in plain sight (two guards either side of a door for example) I'll generally allow it.We dont need any special rules for it. Stealth is a combination of the [move silent] and [hide] skills [or a combination of hide in shadows and move silently abilities for the old school among us]. In combat, to use them you need to take the Hide action.If a critter wants to sneak up on someone [in a combat scenario] from someone not looking at them, they take the Hide action [they cant be seen by their victim] and then move. If they're a rogue 2 or better they can also attack once they get there [or hide + move + dash] to cover more ground than a non rogue.Its just an application of common sense, over some kind of tortured flowchart of exceptions and rules jargon.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 6995047, member: 6788736"] I dont think we really need any such distinction. If you're distracted, you're distracted. You can sneak up on a bored guard as easy as you can sneak up on a Hobgoblin who is locked in combat with your Barbarian buddy (and busy dodging his great axe). Its just an ad-hoc ruling. Unless they're alert or the environment forces you to walk past them or be in plain sight (two guards either side of a door for example) I'll generally allow it. We dont need any special rules for it. Stealth is a combination of the [move silent] and [hide] skills [or a combination of hide in shadows and move silently abilities for the old school among us]. In combat, to use them you need to take the Hide action. If a critter wants to sneak up on someone [in a combat scenario] from someone not looking at them, they take the Hide action [they cant be seen by their victim] and then move. If they're a rogue 2 or better they can also attack once they get there [or hide + move + dash] to cover more ground than a non rogue. Its just an application of common sense, over some kind of tortured flowchart of exceptions and rules jargon. [/QUOTE]

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