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<blockquote data-quote="Greenstone.Walker" data-source="post: 6910628" data-attributes="member: 6788312">Being unseen is a prerequisite of being Hidden. Hiding, in the game mechanic, is being unseen, unheard, unsmelt, unfelt, leaving no tracks, disturbing none of the envionment, etc. A Hidden person is concealed with respect to all of an observer's senses. An unseen person (which includes invisibility) is only concealed with respect to vision.Being unseen means you can now attempt to Hide (because you can't Hide if you are observed).Being invisible, however, has lots and lots of other advantages. Some examples: You can't be targeted with magic missile or chain lightning or eldritch blast, or anything else with &quot;that you can see&quot; in it's targeting sentence (which includes helpful spells like bless and healing word, so be careful). Neither detect magic nor detect evil detects you (sort-of - detect magic will detect the presence of magic within 30ft of the caster, but they can't get location and college). You get advantage on attacks if your target can't see you; attackers get disadvantage because they can't see you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greenstone.Walker, post: 6910628, member: 6788312"] Being unseen is a prerequisite of being Hidden. Hiding, in the game mechanic, is being unseen, unheard, unsmelt, unfelt, leaving no tracks, disturbing none of the envionment, etc. A Hidden person is concealed with respect to all of an observer's senses. An unseen person (which includes invisibility) is only concealed with respect to vision. Being unseen means you can now attempt to Hide (because you can't Hide if you are observed). Being invisible, however, has lots and lots of other advantages. Some examples: You can't be targeted with magic missile or chain lightning or eldritch blast, or anything else with "that you can see" in it's targeting sentence (which includes helpful spells like bless and healing word, so be careful). Neither detect magic nor detect evil detects you (sort-of - detect magic will detect the presence of magic within 30ft of the caster, but they can't get location and college). You get advantage on attacks if your target can't see you; attackers get disadvantage because they can't see you. [/QUOTE]

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