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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xetheral" data-source="post: 9426096" data-attributes="member: 6802765">It's reasonable in the abstract that someone hiding stops being hidden if they leave cover or concealment. But I'm not sure it's a reasonable interpretation of the new rules, since it makes the Hide action practically useless.Out-of-combat, a creature in 3/4 cover might (depending on how the requirements are interpreted) be able to become unseen by taking the Hide Action. But creatures in total cover or heavy obscurement gain literally nothing by taking the Hide action. It doesn't help them become unseen (because they already are); stay unseen (because under this interpretation one loses the Invisible condition if one leaves cover or concealment); or become or remain unheard (because the 2024 Hide action rules don't provide any such benefit). And the same is true in-combat if the 2024 rules still provide the "Attacks Affected" benefit of the Invisible condition to anyone who is unseen, the way the Unseen Attackers rule does in the 2014 rules.</blockquote>