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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8374524" data-attributes="member: 16814">Sorry, where are you pulling this from?&nbsp; Page numbers are helpful.&nbsp; The PHB I have says the GM determines if the situation allows hiding, but there's a HUGE preponderance of evidence that it can be done, and especially direct evidence that a lightfoot halfling can hide freely behind a larger creature.&nbsp; Ruling that you cannot hide in combat is possible, sure, but at this point you're not actually relying on the PHB, but instead taking one statement out of context and deciding that's the only important thing there.I mean, I'm a huge proponent of &quot;GM decides&quot; being the core mechanic of 5e, but it's quite a thing to say that you can't hide in combat given the preponderance of evidence otherwise in just the PHB.RAW says if they can't see you clearly.&nbsp; RAW also says that a lightfoot halfling CAN hide behind a larger creature, which explicitly indicates that, in that case, the lightfoot halfling cannot be seen clearly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8374524, member: 16814"] Sorry, where are you pulling this from? Page numbers are helpful. The PHB I have says the GM determines if the situation allows hiding, but there's a HUGE preponderance of evidence that it can be done, and especially direct evidence that a lightfoot halfling can hide freely behind a larger creature. Ruling that you cannot hide in combat is possible, sure, but at this point you're not actually relying on the PHB, but instead taking one statement out of context and deciding that's the only important thing there. I mean, I'm a huge proponent of "GM decides" being the core mechanic of 5e, but it's quite a thing to say that you can't hide in combat given the preponderance of evidence otherwise in just the PHB. RAW says if they can't see you clearly. RAW also says that a lightfoot halfling CAN hide behind a larger creature, which explicitly indicates that, in that case, the lightfoot halfling [I]cannot be seen clearly[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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