You see... that little tidbid would have been helpful right at the beginning...dcollins said:I'm looking at & playing 3.0 .
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20040622aRotG - Movement said:Hide
According to the Hide skill description, hiding isn't an action at all, except when you use the sniping option (see page 76 in the Player's Handbook), in which case hiding is a move action. For all practical purposes, however, you hide as a move action or as part of a move action. That is, if you're moving, you hide as part of your movement (something like drawing a weapon, see Part 2). If you don't move, it still takes you a move action to hide.
You take a -5 penalty on your Hide check if you move more than half your speed. In this case, you must track your speed by the action, not by the turn. If you move your speed as a move action, you take the penalty even if you don't move during the remainder of your turn. Likewise, speed is the amount of movement you expend, not the actual distance you move across the battlefield. If your movement is hampered, for example, and you move as far as you can possibly go as a move action (or as a full-round action), you take the -5 penalty.
focallength said:That brings up the question how good are you without all your fancy equipment?
A character with the hide in plain sight class feature (described on page 48 in the Player’s Handbook) can make a Hide check even if she’s being observed. This doesn’t require any extra action to accomplish (unlike the sniping maneuver).
Thanee said:At high levels, the equipment makes up a pretty large part of your abilities.
Are you saying that this in making HiPS a free action?Abraxas said:Sorry mikebr99, but thats been changed in the Main 3.5 FAQ 03-25-2005
A character with the hide in plain sight class feature (described on page 48 in the Player’s Handbook) can make a Hide check even if she’s being observed. This doesn’t require any extra action to accomplish (unlike the sniping maneuver).
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No, its not a free action.Are you saying that this in making HiPS a free action?
Right, Its not an action, just like it says in the PHB, so it can be combined with any other type of action, like attacking.Because I would say that the above is just saying that HiPS doesn't take any more time then the hide skill would anyway.