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<blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8064363" data-attributes="member: 6987520">We run it a bit more complex than that.First, your target can't see you in the act of hiding. If they do, they know where you are and your &quot;hiding&quot; is really just taking cover--a completely different thing.Second, your Dexterity (Stealth) check has to stand up against their Wisdom (Perception) check to show you have successfully &quot;hidden&quot;.After that, as long as you don't need to move more than 5 feet (as per JC's &quot;ruling&quot;) you are still effectively hidden and gain advantage on your next attack.But gaining advantage is not simply a matter of stepping out from behind cover, shooting, and moving back behind cover--at least not at our tables. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Otherwise, yeah one of the best ways to gain advantage is to be outside their range of darkvision, in which case they are blind and automatically fail their Wisdom (Perception) checks based on sight. Easy to gain advantage then.None of us find those rules &quot;stingy&quot;, but YMMV. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DND_Reborn, post: 8064363, member: 6987520"] We run it a bit more complex than that. First, your target can't see you in the act of hiding. If they do, they [I]know[/I] where you are and your "hiding" is really just taking cover--a completely different thing. Second, your Dexterity (Stealth) check has to stand up against their Wisdom (Perception) check to show you have successfully "hidden". After that, as long as you don't need to move more than 5 feet (as per JC's "ruling") you are still effectively hidden and gain advantage on your next attack. But gaining advantage is not simply a matter of stepping out from behind cover, shooting, and moving back behind cover--at least not at our tables. ;) Otherwise, yeah one of the best ways to gain advantage is to be outside their range of darkvision, in which case they are blind and automatically fail their Wisdom (Perception) checks based on sight. Easy to gain advantage then. None of us find those rules "stingy", but YMMV. :) [/QUOTE]

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