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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8353907" data-attributes="member: 7030563">I was saying if there was nowhere to hide on your turn.  If you know there will be a place to hide due to an environmental (darkness, fog, invisibility ...).  Yes you give up whatever other action you would have taken this turn to be hidden at the start of your next turn (assuming your stealth check succeeds and no one uses search to find you).To use your rogue example -  if there is nowhere to hide this turn I can not take hide as a bonus action this turn.  If I ready an action I can start the next turn hidden with all the advantages that applies and then after I expose myself I can take hide again as a bonus action (assuming there is still obscuration on my turn) and then I can move some after that to be in a new location while hidden making it very difficult to be targeted.  This is strictly better than taking hide as a bonus action at the start of the turn, moving exposing myself and then still being exposed when my turn ends.There is also a matter of success.  You do not automatically suceed on hide checks, by taking one as a reaction I might start the next turn hidden and if I don't then I can use my BA at the begining of the turn to try again.  I get two chances instead of one.  Whether or not that is better than another action you could have taken is a different discussion and dependent on the specific situation.</blockquote>