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Message: <blockquote data-quote="schatten-k.raehe" data-source="post: 2964390" data-attributes="member: 40627">I'm not sure about that, either. As the feat only affects mysteries cast as spells, it is much weaker than other Metashadow feats. Therefore I've been following the same reasoning as you thus far. After all it will cost a shadowcaster at least two feats (Still Mystery AND Armor Proficiency (light)) to use armor effectively without risking spell failure when casting his highest level mysteries.It depends. In most cases you don't need cover or concealment to hide anymore, however Hide in Plain Sight usually has some kind of special rules. For example the Shadowdancer can Hide in Plain Sight (without any cover or concealment) as long as he is within 10 feet of some kind of shadow (except his own) [DMG p. 195] and a Dark Creature can Hide in Plain Sight while not in full daylight, the area of a daylight spell or similar effect [TM p. 161]. Thus cover or concealment would still come quite handy to a Dark Creature standing out in full daylight <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It depends on the sort of cover or concealment, the kind of creature you try to hide from and the fact if someone is observing you. Hide in Plain Sight allows you to hide from creatures even while being observed. Thus without Hide in Plain Sight, partial cover / concealment is quite useless when being observed by a creature you try to hide from.Further some kinds of concealment don't work for all creatures equally! For example you may hide from a human while being in an area of shadowy illumination (giving you concealment), but a creature with darkvision can still see you (at least while within range of its darkvision), because it can clearly see through the area of shadowy illumination (thus you don't benefit from concealment against that creature). You can, however, hide from a creature with darkvision by means of the Hide in Plain Sight feature easily.If you have full concealment from a given creature, you don't have to make a hide check, because the creature can't see you anyway (as long as you have total concealment you are in fact hidden). However again the kind of total concealment can be of different qualities. For example you'll have total concealment from an ordinary human in an area of complete darkness, however you do not have any kind of concealment from a creature with darkvision in the same area until you succeed on a hide check (if the circumstances allow a hide check, making the Hide in Plain Sight feature quite attractive again)I guess the other answers have already solved this issue as well, haven't they?</blockquote>

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