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<blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8047166" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Well, by the books you don't need to be in darkness to hide, you simply need to be unseen when you attempt to Hide if you do so while in dim light or light obscurement. In fact, Hiding in darkness is pointless (unless it is just to be quiet of course) since you are automatically unseen. &quot;Shadows&quot; are considered dim light, and people hide in shadows all the time. Now, if someone watches you doing it, they are going to see you trying to Hide and know where you are. <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=";)" />There is a reason why there is disadvantage on perception checks in dim light. You aren't &quot;clearly seen&quot;.As to the types of distractions, it could be a number of things. One foe might reveal themselves, making noise, etc. to allow others to attack while the party is distracted. They could toss a rock or something, making noise to put there attention &quot;over there&quot;!You can fire a ranged weapon from any &quot;Hidden&quot; position, it doesn't need to be from darkness. If you fire from darkness, you are automatically &quot;unseen&quot; and have advantage--that is totally correct.No, you aren't really &quot;Hiding&quot; behind terrain. If the observer sees you moving there, you simply have cover (total or less depending on the size of the object). They are aware of your location, even if they can't target you due to losing light of sight.Correct, it is all about surprise. Remember that a creature cannot even take reactions during a surprise round until its turn comes up. Although the surprised creature can't act on its turn, from that point on it can still take reactions normally.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DND_Reborn, post: 8047166, member: 6987520"] Well, by the books you don't [I]need [/I]to be in darkness to hide, you simply need to be [I]unseen [/I]when you attempt to Hide if you do so while in dim light or light obscurement. In fact, Hiding in darkness is pointless (unless it is just to be quiet of course) since you are automatically unseen. "Shadows" are considered dim light, and people hide in shadows all the time. Now, if someone [I]watches[/I] you doing it, they are going to see you trying to Hide and know where you are. ;) There is a reason why there is disadvantage on perception checks in dim light. You aren't "clearly seen". As to the types of distractions, it could be a number of things. One foe might reveal themselves, making noise, etc. to allow others to attack while the party is distracted. They could toss a rock or something, making noise to put there attention "over there"! You can fire a ranged weapon from any "Hidden" position, it doesn't need to be from darkness. If you fire from darkness, you are automatically "unseen" and have advantage--that is totally correct. No, you aren't really "Hiding" behind terrain. If the observer [I]sees[/I] you moving there, you simply have cover (total or less depending on the size of the object). They are aware of your location, even if they can't target you due to losing light of sight. Correct, it is all about surprise. Remember that a creature cannot even take reactions during a surprise round until its turn comes up. Although the surprised creature can't act on its turn, from that point on it can still take reactions normally. [/QUOTE]

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