Hi - Something I'm trying to figure out is can a Boneclaw hide in plain sight - no cover, out in the open - if it's in darkness or dim light? The reason I ask is I have a party about to face a Boneclaw, in a pitch-black cavern (darkness), and most of them have Darkvision. So can the Boneclaw just be hiding in the middle of the cave, using its Shadow Stealth? Or does it need to be hiding behind something, out of the character's line-of-sight?
Another way of putting it is: is Shadow Stealth just a conditional form of Cunning Action?
You've reminded me of how much I despise the way they published the hiding rules. Would it have been so difficult to just have a section explaining how hiding in combat works in the same part of the book where the Hide combat action is? No, obviously the right place for those rules is under "Initiative", in the "using ability scores" section. How foolish of me.
Anyway, as best I can tell, "the DM decides when the conditions are appropriate for hiding" means whether or not a Boneclaw can hide in darkness without any other type of cover is completely up to you. I would say yes it can, mostly because it makes the Boneclaw dramatically scarier.
Hi - Something I'm trying to figure out is can a Boneclaw hide in plain sight - no cover, out in the open - if it's in darkness or dim light? The reason I ask is I have a party about to face a Boneclaw, in a pitch-black cavern (darkness), and most of them have Darkvision. So can the Boneclaw just be hiding in the middle of the cave, using its Shadow Stealth? Or does it need to be hiding behind something, out of the character's line-of-sight?
Another way of putting it is: is Shadow Stealth just a conditional form of Cunning Action?
Since the ability doesn't say that it overrides any other of the normal rules about hiding, I'd say that it is just a conditional Cunning Action.
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Hi - Something I'm trying to figure out is can a Boneclaw hide in plain sight - no cover, out in the open - if it's in darkness or dim light? The reason I ask is I have a party about to face a Boneclaw, in a pitch-black cavern (darkness), and most of them have Darkvision. So can the Boneclaw just be hiding in the middle of the cave, using its Shadow Stealth? Or does it need to be hiding behind something, out of the character's line-of-sight?
Another way of putting it is: is Shadow Stealth just a conditional form of Cunning Action?
You've reminded me of how much I despise the way they published the hiding rules. Would it have been so difficult to just have a section explaining how hiding in combat works in the same part of the book where the Hide combat action is? No, obviously the right place for those rules is under "Initiative", in the "using ability scores" section. How foolish of me.
Anyway, as best I can tell, "the DM decides when the conditions are appropriate for hiding" means whether or not a Boneclaw can hide in darkness without any other type of cover is completely up to you. I would say yes it can, mostly because it makes the Boneclaw dramatically scarier.
Since the ability doesn't say that it overrides any other of the normal rules about hiding, I'd say that it is just a conditional Cunning Action.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.