Editing Skill Descriptions (section)

==STEALTH== 
DEX
You’re skilled at going unnoticed.
Check: Your Stealth check is opposed by the Notice check of anyone who
might detect you. While using Stealth, you can move up to half your normal
speed at no penalty. At more than half and up to your full speed, you
take a –5 penalty. It’s practically impossible (–20 penalty) to use Stealth
while attacking, moving all out, or charging.
• Size Modifiers: Apply the modifier from your size category to your
Stealth checks to represent the relative ease of noticing smaller and
larger targets (see Size, page 34).
• Hiding: If others have spotted you, you can’t use Stealth to remain
unseen. You can run around a corner so you are out of sight and then
use Stealth to hide, but others then know which way you went. You
can’t hide at all if you have absolutely no cover or concealment, since
that means you’re standing out in plain sight. Of course, if someone
isn’t looking directly at you (you’re sneaking up from behind,
for example), then you have concealment relative to that person.
Characters with the Hide in Plain Sight feat (see page 61) can make
Stealth checks without the need for cover or concealment.
• Creating a Diversion to Hide: A successful Bluff or Intimidate check
can give you the momentary diversion needed to make a Stealth
check while people are aware of you. When others turn their attention
from you, you can make a Stealth check if you can reach cover
or concealment of some kind. (As a general guideline, any cover has
to be within 1 foot for every rank you have in Stealth.) This check,
however, is at a –5 penalty because you have to move quickly.
• Sniping: If you’re successfully hidden at least one Notice range increment
away from a subject (usually 10 feet), then you can make a
ranged attack and immediately hide again, but you suffer a –20 penalty
to your Stealth check.
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• Tailing: You can use Stealth to tail someone
at your normal speed. This assumes you have
some cover or concealment (crowds of people,
shadows, fog, etc.). If the subject is worried
about being followed, he can make a Notice
check (opposed by your Stealth check) every
time he changes course (goes around a street
corner, exits a building, and so on). If he is
unsuspecting, he only gets a Notice check
after each hour of being tailed. If the subject
notices you, you can make a Bluff check,
opposed by Sense Motive. If you succeed, you
manage to pass off your presence as coincidence
and can continue tailing. A failed Bluff
check, or being noticed a second time, means
the subject knows something is up.
Action: Stealth is a move action.