Stealth

Stealth covers all situations in which you want to remain unnoticed. The form of stealth differs according to how you want to stay hidden:

You just hide

Basic advantage +5 to hiding

The easiest concealment maneuver within Stealth is hiding. You find a suitable spot (preferably dark), crouch down, crawl under a bed, behind a curtain or roll yourself up in a carpet. The worse the area is lit and the more confusing the terrain of the spot, the greater your chance that no one will find you.

The drawback of hiding is, of course, that the victim must come to you. You therefore have to lurk where they will pass. The advantage is the ease of the task: you don't have to worry about the noise of your walking, and your movement is not visible.

Modifiers

You gain an advantage when the terrain is very confusing and, if possible, the victim makes noise. Conversely, the opponent has an advantage when you don't have at least some cover or are not covered by darkness or mist.

You move quietly out of sight

No one has an advantage

You move so that your opponents cannot see you (they have their backs turned, are behind a wall, are asleep, it is pitch dark and so on). As you move, the floor must not creak, your gear must not jingle, a twig on the ground must not snap, otherwise you are discovered.

In this case the advantage is on no one's side. You must try not to be heard by your opponent; the opponent cannot see you, only hear you.

Modifiers

In your favor are ambient noise, wind, rustling or a guard's loud snoring; against you are silence, twigs on the ground, a creaky floor and so on.

You move unseen and unheard

Advantage +5 to Perception

The hardest situation within Stealth is when you have to hide and move at the same time. You move quietly within the opponent's field of view, and yet they neither glimpse nor hear you.

The advantage is on the side of the observer (victim), because they can hear or glimpse you.

Modifiers

You can gain an advantage if there is noise around and the terrain is confusing. Conversely, the observer has an advantage if the terrain is open and it is quiet around, or if the floor creaks or you might step on a dry branch.

Checking success = contest roll

If you want to surprise someone, slip past them right before their eyes or hide from them, you must first outwit their senses. You therefore roll Stealth and your opponent rolls Perception.

You must also take into account modifiers for the conditions in which you attempt stealth (hiding, quiet movement, sneaking movement). The GM decides on them.

A small advantage means a +2 bonus, a considerable one +5. Advantages combine, for example:

If you move by sneaking or quiet movement, you cover at most 1 meter per round and tire quickly (unless you have practice in Stealth).