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From: dbuehrer@****.org (David Buehrer)
Subject: Re: Stealth
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:40:26 -0600 (MDT)
Terry L. Amburgey wrote:
|
|At 08:45 AM 9/25/96 -0600, David wrote:
|[snip]
|>|Our GM uses a variation of #1: Character rolls stealth against TN=NPC's
|>|perception, NPC rolls perception against TN=character's stealth skill.
|>
|>That's the one I've been using. But the problem is that
|>whoever has the highest skill wins 99% of the time, and if
|>you start factoring in perception modifiers for the
|>perciever then the guy hiding will never be found.
|
|Heh. Most of the time my pc has the higher skill/attribute so that's
|a side effect I don't mind :)

So says the munchkin ;)

|BTW my stealthy physad isn't very stealthy
|when it comes to astral perception; anyone got any creative ideas on
|how to be sneaky versus astral observers? Terry

Ask a spirit or elemental to wrap its astral form around
you to disguise yourself as such when viewed from astral
space.

Wear a FAB filled suit.

Travel underground.

-David

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