Ninja Skills
Ninja skills allow you to operate stealthily.
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Stealth & Awareness
Stealth and awareness are inseperable. Awareness skills allow you to observe things and avoid being observed. Without awareness, your you have no chance to apply skills to problems you are oblivious to. You must be able to listen to yourself to sneak and hear others to know if you may have been heard. You can better hide if you are able to see your potential observers.
Messing Up & Being Discovered
When sneaking around you may or may not hear or see a response that indicates if you have been detected. When you fail to perceive anything, you doun’t know if it means that nothing is there, your chance is slim or your luck is lousy.
Group Chances: When several people are listening to the same thing, the Sim can make a single chance roll and use it for all the listeners’ risks.
Both hiding and sneaking involve tradeoffs with spotting and listening.
Hiding vs Spotting
There are two kinds of concealment: Partial and total.
With partial concealment between 1 and 99%, the more concealed you are the less you can see and the harder spotting becomes.
With total concealment, you cannot see or be seen, and spotting becomes impossible.
Being well camouflaged or shadowed can allow you to be less covered but still concealed, giving you better seeing and spotting chances.
Moving vs Spotting
Moving around makes it harder to spot someone else's stealthy movement.
Sneaking vs Listening
Moving around makes noise and interferes with listening, so quiet sneaking helps and stopping altogether provides the best hearing.
Hiding vs Sneaking
Crawling prone gives you the lowest profile against being spotted but it usually makes more noise than crouching where only your careful footsteps touch the ground.
Links
http://www.entertheninja.com/ninja_fact/stealth.php
Silly Ninja Links
http://www.7secondsoflove.com/ninja/
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