spot vs. listen

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Since Hide and Move Silently are combined as one action, does this mean
that training in both Spot and Listen is useless? It seems like it might
be, since if a character is using his hide skill, he is also necessarily
using his move silently skill, and vice versa. So you'd only have to do
a Spot or Listen check, but never both. Or am I missing something?

 

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On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:33:53 -0500, John Salerno
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> Since Hide and Move Silently are combined as one action, does this mean
> that training in both Spot and Listen is useless? It seems like it might
> be, since if a character is using his hide skill, he is also necessarily
> using his move silently skill, and vice versa. So you'd only have to do
> a Spot or Listen check, but never both. Or am I missing something?

You only need one to see (or hear) someone, but it's not totally
useless to have both, because it can give you a better chance of
detecting someone. For example, if your adversary had a Hide of 80
and a Move Silently of 50, it'd be hard to see him if you only had
Spot 50. However, if you also had Listen 50, you could catch him.

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Alec Usticke wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:33:53 -0500, John Salerno
> <johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in Message-ID
> <77adnVL1R56uVybcRVn-tA@rcn.net>:
>
>
>>Since Hide and Move Silently are combined as one action, does this mean
>>that training in both Spot and Listen is useless? It seems like it might
>>be, since if a character is using his hide skill, he is also necessarily
>>using his move silently skill, and vice versa. So you'd only have to do
>>a Spot or Listen check, but never both. Or am I missing something?
>
>
> You only need one to see (or hear) someone, but it's not totally
> useless to have both, because it can give you a better chance of
> detecting someone. For example, if your adversary had a Hide of 80
> and a Move Silently of 50, it'd be hard to see him if you only had
> Spot 50. However, if you also had Listen 50, you could catch him.
>

Well that makes sense! I think I'm just going to alternate between hide,
listen, and move every few levels, just to cover them all. Spot isn't
even a class skill for a monk, so I don't know if I want to use 2 points
on it anyway.