Detecting Hidden

The skill Detecting Hidden is used both passively and actively to detect hidden boxes, hidden traps, and hidden people.

• Finding Hidden People
  • The radius of detection is based on your “Detect Hidden” skill.
  • Your chances of finding a hidden player depend on the relationship between your Detect Hidden skill and their Hiding skill. You can expect to be totally unable to find a grandmaster hider if you are just a neophyte in the skill.
  • House owners are able to instantly reveal anyone hidden in their house, regardless of skill level, on the grounds that they know their house better than any stranger. You cannot gain skill by using Detect Hidden inside your own house.
  • Having a high Detect Hidden skill helps to automatically reveal people that stealth in your vicinity; The passive Detect Hidden range against a character using Stealth is a 4 tile radius.
  • The Detect Hidden skill also helps you when you are using the Tracking skill and when you use the Reveal spell.
  • All human characters have Jack of all Trades of 20 Detect Hidden
  • All elven characters have a racial bonus increased chance to passively Detect Hidden.
  • Passive Detect Hidden is not active in “Abyss” rulesets.
  • Finding Hidden Containers

• The training aid ‘Crystal Ball of Knowledge’ (obtained from Ortlem the Mystic’s quest) is particularly useful, the difficulty of the skill being related to the distance from the target. It is possible to use the crystal ball’s messages in a way similar to the ‘hotter/colder’ children’s game.

• Dungeon Traps
  • Trapped Containers
  • Spawning or Static Boxes, Chests, Crates, Barrels and Kegs are almost always trapped. Most will have all three of the trap types.
  • Crafted, lockable containers can be trapped by a tinker. These include
    • Wooden box
    • All 3 sizes of crate
    • Wooden chest
    • Plain wooden chest
    • Ornate wooden chest
    • Gilded wooden chest
    • Wooden footlocker
    • Finished wooden chest
    • To see if a container is trapped place it on the floor and use the Detect Hidden skill on the container or on the floor next to it. If the container is trapped and the skill is successful the word “[trapped]” will appear over it.
    • Tip: Use Detect Hidden several times on a container to really make sure it is not trapped, you may miss the trap in the first tries.

Training

0 - 30:	Purchase training from a thief guildmaster.
30 - 80:	Find the thief's hideout in the Alexandria sewers and inspect the remove trap training box on the table.
90 - 100:	Go play hide and seek in the woods with everyone training Hiding.