I have a question about the Magic of Incarnum splat book. I am running a PF game with the complete books, psionics, and Incarnum as available options for the PCs. One of my players has an optimized stealth character. I know he has some Totemist levels, and he is headed to the Umbral Disciple (cool class concept btw). My problem is with one of the class features and its application in game.
"Embrace of Shadow": Basically is gives you concealment 10% and you get another 10% per point of essentia you invest in it. If the concealment bonus is 20% or higher it gives you the hide in plain sight ability. Unfortunately, it is worded in a way that has me a bit vexed.
Ok as I read it, the ability gives you Hide in plain sight, which means you can perform a hide check while being observed, but still need some form of cover. The way the pc reads it and intends to use it is that the 20% concealment IS the cover and he can hide in plain sight anywhere, including in between spring attacks.
Also, if he is indeed constantly able to use hide even without cover other than the shadows of that ability, when he spring attacks someone, he can hide as part of his move action. Not sure if the sniping rules would apply in this case, but he would effectively be invisible allowing sneak attacks and making him a very hard target seeing as you'd need to spot him to target him with any spell/effect/ or attack.
Any help with this would be appreciated.