Spring Attack and Hide in Plain Sight

[BiggDawg]

If someone with Hide in Plain Sight also has Spring Attack can they use Spring Attack to move up to someone then attack and following that use their remaining movement to Hide in Plain Sight and disappear (given they succeed on the opposed Stealth/Perception test and they are in dim light conditions)?

Under the Stealth section it says that you cannot use Stealth while attacking, charging or running. However there is a special section for Sniping but that is only for ranged attacks.

Is this possible under the rules? Should I maybe use the sniping rules for the spring attack if it is possible? Or is this RAW and RAI and just let it roll.

For context this is for some assassins I am designing to send against a party of 8th level characters (that are probably more like 10th level in power).

[james maissen]

BiggDawg98 wrote:

If someone with Hide in Plain Sight also has Spring Attack can they use Spring Attack to move up to someone then attack and following that use their remaining movement to Hide in Plain Sight and disappear (given they succeed on the opposed Stealth/Perception test and they are in dim light conditions)?

Is this possible under the rules?

Yes. They would become observed when they attack, and then potentially become unobserved after they leave the square from which they made their attack.

If other PCs threaten that square then they would get AOOs on the assassin.

Otherwise yeah, it can hurt.

Be very careful that you adjudicate everything correctly here.

-James