Hipsing????

Trogdorbob · Post by **Trogdorbob** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:51 pm

As I like to say " never a dull moment when you could be learning something" so to that I ask, " What is a 'hipsing' character?"

Post by **Mr. O'Dearly** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:55 pm

H-ide
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P-lain
S-ight
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Means you hide while being observed. Currently an ability only given on the first lvl of Shadowdancer. Signs of possible implementation in assasin class in the future as well.

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:56 pm

It sounds fun at first.

But the game is better without it.

kingfatzo · Post by **kingfatzo** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:58 pm

This might be in previous posts and/or on the wiki, but its easier to respond rather than dig up old links

....by the way the search feature above is your friend.

..anyway to awnser your question:

HIPS stands for Hide in Plain sight ...it is a SD (shadowdancer) ability where a character can literally hide from other players and monsters (PC's and NPC's) unless you have a high spot check to counter their hide abilities.

Often when people complain about HIPS'ers they are refered to as "cheese builds" because to get SD you have to multiclass, and often it is the minimal levels allowed of SD with the rest focused in another class.... Common examples would be --

monk/rouge/SD

or any mixmatch of that... monk/SD or rouge/SD ... you even see the infamous "cheese mages" that are Wizard/SD usually.....

kingfatzo · Post by **kingfatzo** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:59 pm

wow in the time i typed that above, 2 ppl responded. LOL

Trogdorbob · Post by **Trogdorbob** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:04 pm

Thanks for the replies and I did do the search and I found out how to stopa hips toon but I still never really got to see the definition of what one is. SO thanks to you guys for answering the post I know what it is. Your are right king.. it is easier to post than to scrounge for the answer though there is some satisfaction in getting your own answers. MMMMMM coffeeeeeeeeee.

algol333 · Post by **algol333** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:24 pm

cheese mages r people too...having played one for awhile and had alot of fun with it i found it made lvling preepic much easier evasion with a wizard is very nice... however i decided to ditch the toon in the 30s because DC on spells were not sufficient BTW only been playing NWN for about 3 months used to play pen and paper back in the 2nd edition days... so for me the cheese mage was fun untill i realized he was too weak<(being able to only take one lvl of SD wouldve helped) but i enjoy the lvl requirements of this server> anyhow just my 1.5 cents sorry for the runon sentences..bad habit of mine..
BTW love this server except for the fact i can accomplish nothing with myself except playing NS4 but thats ok for now:)

Trogdorbob · Post by **Trogdorbob** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:29 pm

Man I still love playing pen and paper 2nd edition. lol that was great. Nothing wrong with that.

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Wed May 17, 2006 8:20 pm

Spell DC's always crap out around 30... Except for spells vs reflex maybe.

Blystos Re · Post by **Blystos Re** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:52 pm

Does True Seeing allow you to see HIPSing characters, or has that been adapted? I've just started using it with my cleric, so I haven't seen for myself yet.

Oh, and...Hi...

Post by **Sparky** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:55 pm

Neversummer True Sight grants the user See Invisibility and +20 to Spot checks.