Prowling

The Skill of Prowling allows a player to move and operate in the vicinity of others without being noticed and observed. Prowling level is dependent upon your Perception (PE).

Training

• Prowling Apprentice: Chance of success is unaffected by lighting, and noise penalties are halved
  • Trainer: Wise Women
  • Trainer: Thieves (if member of the The Thieves Underground)
  • Trainer: Theo Brightstart in Ashbury
  • Trainer: Vollinger in Dernholm (until he becomes a follower)

• Prowling Expert: The character can walk while Prowling. Also the chance of success is unaffected by surrounding objects
  • Trainer: Elite Bow Captains in Caladon and Dernholm
  • Trainer: Mr. Black of The Thieves Underground in Tarant
  • Trainer: Mr. Razzia of The Thieves Underground in Caladon

• Prowling Master: The Character can run while Prowling. Also they can engage in ranged combat while remaining stealthed.
  • Trainer: Albert Leeks in Caladon
  • Quest: Find the Master of Prowling

Uses

• General travel around hostile characters and/or creatures without being attacked
• Considerable damage bonus to Backstab
• Increased success to Pick Pocket
• Allows closer safe distances from lock owners when using Pick Locks and Unlocking Cantrip
• Can become (and/or stay) undetectable during ranged attacks

Modifiers to Prowling

• Items:
  • Oiled Thieves Leather: gives +1/20
  • Ring of Concealment: gives +2/20
  • Ring of Silence(1): gives +2/20 (magick)
  • Ring of Silence(2): gives +2/20
  • Small Robe of the Chameleon: gives +5/20 (magick, and listed as +2)
  • Shadowing Robes (Medium): gives +5/20 (magick, and listed as +2)
  • Creep Armor, Small: gives +5/20 (magick, and listed as +2)

• Blessings:
  • Moorindal's Blessing: gives +4/20

• Races:
  • Halflings: gives +2/20
  • Half-ogres: removes -2/20

• Backgrounds:
  • Playing as a Feral Child: gives +1/20

Mechanics

• A player can determine if they are detected by any NPC or not by hovering the cursor over them
• Success is modified by:
  • Prowling level
  • The perception of others around you
  • The proximity of others around you
  • Direct line of sight between you and others
  • Lighting
  • Noise (NP)

Notes

• Noise
  • Any gear (particularly metal) with a listed -NP value makes you more noisy
  • Some gear has a listed +NP value and thus reduces your noise level
  • Weapons generally range from quiet to very loud
• Invisibility
  • While there is some overlap between Prowling and Invisibility, Invisibility won't prevent a mark from becoming hostile
  • Invisibility CAN help a hostile mark from attacking the player, however