Hi. I just started using BG2 and noticed that there are categories for "Hiding in shadows," and "Moving silently." In BG/TOSC there was only "Hide in shadows." WHat's the difference between the categories, besides the obvious? The rule book just parrots back the title of the abilities- "Moving silently allows your character to move without being heard," and so on.

If I were playing a thief, how should points be distributed between these categories, for example?

thanks,

Hide in shadows is tops

Move quietly...I think there's a bug, I had an assassin with massive hide and little move quietly, almost nevre gets caught...definately buggy there somewhere...

You only need those skills if you like to backstab. I, personaly beeing a swashbuckler lover, don't need those two skills. So I never put points there.

I always raise both at the same time.

Your chance to Stealth depends on the average of your HiS and MS skillpoints.

Oh, okay. Thank you. They just had to make it harder to not get caught, didn't they?

Well, you can ignore one of them and pump points into the other. So long as your average is around 75%, your chance to stealth is pretty good.

So in theory, to get a 75% average, you can either have,

HiS: 150
MS : 0

HiS: 75
MS : 75

HiS: 0
MS : 150

My solo Assassin is currently,

HiS: 125
MS : 125