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Originally Posted by Kromm
In actual play, the way it works is that you declare what you're doing to be sneaky and then roll normally for that: NPC's Vision or Hearing vs. your Stealth, his Vision at -10 because you're 100 yards away and not in plain sight, his own Observation vs. your Camouflage because you're in the bushes, or whatever. If you're not detected, go ahead and use Observation.
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For a real-life example, when I was covering the city council for a newspaper in Kansas, the council would sometimes go into closed door session. The hall outside was narrow and doubled as a waiting area for the planning office, with two modestly-comfortable chairs just outside the door. In game terms, I used Acting to seem to be cat-napping in one of the chairs (not unexpected, it was mid-day and often fairly warm) and then Observation to pick up pieces of the conversation behind the door.