[top]Sleight of Hand (Dex; Trained Only; Armor Check Penalty)

[top]Check
A DC 10 Sleight of Hand check lets you palm a coin-sized, unattended object. Performing a minor feat of legerdemain, such as making a coin disappear, also has a DC of 10 unless an observer is determined to note where the item went.
When you use this skill under close observation, your skill check is opposed by the observer?s Spot check. The observer?s success doesn?t prevent you from performing the action, just from doing it unnoticed.
You can hide a small object (including a light weapon or an easily concealed ranged weapon, such as a dart, sling, or hand crossbow) on your body. Your Sleight of Hand check is opposed by the Spot check of anyone observing you or the Search check of anyone frisking you. In the latter case, the searcher gains a +4 bonus on the Search check, since it?s generally easier to find such an object than to hide it. A dagger is easier to hide than most light weapons, and grants you a +2 bonus on your Sleight of Hand check to conceal it. An extraordinarily small object, such as a coin, shuriken, or ring, grants you a +4 bonus on your Sleight of Hand check to conceal it, and heavy or baggy clothing (such as a cloak) grants you a +2 bonus on the check.
Drawing a hidden weapon is a standard action and doesn?t provoke an attack of opportunity.
If you try to take something from another creature, you must make a DC 20 Sleight of Hand check to obtain it. The opponent makes a Spot check to detect the attempt, opposed by the same Sleight of Hand check result you achieved when you tried to grab the item. An opponent who succeeds on this check notices the attempt, regardless of whether you got the item.
You can also use Sleight of Hand to entertain an audience as though you were using the Perform skill. In such a case, your ?act? encompasses elements of legerdemain, juggling, and the like.
Sleight of Hand DCTask
10Palm a coin-sized object, make a coin disappear
20Lift a small object from a person
50Lift a sheathed weapon from another creature and hide it on the character?s person, if the weapon is no more than one size category larger than the character?s own size.
80Make an adjacent, willing creature or object of the character?s size or smaller ?disappear? while in plain view. In fact, the willing creature or object is displaced up to 10 feet away?make a separate Hide check to determine how well the ?disappeared? creature or object is hidden.
[top]Epic Check
You can lift another?s weapon and perform major feats of legerdemain. (See table.)
[top]Action
Any Sleight of Hand check normally is a standard action. However, you may perform a Sleight of Hand check as a free action by taking a ?20 penalty on the check.
[top]Try Again
Yes, but after an initial failure, a second Sleight of Hand attempt against the same target (or while you are being watched by the same observer who noticed your previous attempt) increases the DC for the task by 10.
[top]Special
If you have the Deft Hands feat, you get a +2 bonus on Sleight of Hand checks.
[top]Synergy
If you have 5 or more ranks in Bluff, you get a +2 bonus on Sleight of Hand checks.
[top]Untrained
An untrained Sleight of Hand check is simply a Dexterity check. Without actual training, you can?t succeed on any Sleight of Hand check with a DC higher than 10, except for hiding an object on your body.

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