Quote Originally Posted by Kurald Galain View Post
It's easy to make up an extreme situation that supports your argument. However, to prevent them from becoming overly verbose, rules should be written for the common case, not for unlikely hypotheticals.

In other words, it's fine and realistic for the party member with Spot 3 to see the foe with a hide check of 15 because his fellow party member with Spot 7 (passive 17) points that out to him.
It's not a very unrealistic example--I've seen plenty of characters neglecting spot, while one or two party members put in max ranks and whatever else they can.

I think that it might make sense to give one PC a bonus (like, +10) to the check if another passed it. That would be "pointing the hidden foe out". It's still entirely possible for an unperceptive person to miss a well-hidden foe even after having them pointed out.