Originally Posted by Flooter
When demonstrating the (heavy quotes) “Tactician” mode, a Larian dev with a gamepad cycles through the wheel of possible actions/bonus actions. If you pause while he’s scrolling past Hide, the explainer text says the cost is an action.

I'm glad it's not just my word for it any more grin

But I can confirm that I was playing on Normal and Hide was an action. I only managed one level of rogue so wasn't able to confirm I'd get cunning action hide at level 2, but it seems a reasonable bet.

"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"