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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9076948" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>If they are actively focusing on listening to the conversation and not specifically parsing out an element of the scents given off by the pie around them that sounds like 5e RAW suggests a possible check roll for the active perception and possible passive check for adjudicating the smell.</p><p></p><p>So to be clear, not an easy smell to identify, which would be DC 10 or a very easy DC 5 per the DMG page 238 chart, but moderately hard to identify DC 15. So a decent chance many D&D PCs would not identify it. If the almond smell from the pie right next to them was easy to smell, a character with a 10 wisdom and untrained in perception would notice passively.</p><p></p><p>Even with a roll the PC with a passive perception of 14 and so a +4 wisdom perception bonus will not smell the moderately difficult to detect almond smell from the warm pie right next to them 50% of the time.</p><p></p><p>I am copacetic with passive perception and intuition being quick at the table resolution and a decent baseline for things the PC is not actively doing while if they make a specific action to focus on an event they can be better than that baseline with PCs rolling dice to determine the action they have actively engaged with.</p><p></p><p>However since noticing the pie smell is automatic, the DM mentions the warm pie and it is up to the player to think of trying to determine whether there is an almond smell from the pie they now know about with a melange of minor flavor smells that did not draw their attention by itself. If they are thinking about cyanide and not easy to smell scent of almonds they might think to focus on the smell of the pie to see if there is a faint odor of almonds. Otherwise, they did not notice the moderately difficult to smell almond scent and the game goes on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9076948, member: 2209"] If they are actively focusing on listening to the conversation and not specifically parsing out an element of the scents given off by the pie around them that sounds like 5e RAW suggests a possible check roll for the active perception and possible passive check for adjudicating the smell. So to be clear, not an easy smell to identify, which would be DC 10 or a very easy DC 5 per the DMG page 238 chart, but moderately hard to identify DC 15. So a decent chance many D&D PCs would not identify it. If the almond smell from the pie right next to them was easy to smell, a character with a 10 wisdom and untrained in perception would notice passively. Even with a roll the PC with a passive perception of 14 and so a +4 wisdom perception bonus will not smell the moderately difficult to detect almond smell from the warm pie right next to them 50% of the time. I am copacetic with passive perception and intuition being quick at the table resolution and a decent baseline for things the PC is not actively doing while if they make a specific action to focus on an event they can be better than that baseline with PCs rolling dice to determine the action they have actively engaged with. However since noticing the pie smell is automatic, the DM mentions the warm pie and it is up to the player to think of trying to determine whether there is an almond smell from the pie they now know about with a melange of minor flavor smells that did not draw their attention by itself. If they are thinking about cyanide and not easy to smell scent of almonds they might think to focus on the smell of the pie to see if there is a faint odor of almonds. Otherwise, they did not notice the moderately difficult to smell almond scent and the game goes on. [/QUOTE]
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