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<blockquote data-quote="Benji" data-source="post: 7758562" data-attributes="member: 6793743"><p>Mainly through observation of players. They value those distinctions, so I play to them. I'd say that there probably isn't any support for it in the D&D rules - but also the rules as written get an effective challenge ratings very wrong, so I don't hold that much stock in them -that's sort of another point we so clearly differ on, I'm not sure I want to get into because it belabours worthwhile discussion. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I tend to find that describing it differently depending on different passive skills tends to stop information required for educated action hiding behind any kind of role or set of prescriptive instruction set. That way I'm heightening agency. In my mind anyway.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sorry, didn't make myself clear. How would this play out to your mind if the characters are setting watch in a wood at night? what stages do they get perception, passive perception and nothing? Is passive in your game 'I'm now keeping watch' or does that count as a proper-full blooded check if enemies approach? What about to spot the fact that someone slipped poison into their drink at a banquet, when would that check happen? I include these two because I think discussion of perception in a dungeon environment is a bit of a weird bottle environment. I think in a dungeon, the rulings are clearer. It's outside of that environment that I think the discussion of perception in play becomes more fruitful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benji, post: 7758562, member: 6793743"] Mainly through observation of players. They value those distinctions, so I play to them. I'd say that there probably isn't any support for it in the D&D rules - but also the rules as written get an effective challenge ratings very wrong, so I don't hold that much stock in them -that's sort of another point we so clearly differ on, I'm not sure I want to get into because it belabours worthwhile discussion. I tend to find that describing it differently depending on different passive skills tends to stop information required for educated action hiding behind any kind of role or set of prescriptive instruction set. That way I'm heightening agency. In my mind anyway. Sorry, didn't make myself clear. How would this play out to your mind if the characters are setting watch in a wood at night? what stages do they get perception, passive perception and nothing? Is passive in your game 'I'm now keeping watch' or does that count as a proper-full blooded check if enemies approach? What about to spot the fact that someone slipped poison into their drink at a banquet, when would that check happen? I include these two because I think discussion of perception in a dungeon environment is a bit of a weird bottle environment. I think in a dungeon, the rulings are clearer. It's outside of that environment that I think the discussion of perception in play becomes more fruitful. [/QUOTE]
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