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Passive perception is still a stealth check, it's just not rolled. In both passive and active situations, perception still controls the...

Unless this was changed for 2024, you absolutely can fail a stealth check. For 2014, Dex (stealth) checks setting the DC for Wis...

I see other people have already pointed this out, so I apologise if this feels like dogpiling, but this is misrepresenting what...

I actually didn't know that. I would not allow that at my table. I wonder if @Lanefan rules that one's best attempt is done within 6...

Rounds were 1 minute back then, so probably it takes longer. I agree. I'd just make it longer and if you want to rush it, you get...

I think it's a false agenda. The characters' lives can't be boring if you are playing the game, even if there are boring bits in it...

I mean, this whole "not make the characters' lives boring" is a Red Herring. Even if the characters are bored out of their minds here...

It takes less than 6 seconds. RAW says you can attempt to open a lock on your turn during combat. Success and it opens. There is no...

There's a few different directions but probably not mutually exclusive directions. Kind of, but I think you have that backwards. If I...

Breaking a belief is as much a faithful portrayal of the PC as keeping it is. People are people. We have beliefs. Some of them we...

Good! It’s a matter of opinion is a good starting point. So? Does that justify ignoring the 2am version vs the 5pm version vs the...

I had this discussion with @pemerton. Stealth isn't what dictates much of anything. Perception is. You literally cannot fail a...

Except that I do have an agenda of not making the characters'(and players') lives boring, which can be done in conjunction with fidelity...

Taking the what should be the equally true contrapositive makes it more clear I think. ‘If you use fail forward you should have an...