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I understand your concerns. But then I think, the advantage/disadvantage part is important: In most circumstances, a creature just passing by has disadvantage on passive perception. So it is effectively 5+modifiers. 0+modifiers would be too low to do anything. Then if you are very highly...

I actually like the static DC to be invisible. I use passive perception to notice strange sounds. So while you don't automatically see something, you get a hint to actually search actively. This is how I used passive investigation in 5.14. (Was important for me, with a player taking the...

Note the last check you made as per the rules. If you need to change position to not be found, (which happens all the time in movies), make a check to move to a new cover when the guard is distracted (maybe a distraction you create).

I still think the action should only be required if you try to move from cover to cover or to set an ambush.

"The DM decides when the situation is appropriate to hide and when to call for a stealth check." Don't thank me for that.

No. Never were. There just was a thread not long ago confusing ranged weapon (category) with range weapon (property).

Of course, you are correct. Wanted to add that but forgot. One funny thing about darts is that they are finesse weapons. Which is not needed for rogues using darts, which is not for using dexterity because they are ranged weapons anyway. No, their finesse property allows them to be used with str!

That does not sound like a fix at all...

A thrown weapon is a melee weapon because it is in the melee weapon table. Has been the case for 10 years now.

We have encounter distance and search DCs. And we have advantage/disadvantage for travelling pace. So while the rules you seek are missing, tgere are at least some rules that might help decide how tongenerally handle it.

Same goes for all smites. I think that was intentional.

3/4 is within line of sight... Yes. Seems like a good idea. Usually I use it that way more or less. And if you do, that takes an action. As you have to wait for the right circumstance. I don't let characters or enemies hidden all the time and I let them reroll when circumstances change.

I think camouflaged should be mentioned somewhere explicitely. Would also help with creatures like twig blights or gargoyles. Just something like: or if you are somehow camouflaged to blend in with your surrounding.

This is actually debatable. If you lose it immediately, you can't actually use it in combat. Maybe "at the end of the turn". But lets just say: we mostly agree, but need to talk about the exact details later. ;)

I agree. As I said above, the invisibility spell needs a line that says you are translucent. But I still think most people won't have any issues with the rules. You need to take special care to notice that the spell does not make you translucent.

I can agree to those statements. 2014 has more hints why PHB rules are not used (see bugbear stat block).

Which is why I already admitted that you are technically correct.

Yoi are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. I think in this case, the DM's guide rules: Use benevolvent interpretaion of rules and rules are no physics trump being technically correct here.

Mostly agree. I think one confusion lies in the invisibility spell which lacks a line that says: yoi are translucient and can't be found without special vision.

Sorry. This is getting uglier and uglier. That goes into the territory of just reskinning without any thought to the player rules (I can get behind a d10 longsword when used one handed (flex mastery), even behind a 2d10 longsword) Lacking a different stat block, I want to modify my hobgoblins...