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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9075226" data-attributes="member: 6779196">It’s not totally obvious. “I’m rolling a perception check” doesn’t tell me what the player is trying to accomplish or what the character is doing to try to accomplish it, it only tells me they think their training in perception is relevant to their chances of success. What I would do is tell them that; something along the lines of, “I’m hearing that you want to use your character’s training in perception to spot, hear, or otherwise detect the presence of something. What is it that you’re trying to find, and what does your character do to try and find it?If there’s a clear audio cue they could hear, that should have been part of my description of the environment in the first place. Maybe contingent on a successful passive Wisdom (Perception) check, if hearing it would be particularly difficult, such that it would only be noticed by someone who is continually engaged in watching/listening.It’s quite organic, it’s just a different mindset than a lot of people have been trained to use when playing D&D.</blockquote>