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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 8545509" data-attributes="member: 97077">The rules say if the PCs turn their attention to certain tasks other than keeping watch for danger, their passive Perception doesn't apply. That naturally plays into surprise and hiding. If the DM decides that a group check is necessarily using passive checks instead of regular ability checks, it works there, too. This all works together. I wouldn't go so far to say it's a well-designed system as a whole, but at least this section is pretty tight. I'm not sure why you find it necessary to try to carve out traveling as if it's this separate thing except that perhaps you just don't like it, as you stated.You keep quoting JC as well as if the guy is somehow infallible and not just another DM who was shooting from the hip on a podcast. The rules say what they say and that is that passive Perception is on most of the time, until it's not and when that is. Play how you like, but understand when you ignore that, you make Perception more powerful than may be intended.</blockquote>