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<blockquote data-quote="Boylan" data-source="post: 7894744" data-attributes="member: 7020023"><p>I had a lot of trouble with the Alert feat myself. All the doors in dungeon of the mad mage can be seen with a 20 score in perception which he has as his passive score. Being frustrated, I didn't want to just give it to them so I switched the roll to a investigation roll to find secret doors. I realized he couldn't be surprised so he can react normally during a surprise round and that's okay. I pass him a note if he can sense something and leave it to him to tell the party he hears something, but that may cause him to be distracted. So far all the encounters are with intelligent opponents, so most have snuck around to attack the side or the back of the party. Once I had an assassin attack him and another at the back while mages attack the front. The assassins sneaking score, so long as it exceeds his 20 passive threshold, the assassin was effective, but the theif with the alert feat was able to counter with an attack before the assassin was able to go invisible again with a held action. I've not ruled on whether a sneak attack on him deals lesser damage off the sneak attacks extra dice yet. I'll deal with that when it happens. Likely, I will rule it to be halved.</p><p>Another character has observant feat with a passive score of 17 in both investigation and perception which makes it very difficult to challenge them. I don't know why people need that much advantage. It breaks the game, but I will work through it and allow it to make some scenarios too easy. "That which is given too easily isn't as appreciated" and denies them fun of overcoming the adversity, I think. January 15, 2020. TTN.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boylan, post: 7894744, member: 7020023"] I had a lot of trouble with the Alert feat myself. All the doors in dungeon of the mad mage can be seen with a 20 score in perception which he has as his passive score. Being frustrated, I didn't want to just give it to them so I switched the roll to a investigation roll to find secret doors. I realized he couldn't be surprised so he can react normally during a surprise round and that's okay. I pass him a note if he can sense something and leave it to him to tell the party he hears something, but that may cause him to be distracted. So far all the encounters are with intelligent opponents, so most have snuck around to attack the side or the back of the party. Once I had an assassin attack him and another at the back while mages attack the front. The assassins sneaking score, so long as it exceeds his 20 passive threshold, the assassin was effective, but the theif with the alert feat was able to counter with an attack before the assassin was able to go invisible again with a held action. I've not ruled on whether a sneak attack on him deals lesser damage off the sneak attacks extra dice yet. I'll deal with that when it happens. Likely, I will rule it to be halved. Another character has observant feat with a passive score of 17 in both investigation and perception which makes it very difficult to challenge them. I don't know why people need that much advantage. It breaks the game, but I will work through it and allow it to make some scenarios too easy. "That which is given too easily isn't as appreciated" and denies them fun of overcoming the adversity, I think. January 15, 2020. TTN. [/QUOTE]
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