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<blockquote data-quote="robus" data-source="post: 7330217" data-attributes="member: 6801558">You raise an excellent point and it speaks to the difference between PCs and NPCs. With PCs, as DM you’re wanting to give their players an interesting world with which to interact so dropping hints baes on passive perception is like giving the players brains bits of mind candy - it gives them stuff to chew on and react to.For NPCs the DM already knows the entire situation so then it’s a matter of how you want the encounter to go. Is this party of orcs an encounter that will provide some key information to the party? Then sure the orcs will investigate further and mostly like launch an attack.If this is a random encounter and the PCs barely fail their stealth check then i might have one of the orcs come into the wood looking for something only to be called back to the road right as he’s on top of a sweating PC (for a bit of a close call)If the PCs fail their stealth badly, then sure the Orcs investigate and attack. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The problem for the DM is you don’t want to play too much by yourself, you roll to resolve uncertainty due to player actions, but they generally take the lead after you set the encounter in motion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="robus, post: 7330217, member: 6801558"] You raise an excellent point and it speaks to the difference between PCs and NPCs. With PCs, as DM you’re wanting to give their players an interesting world with which to interact so dropping hints baes on passive perception is like giving the players brains bits of mind candy - it gives them stuff to chew on and react to. For NPCs the DM already knows the entire situation so then it’s a matter of how you want the encounter to go. Is this party of orcs an encounter that will provide some key information to the party? Then sure the orcs will investigate further and mostly like launch an attack. If this is a random encounter and the PCs barely fail their stealth check then i might have one of the orcs come into the wood looking for something only to be called back to the road right as he’s on top of a sweating PC (for a bit of a close call) If the PCs fail their stealth badly, then sure the Orcs investigate and attack. :) The problem for the DM is you don’t want to play too much by yourself, you roll to resolve uncertainty due to player actions, but they generally take the lead after you set the encounter in motion. [/QUOTE]

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