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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 7331278" data-attributes="member: 6818233">The use of the word Passive for this is one of those poor word choices they made when writing 5E. It implies that the character is not doing anything at all and a high enough score means that something simply happens without the character doing anything at all, yet the example in the PHB shows the character doing actively doing something, something that is so mundane that a dice roll is not needed to succeed. I know it does not work exactly the same as Take 10 from 3E, but it is similar enough that I still think of it that way.Anyway, here is a totally different example for you, for passive versus active. Your character is standing guard duty on the perimeter of a camp. You are watching outward for any signs of anything approaching. Your passive perception tells you that is a breeze starts blowing on you from behind. Your active perception roll for guarding tells you that you see no leaves or grass moving in any breeze in front of you. Another active roll successfully tells you there is faint noise behind you that the default 10+modifiers for passive did not alert you to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 7331278, member: 6818233"] The use of the word Passive for this is one of those poor word choices they made when writing 5E. It implies that the character is not doing anything at all and a high enough score means that something simply happens without the character doing anything at all, yet the example in the PHB shows the character doing actively doing something, something that is so mundane that a dice roll is not needed to succeed. I know it does not work exactly the same as Take 10 from 3E, but it is similar enough that I still think of it that way. Anyway, here is a totally different example for you, for passive versus active. Your character is standing guard duty on the perimeter of a camp. You are watching outward for any signs of anything approaching. Your passive perception tells you that is a breeze starts blowing on you from behind. Your active perception roll for guarding tells you that you see no leaves or grass moving in any breeze in front of you. Another active roll successfully tells you there is faint noise behind you that the default 10+modifiers for passive did not alert you to. [/QUOTE]

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