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This is why I tend (in D&D 5e terms) to make group stealth checks group checks, not a number of individual rolls. One failure out of, say, five rolls, shouldn't mean the entire party fails.

Yup. Its made even worse in a lot of games because perception rolls are also individual, so in practice you're matching the worst stealth roll against the best perception roll in many cases.
 

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Yup. Its made even worse in a lot of games because perception rolls are also individual, so in practice you're matching the worst stealth roll against the best perception roll in many cases.
Which might sometimes match the fiction. (That doesn't mean it should be the default.)
 

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Which might sometimes match the fiction. (That doesn't mean it should be the default.)

I'm not actually sold it matches any fiction I'm familiar with--or even reality, far as that goes. You do get some difficulty changes as the numbers on both sides increase, but not as fast as separate rolls would tell you.
 

I'm not actually sold it matches any fiction I'm familiar with--or even reality, far as that goes. You do get some difficulty changes as the numbers on both sides increase, but not as fast as separate rolls would tell you.
Depends on the pacing, I think, and on what the PCs are doing (in the sense of how much they're really acting as a group). It seems to me very much like a special case, not the norm. I think I've had the PCs fail to surprise everyone in at least one circumstance where there was just one Passive Perception they didn't beat, but that was a circumstance where that entity would have warned everyone else there. That's not my usual approach, there's probably no single right or wrong way.
 

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I'm not actually sold it matches any fiction I'm familiar with--or even reality, far as that goes. You do get some difficulty changes as the numbers on both sides increase, but not as fast as separate rolls would tell you.
Party using Stealth roll as a group. Use the worst member's Stealth. Add assistance (typically something like +2) for each member in the group who could help that member be more stealthy.

Party they are sneaking past (guards, etc.) use either passive or active Perception, depending upon the circumstances, with assist bonuses for each member, then modified by factors like lighting, ambient noise, amount of cover. It's easier to sneak past a dining hall full of raucous Orks, than a few active guards.
 



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