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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9242392" data-attributes="member: 177">Great questions.The players spent some of their build resources on having that ability.&nbsp; Sometimes, it should actually just work, you know?&nbsp; So, why put the net there at all?1) Because you don't know that the characters with the higher Passive Perception will be the first ones in the room.2) To make it sometimes worth the effort for the players who made those build choices.Not long ago, I was playing a gnome battlesmith artificer, with a Passive Perception of 16, Passive Investigation of 24.&nbsp; The guy was freakin' Sherlock Holmes.&nbsp; No clue went unfound, no trap undiscovered.&nbsp; The GM was fine with it, it was a shtick he could play to - it allowed us to fast forward past &quot;what do you know?&quot; which isn't the interesting question anyway, and got us quickly to &quot;So, what are you going to do about it?&quot; which is a much more interesting question.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 9242392, member: 177"] Great questions. The players spent some of their build resources on having that ability. Sometimes, it should actually just work, you know? So, why put the net there at all? 1) Because you don't [I]know[/I] that the characters with the higher Passive Perception will be the first ones in the room. 2) To make it sometimes worth the effort for the players who made those build choices. Not long ago, I was playing a gnome battlesmith artificer, with a Passive Perception of 16, Passive Investigation of 24. The guy was freakin' Sherlock Holmes. No clue went unfound, no trap undiscovered. The GM was fine with it, it was a shtick he could play to - it allowed us to fast forward past "what do you know?" which isn't the interesting question anyway, and got us quickly to "So, what are you going to do about it?" which is a much more interesting question. [/QUOTE]

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