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<blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6647222" data-attributes="member: 66434">What is your go to method for traps &amp; other hidden dangers? Do you ask for perception rolls thereby putting everyone on alert or something else? I like to give traps &amp; dangers a hide bonus instead of a flat DC. I don't mind using a passive score on one side of the equation but I don't like using static values vs. static values. If someone is waiting in ambush you don't use a flat DC, so I do the same for traps. Some of it seems a bit clumsy, but in that situation the player may have forgotten that hide is an action, or didn't want to use an action and essentially wanted to hide as a free action. Hiding is something you have to DO on purpose and thus it takes an action. Rogues of 2nd level or higher can hide as a bonus action, that's what makes them so good at it. Yep. So long as there is an ally adjacent to the target, sneak damage applies to both melee and ranged attacks. One of the reasons I am rather conservative in my stealth &amp; hiding adjudication is that sneak attack is already so powerful and easy to maintain on a consistent basis without having to be hidden at all that stacking advantage on most attacks on top of that makes rogues WAY too powerful. Especially when critical hit doubles sneak damage as well as weapon damage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExploderWizard, post: 6647222, member: 66434"] What is your go to method for traps & other hidden dangers? Do you ask for perception rolls thereby putting everyone on alert or something else? I like to give traps & dangers a hide bonus instead of a flat DC. I don't mind using a passive score on one side of the equation but I don't like using static values vs. static values. If someone is waiting in ambush you don't use a flat DC, so I do the same for traps. Some of it seems a bit clumsy, but in that situation the player may have forgotten that hide is an action, or didn't want to use an action and essentially wanted to hide as a free action. Hiding is something you have to DO on purpose and thus it takes an action. Rogues of 2nd level or higher can hide as a bonus action, that's what makes them so good at it. Yep. So long as there is an ally adjacent to the target, sneak damage applies to both melee and ranged attacks. One of the reasons I am rather conservative in my stealth & hiding adjudication is that sneak attack is already so powerful and easy to maintain on a consistent basis without having to be hidden at all that stacking advantage on most attacks on top of that makes rogues WAY too powerful. Especially when critical hit doubles sneak damage as well as weapon damage. [/QUOTE]

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