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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 2569795" data-attributes="member: 18701">Don't ask the players to roll those checks...roll them yourself secretely. If you ask them to roll, they know something is up and will be on their toes. If you just roll secretely then they'll have no idea anything is around. This also allows you to just BS and tell a random player they heard something. They'll think they made their listen check when really, you didn't even figure it up. I'm constantly rolling my dice behind my screen so the players never know if I'm rolling for something serious, rolling just to fool them into thinking I'm rolling for something serious, or I'm fidgeting  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> This won't work if you roll in the open every time, but then I don't do that and this is one reason why I don't.</blockquote>