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<blockquote data-quote="Kobold Boots" data-source="post: 7502596" data-attributes="member: 92239">The definition of passive is &quot;not necessarily paying direct attention&quot;.The definition of active is &quot;looking for something&quot;If a player has a high passive perception, he or she is very observant.&nbsp; If I have a DC of 11 for something noticeable, and I have a player with a passive perception of 12, I'm going to give them what they'd notice.&nbsp; In that same scenario if I have the same player roll active perception and he rolls at 6, I'm giving him the benefit of his passive score because it makes sense to do so.&nbsp; If he or she rolls a 19, there might be something more, there may not.&nbsp; However, there is no point of having passive perception in the game if you're forcing a hard check to notice something lower than its floor.Might be opinion, may not be.&nbsp; That's my interpretation given the Crawford post provided that I as a DM allow passive perception in the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kobold Boots, post: 7502596, member: 92239"] The definition of passive is "not necessarily paying direct attention". The definition of active is "looking for something" If a player has a high passive perception, he or she is very observant. If I have a DC of 11 for something noticeable, and I have a player with a passive perception of 12, I'm going to give them what they'd notice. In that same scenario if I have the same player roll active perception and he rolls at 6, I'm giving him the benefit of his passive score because it makes sense to do so. If he or she rolls a 19, there might be something more, there may not. However, there is no point of having passive perception in the game if you're forcing a hard check to notice something lower than its floor. Might be opinion, may not be. That's my interpretation given the Crawford post provided that I as a DM allow passive perception in the game. [/QUOTE]

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