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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 477376" data-attributes="member: 1465">I almost always roll these Listen and Spot checks by myself, and I don't tell the players that I was rolling such a check. And usually I roll once for all the party (using their best modifier), unless it is important to know who has succeeded and who not.For example, to notice a noise in the next room (not actively putting the ear to the door) or coming from a side corridor, I roll secretely one single check for all the party: it is enough for 1 PC to hear the sound, he will surely inform the rest of the party. An exception may be if there is an NPC in the party, who may require his own separate roll (it's not obvious he intends to inform the others, maybe he's a traitor).If a PC later puts the ear against the door to actively try to better get which sound it was, he declares the will to do another Listen check. Still I usually hide the result.A typical situation when instead I let them roll for themselves (one roll each PC) is the ambush: I have already decided that the foes are attacking, there's no need to keep the result secret - next second the battle starts <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> - and the check is needed only to decide who gets to act in the surprise round and who not.I hope this was useful <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 477376, member: 1465"] I almost always roll these Listen and Spot checks by myself, and I don't tell the players that I was rolling such a check. And usually I roll once for all the party (using their best modifier), unless it is important to know who has succeeded and who not. For example, to notice a noise in the next room (not actively putting the ear to the door) or coming from a side corridor, I roll secretely one single check for all the party: it is enough for 1 PC to hear the sound, he will surely inform the rest of the party. An exception may be if there is an NPC in the party, who may require his own separate roll (it's not obvious he intends to inform the others, maybe he's a traitor). If a PC later puts the ear against the door to actively try to better get which sound it was, he declares the will to do another Listen check. Still I usually hide the result. A typical situation when instead I let them roll for themselves (one roll each PC) is the ambush: I have already decided that the foes are attacking, there's no need to keep the result secret - next second the battle starts :) - and the check is needed only to decide who gets to act in the surprise round and who not. I hope this was useful :) [/QUOTE]

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