New Posts For Thread: When will the monsters hear the marching party?http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28049961/When_will_the_monsters_hear_the_marching_partyI've been thinking lately of making perception as real as possible and I began to think about my player's characters moving around the catacombs they are currently in. No one is rolling a stealth checks, they are simply in a marching order and justI'm thinking the lowest passive stealth will work for me. I actually impliments this into my game Saturday and it really gave the group an incentive to use their stealthy assassin to scout ahead a bit at times. When it comes to averaging, it doesn'http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28049961/When_will_the_monsters_hear_the_marching_party?post_id=503456025#503456025I'm thinking the lowest passive stealth will work for me. I actually impliments this into my game Saturday and it really gave the group an incentive to use their stealthy assassin to scout ahead a bit at times. When it comes to averaging, it doesn'Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:42:08 -0500> Use their passive Stealth scores for a basic idea, and then assign the party> Stealth score as the lowest (not the average) number. Given that 4E emphasizes group action rather than "worst of...", I'd say use the average. If you want to be a littlhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28049961/When_will_the_monsters_hear_the_marching_party?post_id=503371041#503371041> Use their passive Stealth scores for a basic idea, and then assign the party> Stealth score as the lowest (not the average) number. Given that 4E emphasizes group action rather than "worst of...", I'd say use the average. If you want to be a littlSat, 23 Jul 2011 23:53:24 -0500There are no actual rules for this, so the DM will have to adjudicate it on his own. However, the paradigm for D&D (especially 4e) is that each encounter is a isolated scenario with no interaction between them, and that the starting conditions are mohttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28049961/When_will_the_monsters_hear_the_marching_party?post_id=503242941#503242941There are no actual rules for this, so the DM will have to adjudicate it on his own. However, the paradigm for D&D (especially 4e) is that each encounter is a isolated scenario with no interaction between them, and that the starting conditions are moFri, 22 Jul 2011 15:01:38 -0500Ideas♦ People walking around in a hostile environment try to be as quiet as possible (unless your PCs are actually RPing they are singing Dwarven drinking sounds at the top of their lungs of course .. chances are they are not though ;) Use thehttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28049961/When_will_the_monsters_hear_the_marching_party?post_id=503210949#503210949Ideas♦ People walking around in a hostile environment try to be as quiet as possible (unless your PCs are actually RPing they are singing Dwarven drinking sounds at the top of their lungs of course .. chances are they are not though ;) Use theFri, 22 Jul 2011 09:40:35 -0500Enemies would be aware of someone tromping in their dungeon roughly after first combat (clash of swords carries really deep in narrow stone tunnels), so no surprise rounds for anyone unless players start stealthing by (monsters will still know someonhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28049961/When_will_the_monsters_hear_the_marching_party?post_id=503209789#503209789Enemies would be aware of someone tromping in their dungeon roughly after first combat (clash of swords carries really deep in narrow stone tunnels), so no surprise rounds for anyone unless players start stealthing by (monsters will still know someonFri, 22 Jul 2011 09:29:11 -0500