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@badbaron @Psybermagi few notes with regards to perception checks in this game

1. I am aware of your passive perception. Any time I believe your PC stopped with 5 feet of a hidden object/door I will narrate your PC discovering it. Zean just found the secret door that way, you don't need to describe looking for things with every your step in this huge dungeon.

2. I do not require perception check to spot things/objects that are not hidden. If there is a leaver or a small button I will describe it to you first time I describe a room/place.

3. If you guess there should be a secret door/object somewhere feel free to pick a 5x5 feet area and announce investing your PC time and nerves into trying to figure out of there is a mechanism to interact with that hidden object. There is a penalty for doing it too often though,
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If it was not clear this will explain how to read the map

We can't post until Nyx tells us what there is to see. We still need a way to get in and killing the zombies still seems too obvious.

By default I assume PCs are sharing things as this with the party. If any PC has such a personality as to keep things they discover in secret (even if party knows they did the discovery) - please let me know. I will be posting private to that particular player.

As a DM I am doing my best to choose when PC has some reason to not share knowledge/discovery and post private to that player. I do that also if you may not have enough time to share (i.e. during combat) or the information is just too complicated and a question of interpretation.

P.S. I want this game to move forward as fast as possible without players waiting for each other. We have a huge amount of content to still cover in this game.

@Pedrop as you are new to 5e I'd like to make sure you realize "anyone capable of turning" refer to cleric abilityYour PC would know he has the ability

I want players to describe their PC actions, not call out skill names. More over I assume your PCs "look" at each object in each room. I will ask PCs to roll when I see it relevant. I will ask players to roll for "recall" information when I see fit, but more often that not I will share that info for free.

I know some DMs have a practice to swamp players with environment and history details whenever a player decide to roll a dice. Some even use A.I. to create paragraphs of cool looking text. I try to only provide players with information from the book (ToA). I'm always happy to try to explain how I interpret that information if it is not clear from description, but it will require no ability check. I seldom even try to sketch a picture to explain better.

I've described here how I use passive perception. In this game it will be helpful with pit traps and other well hidden dangers. Exception for hidden doors are described there as well.

There is probably some misunderstanding here, let me try to sketch the thing

We're all still with you. Personally, I'm having a hard time finding my feet in this character witch is my fault for always looking for something new. With little experience playing clerics and no introduction scenario to get used to the character's skills, I'm spending a lot of time searching the character sheet which seems to be getting in the way of my actually thinking.

I did play the character in one intro scenario with a different group so at least I have some idea of her personality but that doesn't seem terribly key to survival here. On the good side, my compatriots seem to be smarter and I am a low intelligence character so it's not inappropriate to be sort of clueless until my wisdom starts to kick in and I start reacting more instinctually.

Actually, regarding the secret things and perception. Having a PC with PP 23 I have following proposal. Whenever I describe a room I will wait for Tante Lude to announce "I will take tome to scan whole room for hidden things"

I will as a result:
- calculate time spend on this proportional to room size
- automatically reveal any secret doors or other secret mechanisms that is possible to detect with perception
- automatically trigger any trigger that happens on touch/on stepping/etc. that can't be discovered by perception

P.S. I did actually assumed that Tante Lude did this on the room with chariot, but not in the room with alcove, because she specifically used telekinesis and did not enter the room.

What do you all think

Well, it's only passive so since I was looking into the room, I don't actually notice as much as if my attention was elsewhere. That strikes me as strange but it happens, lol.

OK I believe I got it. Let's move story forward, but I want co clarify this:
It may not be enough for you to declare "look" 10+ feet away from you. A secret means you can't see it by looking or at least it is really hard to.

Did I miss to narrate any action by any PC? I'm waiting for more actions on your side. If there in none by the end of the week I'm going to retire this game due to lack of player activity