If if is done manually, it is an active check. If it happens automatically, it is a passive check. That is the full determination of those labels. Anything said to try to explain your way out of calling something that happened automatically "passive" is blatant falsehood, no matter who it comes from, devs and WotC included. If you don't want it to be called a passive check, then it needs the player to manually initiate it with an intentionally used action.
Last edited by The Old Soul; 06/03/21 05:48 AM.
