Originally Posted by CamKitty
It's a bit odd though. Would be extremely frustrating to skip the rogue checking the room because the wizard was one step in the wrong direction.

"Nope, for some reason that was your party's check"

That would be an active check dynamic, not a passive check dynamic.
And a group would presumably have the rogue (or perchance the monk/druid who likely have more wisdom and therefor possibly better perception) do the active check in the first place, not the wizard. It would then be the wizard who doesn't look at the rouge's bad roll and say "I want to do it too"

The passive check dynamic is when everybody walks into the room, nobody asks to roll, the dm either does hidden roles or just checks the passive stat of every party member, and if nobody passes nobody gets given *any* information. They don't know they missed something. If the wizard fails and the rogue passes the rogue gets told about the trap, but the group doesn't know the dm checked that the wizard failed first, the rogue could have been first.