So to find the page we wanted we needed to look up the index, look up a page, read three pages before realizing that wasn't what we want, go back to the index, then back to another page. So we look up Perception, 178: Ah! That's it!.The closest to listening in there is the Deafened condition. We look that up in the book and find three pages of conditions. What do I mean? Take this example, where we want to look up listening at a door:
And as much respect as we have for the creators of each edition, the index of the Fifth Edition Player's Handbook is just terrible. Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Revised Index
