billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him)
Yet i recall at least a few folks claiming using the search skill being a purely visual endeavor and that seaching shouldn't trigger touch sensitive traps.
That depends on where you're searching and what you're searching for. If you're searching for traps, you can expect a certain kind of caution with how things are manipulated.
But I wouldn't really ever assume that searching was purely a visual endeavor. A touch might notice the unusual tension on a door. A bit of poison on a spring-loaded blade might have a slight odor. The specifics of how the search check turned up the trap is something to be narrated by the DM and need not be planned in advance by the player, though a shrewd player coming up with a good search methodology for particular kinds of traps may get the oft-mentioned +2 circumstance bonus from time to time.