Mercutio01
First Post
Why? Why wouldn't the smart guy know where to look intuitively and do as well (or better) finding traps than the guy who just has good eyesight? If anything, I'd argue that looking for traps should use both stats in some fashion. Knowing where to look is just as important as being able to see.The less time you have to spend the more likely you are to be using Wisdom.
If you're spending 6 seconds to determine whether or not there is a trap, or your just advancing the party cautiously and putting the Rogue in the front of the marching order he's making a Wisdom Check for traps.
I'm also not sure why intuition is grouped under Wisdom. Thinking about it this on a Myers-Briggs assessment, Intuition is opposite of Sensing, one being more of an intellectual with abstract hunches and intelligent guesses and the other being more reliant on senses and concrete realities. I mean, yeah that's really parsing it through the weeds a lot, but in some respects I still think 3Es breaking up of trap-finding as Intelligence from spotting as Wisdom makes sense, time constraints or not.
But really, it's a combination of both knowing where to look (Intelligence) and awareness (Wisdom) that allows someone to find a trap. Indiana Jones in the Last Crusade is a good example of that. He's well-read and knows there is a trap (The Breath of God) and aware of his surroundings (sees the saw blades just a half second before he gets his head cut off.