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<blockquote data-quote="king_ghidorah" data-source="post: 4023538" data-attributes="member: 18404">I have to support Reynard here. I have been playing for 26 years, and I did have 1st edition groups where we talked about how we searched for traps and secret doors, perhaps influenced by the fact that some things (like the example of play in the DMG) did have this as en example. We didn't ask for a drawing of the trap or the door mechanism, but we did talk about where we searched and how. &quot;I think that based on where we have been, that wall seems like it might have a secret door. I tap along the wall about waist height with the pommel of my dagger, listening for hollow sounds,&quot; or &quot;I check the area around the handles of the chest for needles, look at the hinges to see if anything looks shady, and tap on the chest gently to see if anything sounds strange&quot; might have come from players at my table back in the 1st edition days.Whether that was a better way to play or not is a matter of taste, but there were definitely groups that played that way before and I'm sure ones that do still.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="king_ghidorah, post: 4023538, member: 18404"] I have to support Reynard here. I have been playing for 26 years, and I did have 1st edition groups where we talked about how we searched for traps and secret doors, perhaps influenced by the fact that some things (like the example of play in the DMG) did have this as en example. We didn't ask for a drawing of the trap or the door mechanism, but we did talk about where we searched and how. "I think that based on where we have been, that wall seems like it might have a secret door. I tap along the wall about waist height with the pommel of my dagger, listening for hollow sounds," or "I check the area around the handles of the chest for needles, look at the hinges to see if anything looks shady, and tap on the chest gently to see if anything sounds strange" might have come from players at my table back in the 1st edition days. Whether that was a better way to play or not is a matter of taste, but there were definitely groups that played that way before and I'm sure ones that do still. [/QUOTE]

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