Yaarel
🇮🇱 🇺🇦 He-Mage
The UA finally distinguishes between "Perception" and "Investigation".
Perception is part of a Search Action. It applies to finding something "concealed".
Investigation is part of a Study Action. It applies to "traps and gadgetry" but also to the unrelated linguistic "cypher" and "riddles".
This correctly emphasizes how Perception applies to the senses only, not really how to interpret those sensations.
I would relocate the linguistic stuff of cyphers and riddles to History, which I have been using for all of the human sciences, relating to culture and language.
Otherwise, Investigation is something like the Engineering skill that has been missing from 5e, and responsible for gears, machinery, and traps.
Note, I have been using Nature in the sense of the four elements (solid, liquid, gas, and plasma) for physical sciences, including alchemy and material sciences, including building architecture and structures.
Perception is part of a Search Action. It applies to finding something "concealed".
Investigation is part of a Study Action. It applies to "traps and gadgetry" but also to the unrelated linguistic "cypher" and "riddles".
This correctly emphasizes how Perception applies to the senses only, not really how to interpret those sensations.
I would relocate the linguistic stuff of cyphers and riddles to History, which I have been using for all of the human sciences, relating to culture and language.
Otherwise, Investigation is something like the Engineering skill that has been missing from 5e, and responsible for gears, machinery, and traps.
Note, I have been using Nature in the sense of the four elements (solid, liquid, gas, and plasma) for physical sciences, including alchemy and material sciences, including building architecture and structures.