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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrankTrollman" data-source="post: 1159609" data-attributes="member: 14225">That's not what the rules say, though.In the rules, when you aare sneaking past a guard, you need to make a Move Silently check to avoid being heard, and a Hide check to avoid being seen. if you roll really low on either check, one of the guards is probably going to detect you (either by seeing or hearing you), and the alarm will be raised.It sounds like you've made some house rules to get around that problem - and made it into a single roll to avoid detection (with the relevent roll being determined by what you are doing). But that simply reinforces Monte Cook's point that you shouldn't be making 2 rolls every time you attempt to slip past a guard.And the most streamlined way to avoid making two rolls is to only have one skill.Now the Search/Spot thing is a whole different can-of-worms. I think that most of the ways Search is different from Spot should be folded into Disable Device - there's really no reason to be making two checks there when almost all devices have the same DCs to find and disable and you can take 20 on the Search skill. So you could fold most of Search into Spot (and/or Wilderness Lore) - but you'd have to expand Disable Device a bit to take up the remaining slack.-Frank</blockquote>