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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6500734" data-attributes="member: 7006">Well, just because you find the prospect dull as all get out doesn't mean it's true for everyone else though.  Heck, you could make the same argument about the cleric way back when, that someone *had* to be one in order to have the healing spells (as that was the optimal choice for your party)... and yet we've seen many folks here on the boards say quite plainly that they enjoy being the healer.  So a job that I think most people wished upon an NPC that traveled with the party so that no one else in the group had to actually play it... is one that some tables embrace.  Same can be said of the searching thief.  We might find the idea of describing what we're doing and looking for every 10 feet (and then rolling for results) to be the highest form of tedium... but I'm pretty sure we'd find a table and a thief player that loves it.  Probably one that is a fan (and constant player) of the OSR if I had to guess.I ain't saying there's a *lot* of them... only that odds-on they do in fact exist.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>