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<blockquote data-quote="Volund" data-source="post: 7581056" data-attributes="member: 6872597"><p>I have the opposite problem in the game I DM. In a party of six 4th level characters the highest passive perception is 12. Three PC's have Perception proficiency paired with a wisdom score of 10. One PC has a wisdom of 14 but isn't proficient in Perception. As a group they are much better at Arcana/History/Investigation/Religion skills. They're always pushing me to use Investigation to find traps and secret doors and I'm always pushing back that they have to notice something before they can investigate it. Perception lets you walk around with a broad awareness until something unusual grabs your attention. Investigation is putting your focus on a single thing and giving it all your attention. Using investigation to find traps and secret doors would require a focused examination of every surface: good lighting, brushing off dust, poking and probing, listening, moving slowly, etc. Certainly possible, but time consuming.</p><p></p><p>The first 30 seconds of this famous scene show how I interpret PC's using Wisdom and Intelligence to find traps. The room looks safe but Indiana Jones's gut instinct tells him it's not, he warns his partner, and his eyes lock onto something on the floor (Wisdom). He takes his time, checks an odd patch of dirt on the floor, moves the dirt, discovers a block of stone, uses a simple tool to run a test, and discovers a trap (Intelligence).</p><p></p><p>[video=youtube;mC1ikwQ5Zgc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC1ikwQ5Zgc[/video]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Volund, post: 7581056, member: 6872597"] I have the opposite problem in the game I DM. In a party of six 4th level characters the highest passive perception is 12. Three PC's have Perception proficiency paired with a wisdom score of 10. One PC has a wisdom of 14 but isn't proficient in Perception. As a group they are much better at Arcana/History/Investigation/Religion skills. They're always pushing me to use Investigation to find traps and secret doors and I'm always pushing back that they have to notice something before they can investigate it. Perception lets you walk around with a broad awareness until something unusual grabs your attention. Investigation is putting your focus on a single thing and giving it all your attention. Using investigation to find traps and secret doors would require a focused examination of every surface: good lighting, brushing off dust, poking and probing, listening, moving slowly, etc. Certainly possible, but time consuming. The first 30 seconds of this famous scene show how I interpret PC's using Wisdom and Intelligence to find traps. The room looks safe but Indiana Jones's gut instinct tells him it's not, he warns his partner, and his eyes lock onto something on the floor (Wisdom). He takes his time, checks an odd patch of dirt on the floor, moves the dirt, discovers a block of stone, uses a simple tool to run a test, and discovers a trap (Intelligence). [video=youtube;mC1ikwQ5Zgc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC1ikwQ5Zgc[/video] [/QUOTE]
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