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Message: <blockquote data-quote="marcelvdpol" data-source="post: 6940592" data-attributes="member: 6837387">Perception is about noticing things at a glance; you use your senses to see, hear, smell, taste etc the world around you. Traps which have telltale signs that are noticable to the senses can be spotted using perception. Note that your senses don't tell you how the trap works. Pressure plate activated traps can be spotted by a floor tile being slighly different from the surrounding plates.Investigation is used when you are trying to find the meaning of something which can be perceived by your senses. The above mentioned pressure plate can be perceived as being "odd" compared to the other floor tiles but the pressure plate itself doesnt tell what will happen if you activate it. other examples of investigation include finding information in a book (the book itself is not hidden from your senses so it doesn't rely on perception), finding a secret compartment (by knocking on the wood or stone), figuring out what will happen if you flip a switch etc. Investigation is a skill i tend to train if my character has any sort of intelligence. I do favour perception over investigation but that is mostly because wisdom saving throws are more important compared to intelligence saving throws and hence usually has a higher ability score.</blockquote>