dcollins
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CRGreathouse said:To those who would disallow it - what would you call carefuly looking over very small areas at a time in search of a person?
I would certainly disallow it in the case given by the original poster, namely "in the night when a PC is at guard protecting and watching the sleeping PCs".
If the PC in question is (a) not aware that there are any enemies around in the first place, and (b) "at guard/in the night", and presumably not marching around in the brush in the pitch darkness alone, then allowing a "Search" check would in fact be abusive, I think.