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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1865172" data-attributes="member: 5100">Pretty much exactly the same, here.  Spot and Listen represent being open (or opening oneself up) to sights and sounds in the environment.  Search is more something that requires study or thought. As a tangent, my wife is playing an elven swashbuckler with an 8 Wis and a 16 Int, as well as no points spent in Spot, but a few in Search.  Being an elf, she's allowed to automatically search for secret doors just by passing by them.  So, I had to figure out how to explain the fact that she was able to randomly notice secret doors, while consistantly being the last to notice foes, etc.  What I finally came up with was that her character is constantly studying things around her, using her intellect to understand her surroundings.  The side effect of this is that she is so focused on the details of things that she rarely catches large things going on around her.  Very much a "can't see the forest for the trees" mentality.</blockquote>