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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 2061837" data-attributes="member: 24969"><p>I'd let them take 20 but there's no way I'd let them get away with some of the time scales that have been mentioned here. 2 minutes per square? Whatever. Maybe for a featureless stone corridor that has no seams, blocks or morter. Taking 20 to me means doing everything you can think of to search in that room. That means picking every single item up, looking it over, and putting it off to once side that has already been seaarched and continuing on. If there is many things to look at in the room it's going to take a long time. All furniture will have to be moved. All cabinets and bookcases emptied, inspected, and moved if possible. Floorboards pulled up. Stones pried out. Etc. that's going to take time. In a storeroom or library, hours or days will have to be spent to inspect everything. So, my solution for this is to say that each successive search would take more time as in each search, they're going to have to get more and more detailed which is going to take more and more time. The first search roll might only take a round ( and I doubt I'd ever give them that time scale for anything larger or more complex than an unclutered tabletop). The second would probably take a minute in just stopping and looking around for places they might have missed and thinking about the problem. To take 20 would take longer than 20 times their initial attempt in something like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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