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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RigaMortus" data-source="post: 920497" data-attributes="member: 1077">The difference here is that you KNEW there was something to be found.  You are the one that misplaced the game.Now if you Search a room for a hidden passage, but you don't really know if there is one in the room or where it would be located, you roll the die.  Whatever your result is, you would assume you gave it your best shot since you don't exactly know what you are looking for (are you looking for an out of place book on the bookshelf which activates the hidden passage, or are you looking for a lose torch holder on the wall?  You don't know).  If you roll the die and fail to find what you are looking for, then that indicates that you either missed something (rolled low) or there was nothing to be found (rolled well enough, but there really is nothing there).  But you shouldn't know which it is, otherwise it would be considered metagaming IMO (oh I rolled low, let me check again until I roll high enough that I am sure there is nothing there---  doesn't make sense, becuase you wouldn't really know if you rolled low or if there really is nothing to be found).In your example, you know there is something to be found, so of course you are going to keep Searching until you find it.</blockquote>