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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 927868" data-attributes="member: 11581">I think oftentimes, the use of "Search" for everything is misused. I personally rule that the search skill is used for when the character in question is searching for something of unspecified location and unspecified nature. If the character has fallen back on his search skill, he doesn't know what he's looking for, or even what the plausible location of it is.If I'm looking for a secret door, I don't say "I search the room for secret doors". I say things like, "I yank the rug off the floor. Anything there?". This isn't really a search check. A big dumb fighter could do this. If there's something under that rug, I've now found it. If there's nothing there, then I've just wasted a round yanking a rug off the floor. Search is one of those things you pull out when you've exhausted all of the obvious leads for manipulating anything apparent, and are now resorting to examination of what appears to be empty pieces of wall.</blockquote>