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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CullAfulMoshuN" data-source="post: 38055" data-attributes="member: 1270">Sorry to hyjack your thread, but a similar question was argued IMC a couple of weeks ago.  The PCs were doing a breakin and one wanted to take 20 to search for traps.  I ruled that he couldn't, but I believe he still disagrees.What are your opinions on this?  There is no immediate consequence for failure, but there is the implied consequence that they don't believe the trap is there.  He believed he could because he wanted to be sure, but I thought he was meta gaming - if the PC failed his search check the first time then he would believe there was nothing there, so way keep looking?I conceeded on allowing for taking 10 (not that it would normally help) because that represents taking your time to look, rather than retrying.Thoughs?</blockquote>