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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6970710" data-attributes="member: 7006">The only possibly helpful solution I can give is to how to reduce the power of Perception as a skill:Perception only applies to finding living creatures that can move around and are Hiding.Investigation applies to finding all inanimate hidden things, like secret doors and traps.People who are trying to Hide have to mask not only their location based upon sight, but also their sounds, their scents, any indications they have left behind like tracks and such.  And all of that tends to be at a distance.  The person is "out there" somewhere, and you just get a sense of noticing where they might be.  And becoming good at noticing those people is different than being good at noticing slight differences in how things look.  Finding a secret door means getting right up close and noticing small thin gaps in the wood or stone, noticing slight color differences, slight texture differences, extremely slight changes in air movement.  There's no "sixth sense" about finding secret doors like there is finding people hiding out in the wild.  Instead, it's just very careful, slow investigation of the ever-so-slight clues that are right there in front of you that you can barely see.  Getting on your hands and knees and finding where that thin tripwire is.  Tapping the ground and hearing the hollow ring that comes from having nothing underneath it indicating a pit. If you treat finding Hidden creatures and secret doors/traps as two different skills to be good at (which I do)... Perception as the uber-skill gets cut down in half.</blockquote>

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