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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9000267" data-attributes="member: 2209">Yes.Thief ability page B8:"Find or Remove Traps is a double ability. The thief has the listed chance of finding a trap (if there is one) and the same chance (if the trap is found) of removing it. Either attempt may only be tried once per trap."The chances were 10% at 1st level, 15% at 2nd level, and 20% at 3rd level.Also Dwarves had it as an explicit ability as well. Page B9:"They are expert miners and are able to find slanting passages, traps, shifting walls, and new construction one-third of the time (a roll of 1 or 2 on Id6) when looking for them."Any character can mechanically check for traps in B/X. Page B22 under traps:"Any character has a 1 in 6 chance of finding a trap when searching for one in the correct area. Any dwarf has a 2 in 6 chance. (This does not apply to magical traps, such as a sleep trap.) Checking a specific area for a trap will take one full turn. The DM should only check for finding a trap if a player says that the character is searching for one. Each character may only check once to find each trap."As a player if you were just looking under the beginning section with the player stuff you could easily miss that there is a mechanic for all players to search with a d6 roll.Different specifics on the mechanics for B/X. The thief description of the remove traps ability does say the removing is limited to small traps though. P. B10:"A thief's training includes learning how to pick pockets, climb steep surfaces, move silently, hide in shadows, open locks (with a set of lockpicks or burglar's tools), remove small traps (such as poisoned needles), and how to hear noises better than other humans."The specifics of how thief abilities work vary in each edition. The specific language of the edition you are using makes a difference.</blockquote>

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