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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kreynolds" data-source="post: 221609" data-attributes="member: 2829">Apparently, his search and disable device skills are so good that he's beyond caring about being delicate and clever, which is perfectly understandable. After all, if you're really good at severing peoples heads in combat, why bother with anything else?I don't think this would be a good idea, as I would just take countermeasures. For instance, I've heard that some people that play spellcasters will wear a sign on their chest that reads, "Unless I state otherwise, I'm casting defensively." I don't have a problem with stuff like that because if you want to always cast defensively unless you say otherwise, I assume it is simply part of your character's personality to do so.If I ran into a house rule involving searching for traps like that, I'd probably just slap a sign on my chest that stated, "While searching for traps, I am looking for cracks in the stonework, squeeky floorboards, unusual smells, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc." Why? Because it's a pain in the butt to remember all that stuff. Say there are 30 different common signs of the existence of a trap. If I have to tell you which of those I'm searching for, and I forget just one of them, I could very well miss the entire trap.I don't think you should focus the search skill that tightly.Just my 2cp. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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