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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6727327" data-attributes="member: 6701872">For me, the separation of the skills of Investigation and Perception is simple:Perception is used if the check's purpose is to resolve whether you can or cannot perceive something. Can you hear what they are talking about? Do you see any small scratches on the floor or walls? Do you smell that? and so forth.Investigation is used if the check's purpose is to resolve the meaning of things which you can perceive. You overhear a conversation between two people that seemed innocuous, can you discern enough of the code they were speaking in to know the true topic of conversation? Are those scratches on the wall incidental, or evidence of a secret door? What is the significance of the flowery smell in this room? and so on.There artificially appears to be some overlap because a similar result might be reached with both skills, such as finding something hidden in an office, but the methods differ (perception would rely open actually looking at everything/everywhere from different angles and hoping to spot the hidden thing while doing so, while investigation could survey the room in general and then point out the most likely hiding places - basically the difference between trying to find someone's diary by pouring all their drawers onto the floor, emptying their bookshelves, and trashing their closet, only to flip their bed and finally find it under the mattress... or walking into the room, seeing what sort of person lives in the room based on the decor/state of the room, and then going straight to the under the mattress hiding spot because it seems the most probable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6727327, member: 6701872"] For me, the separation of the skills of Investigation and Perception is simple: Perception is used if the check's purpose is to resolve whether you can or cannot perceive something. Can you hear what they are talking about? Do you see any small scratches on the floor or walls? Do you smell that? and so forth. Investigation is used if the check's purpose is to resolve the meaning of things which you can perceive. You overhear a conversation between two people that seemed innocuous, can you discern enough of the code they were speaking in to know the true topic of conversation? Are those scratches on the wall incidental, or evidence of a secret door? What is the significance of the flowery smell in this room? and so on. There artificially appears to be some overlap because a similar result might be reached with both skills, such as finding something hidden in an office, but the methods differ (perception would rely open actually looking at everything/everywhere from different angles and hoping to spot the hidden thing while doing so, while investigation could survey the room in general and then point out the most likely hiding places - basically the difference between trying to find someone's diary by pouring all their drawers onto the floor, emptying their bookshelves, and trashing their closet, only to flip their bed and finally find it under the mattress... or walking into the room, seeing what sort of person lives in the room based on the decor/state of the room, and then going straight to the under the mattress hiding spot because it seems the most probable. [/QUOTE]

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