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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 6727351" data-attributes="member: 97077">In my game, the DM calls for an Intelligence (Investigation) check when a player describes his or her character as trying to deduce what a particular clue means and the DM finds that the attempt at deduction has an uncertain outcome.[ATTACH]71013[/ATTACH]Red Creek Rufus, a beastmaster ranger, explores the ruins of a citadel once held by elves that venerated dragons.Player: Red Creek Rufus holds his torch firmly and enters the corridor.DM: The air is stale in this 20-foot-long corridor, which leads to another closed stone door in front of which the ubiquitous rubble of this ruin has piled. A hallway leads north but stops short in ruin. An arrow, larger than one that a human would loose from a bow is lodged into the wall next to the door you opened. What do you do?Player: I pull that arrow out of the wall and examine it.DM: The arrow is old and splintered from its age and the impact. Its tip is stained black.Player: Hmm, elves wouldn't use an arrow this large. This stain might be poison. I try to deduce from what or where this arrow might have come, drawing upon years in the wilds hunting with bow and arrow.DM (figuring the outcome is uncertain): You're no slouch with a bow, that's for sure. Let's see a DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) check.Player: Okay. *rolls* 12.DM: Given its downward angle when it was lodged in the wall, it appears to have been loosed from the ceiling of the far wall. What do you do?Player: This sounds like a trap. I look around the immediate area for any tripwires, pressure plates, or wires, staying generally exactly where I'm standing to be safe for now.DM (figuring the outcome is uncertain): Let's see a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check.Player: *rolls* 15, on the money.DM: There are variations in the mortar and stone of the floor in the middle portion of the corridor compared to the surrounding floor - you were right to expect pressure plates.Player: Hmm. that's about a 10-foot-square area. I could jump if it I gave it a good run, but leaping into rubble might be tricky...</blockquote>

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