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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7402950" data-attributes="member: 996">It is a little tricky.&nbsp; It's not too easy an escape clause unless the roll is too easy, so it depends on balancing the resolution mechanic.&nbsp; In contrast, if a DM is faced with a PC who's 'too good' at finding secret doors, he just stops placing secret doors - they're just doors at that point, anyway.&nbsp; There's no likelihood of finding lots of secret doors in every wall, because there's no impetus to search every wall for a secret door.&nbsp; It's not like traditional play, where the player has to guess right at where a secret door may be (for instance, by completing a map of the dungeon and noting 'holes' where a room might be), before the character's skill at finding secret doors can come into play.What doesn't seem right is that it's a Schrodinger's Secret Door - it both exists and does not exist until it's found (or conclusively established not to exist, somehow, I suppose).&nbsp; &nbsp;It sure feels that way, sometimes.&nbsp; ;P</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7402950, member: 996"] It is a little tricky. It's not too easy an escape clause unless the roll is too easy, so it depends on balancing the resolution mechanic. In contrast, if a DM is faced with a PC who's 'too good' at finding secret doors, he just stops placing secret doors - they're just doors at that point, anyway. There's no likelihood of finding lots of secret doors in every wall, because there's no impetus to search every wall for a secret door. It's not like traditional play, where the player has to guess right at where a secret door may be (for instance, by completing a map of the dungeon and noting 'holes' where a room might be), before the character's skill at finding secret doors can come into play. What doesn't seem right is that it's a Schrodinger's Secret Door - it both exists and does not exist until it's found (or conclusively established not to exist, somehow, I suppose). It sure feels that way, sometimes. ;P [/QUOTE]

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