Search Skill
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Search represents the ability to detect details in the immediate environment. Examples include finding a hidden latch, examining a document for flaws, digging through every drawer in the room for a missing amulet, etc...
The number of successes needed is almost always up to the Storyteller's discretion. General guidelines to use:
| Successes | Observation Types |
|---|---|
| Critical Failure | Your search efforts satisfy you that there is nothing of importance |
| Failure | Your search efforts are unable to uncover anything of importance |
| 1+ | At the Storyteller's discretion, the number of successes needed to find the important items, details, or objects may vary. |
Notes to clear up common confusion:
- Perception is distinctly different from Search. Search is used to spot existing things or details in a close inspection, Perception is for detecting changes. For example if you are in a crypt with a highly concealed lever, Search is appropriate to find it, not Perception. Perception would be used to detect that moving the lever shifted a stone tile on the floor. If the movement of the stone tile wasn't perceived, it returns to a Search to find the displaced tile.