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Quote from: gog on October 12, 2019, 09:48:59 AMSchool of Hard Knocks suggests under the Awareness Skills that it takes 1 round for every 10'x10' to be examined to find a small object (p15), then it becomes a question of the difficulty and the factors effecting ( affect) it.I think that's the tricky bit - a visual scan of the room for one round with no roll should reveal all the obvious. An easy level would reveal details not immediately obvious eg contents of a pile of clothes. Some things though you need more than visual clues. It took me 5 mins to find a missing piece of paper in a pile of documents the other day that involved looking through the and handling the objects. What if there was a trap under them? Would I visually see the trigger or part of the mechanism? How about if I felt under the table? Maybe for looking only it would take me a good 5 mins to spot it but using my hand about a minute. So you can see I'm trying to generate a set of mechanics to guide decisions about how long it takes to find anything. Of course, you can stare at your 10x10 bit of corridor to the cows come home but you still won't spot the trap until you feel that false stone under your foot
School of Hard Knocks suggests under the Awareness Skills that it takes 1 round for every 10'x10' to be examined to find a small object (p15), then it becomes a question of the difficulty and the factors effecting ( affect) it.
Sorry, Gog I was being dense and thinking "School of Hard Knocks" as in real life, not a Rolemaster product. Ordering now sounds like it might be the source of the last bits of the puzzle.