This is admittedly not that big of a deal I guess but it drives me nuts how often modern games describe themselves like: a zelda-esque soulsborne roguelike metroidvania- or something equally indecipherable to anyone outside of the entrenched Gamer demographic. I am thoroughly "search action"-pilled...we really gotta use words better!

  • SSJ2Marx
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    3 months ago

    When you take the Search action, you devote your attention to finding something. Depending on the nature of your search, the GM might have you make a Wisdom (Perception) check or an Intelligence (Investigation) check.

    From experience, most players and DMs interpret this wildly differently, although I can't exactly blame them because in 5th edition the rules for perception, hiding, invisibility, and searching are all split up and located in different parts of the book.