======Search (Int)======

You can search an area for clues, hidden items, traps, and other details. Notice allows you to immediately notice things, Search allows you to pick up on details with some effort. Search works in conjunction with all accurate senses (see page 102). Sight is the only accurate sense for normal humans.

**Check:** You must be within 10 feet (one [[MMNotice Notice]] range increment) of the area. You can examine a 5-foot-by-5-foot area or a volume of goods 5 feet on a side with a single check.

A Search check can turn up things like footprints, but does not allow you to follow tracks (see [[MMSuperSenses Tracking]]).

||**Task**||**DC**||
||Ransack an area to find a certain object.||10||
||Notice a secret compartment, a simple trap, or an obscure clue.||20||
|| Find a well-hidden secret compartment or trap, or an extremely obscure clue.||25+||


	- //Finding Concealed Objects:// The DC for a Search check to find a concealed object is usually based on the [[MMStealth Stealth]] or [[MMSleightOfHand Sleight of Hand]] check of the character who hid it. The GM can assume characters with the time take 20 on their check to conceal an object.

	- //Surveillance:// You can use Search to set up surveillance of a particular area, watching from a stationary location. The DC of the subject|s [[MMStealth Stealth]] check to evade your notice is equal to the result of your Search check.

	- //Extended Searches:// Certain powers--notably [[MMESP ESP]], [[MMQuickness Quickness]], [[MMSuperSenses Super-Senses]], and [[MMSuperSpeed Super-Speed]]--greatly extend the area you can search at once. When searching for something over an extended area, use the following guidelines.

Determine the area|s approximate diameter. For each step up the [[MMExtended Extended Range Table]] (starting at 10 feet for twice the normal Search area), move the time required to search the area one step up the [[MMTimeTable Time Table]] (starting at one minute, the interval above a full round).

You can reduce the time required for an extended search by increasing the DC of the Search check: each step down the [[MMTimeTable Time Table]], to a minimum of a full round, is +5 DC. The [[MMQuickness Quickness]] power can also reduce the time for an extended search.

You can take 10 and take 20 on extended searches. Taking 20 requires 20 times the base time to search the area, and you can|t reduce the time by increasing the DC if you take 20.

**Action:** A Search check is a full-round action.

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