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glossary term

Search

When you take the Search action, you make a Wisdom check to discern something that isn’t obvious. The Search table suggests which skills are applicable when you take this action, depending on what you’re trying to detect.

Search

Skill Thing to Detect
Insight Creature’s state of mind
Medicine Creature’s ailment or cause of death
Perception Concealed creature or object
Survival Tracks or food

Source · SRD 5.2.1 · page 187