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NOTE: This skill is primarily usable with DM assistance, and as such, may be less frequently useable than hardcoded skills directly referenced by the game engine.

Sense Motive (Wis)

Check:
A successful check lets you avoid being bluffed. You can also use this skill to determine when "something is up" (that is, something odd is going on) or to assess someone's trustworthiness.
Sense Motive DCs
Task Sense Motive DC
Hunch 20
Sense enchantment 25 or 15
Discern secret message Varies

Hunch:
This use of the skill involves making a gut assessment of the social situation. You can get the feeling from another's behavior that something is wrong, such as when you're talking to an impostor. Alternatively, you can get the feeling that someone is trustworthy.

Sense Enchantment:
You can tell that someone's behavior is being influenced by an enchantment effect (by definition, a mind-affecting effect), even if that person isn't aware of it. The usual DC is 25, but if the target is dominated (see dominate person), the DC is only 15 because of the limited range of the target's activities.

Discern Secret Message:
You may use Sense Motive to detect that a hidden message is being transmitted via the Bluff skill. In this case, your Sense Motive check is opposed by the Bluff check of the character transmitting the message. For each piece of information relating to the message that you are missing, you take a -2 penalty on your Sense Motive check. If you succeed by 4 or less, you know that something hidden is being communicated, but you can't learn anything specific about its content. If you beat the DC by 5 or more, you intercept and understand the message. If you fail by 4 or less, you don't detect any hidden communication. If you fail by 5 or more, you infer some false information.

Action:
Trying to gain information with Sense Motive generally takes at least 1 minute, and you could spend a whole evening trying to get a sense of the people around you.

Try Again:
No, though you may make a Sense Motive check for each Bluff check made against you.

Special:
A ranger gains a bonus on Sense Motive checks when using this skill against a favored enemy.

If you have the Negotiator feat, you get a +2 bonus on Sense Motive checks.

Synergy:
If you have 5 or more ranks in Sense Motive, you get a +2 bonus on Diplomacy checks.

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+Search (Int)
 Check:
-A successful check lets you avoid being bluffed. You can also use this skill to determine when "something is up" (that is, something odd is going on) or to assess someone's trustworthiness.
+You generally must be within 10 feet of the object or surface to be searched. The table below gives DCs for typical tasks involving the Search skill.
-Hunch:
+See also: epic usages of Search.
-Sense Enchantment:
+Task                                                             Search DC
-You can tell that someone's behavior is being influenced by an enchantment effect (by definition, a mind-affecting effect), even if that person isn't aware of it. The usual DC is 25, but if the target is dominated (see dominate person), the DC is only 15 because of the limited range of the target's activities.
+Ransack a chest full of junk to find a certain item              10
-Discern Secret Message:
+(1) Dwarves (even if they are not rogues) can use Search to find traps built into or out of stone.
-You may use Sense Motive to detect that a hidden message is being transmitted via the Bluff skill. In this case, your Sense Motive check is opposed by the Bluff check of the character transmitting the message. For each piece of information relating to the message that you are missing, you take a -2 penalty on your Sense Motive check. If you succeed by 4 or less, you know that something hidden is being communicated, but you can't learn anything specific about its content. If you beat the DC by 5 or more, you intercept and understand the message. If you fail by 4 or less, you don't detect any hidden communication. If you fail by 5 or more, you infer some false information.
+(2) A successful search check can find a footprint or similar sign of a creature's passage, but it won't let you find or follow a trail. See the Track feat for the appropriate DC.
-Action:
+Special:
-Trying to gain information with Sense Motive generally takes at least 1 minute, and you could spend a whole evening trying to get a sense of the people around you.
+An elf has a +2 racial bonus on Search checks, and a half-elf has a +1 racial bonus. An elf (but not a half-elf) who simply passes within 5 feet of a secret or concealed door can make a Search check to find that door.
-Try Again:
+If you have the Investigator feat, you get a +2 bonus on Search checks.
-Special:
+The spells explosive runes, fire trap, glyph of warding, symbol, and teleportation circle create magic traps that a rogue can find by making a successful Search check and then can attempt to disarm by using Disable Device. Identifying the location of a snare spell has a DC of 23. Spike growth and spike stones create magic traps that can be found using Search, but against which Disable Device checks do not succeed. See the individual spell descriptions for details.
-If you have the Negotiator feat, you get a +2 bonus on Sense Motive checks.
+Active abjuration spells within 10 feet of each other for 24 hours or more create barely visible energy fluctuations. These fluctuations give you a +4 bonus on Search checks to locate such abjuration spells.
 Synergy:
-If you have 5 or more ranks in Sense Motive, you get a +2 bonus on Diplomacy checks.
+If you have 5 or more ranks in Search, you get a +2 bonus on Survival checks to find or follow tracks.

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