This thread will include explanations and/or clarifications of rules straight from the GURPS Line Editor. I'll add them as needed, instead of dumping all the info at the same time. If you have suggestions, please post them in the OOC thread and direct me to somewhere I can verify that Sean "Kromm" Punch actually has said/posted what you want me to include.

If you, in the same vein, have rules questions, please post them in the OOC thread too. If I have Line Editor answers, I'll provide those.

Finding Things
"Rooms are so big that you need separate skills for different things (on top of basic Perception for things sitting out in the open):

* Architecture for hidden features of the room itself.
* Carpentry to notice something odd with the woodwork.
* Criminology to find macroscopic evidence left behind by a criminal.
* Electrician to spot something strange about the lights or wiring.
* Forensics to discover traces of blood, explosives, fibers, etc.
* Masonry to identify unusual stonework.
* Observation to "case the joint."
* Tracking to pick up on footprints on the floor.
* Traps for traps and secret doors.

These do overlap some, of course. The GM could allow a single Detective! roll for all of it, I suppose, but as that skill implies, this would be cinematic. Real detectives ask forensic scientists, firemen, the locksmith, etc. to take a look for a good reason. A detective might have Criminology and Observation, and maybe Tracking (if he works outdoors a lot) or Forensics (if he works in a lab some of the time). He would have Search, but for patting down suspects, not for poking in cupboards. They're not really closely related."

For this campaign, we use AW instead of Per in the first line.
For Criminology, the macroscopic evidence could have been left by anyone.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:48, Fri 08 Dec 2023.