Seriously check the dnd errata before claiming someone is wrong

I don't understand why you think that investiagtion is telepathy. It's a form of communication. If a painting has a secret little button on one side of the frame, you don't look at it or smell it. You investigate the painting, systematically going around the edges, deducing from what context clues you have where there might be a compartment, methodically search the thing. My issue is that Perception as a skill is representing seeing, hearing and smelling. To find a hidden lever, one needs to search for it. The breeze would be perception. It might inform you of the existence of the door. But to actually find the lever, you need to do "detective work" in a sense. Connect the dots, as in "if there is a door here, several connections could be made to this bookshelf. Considering the size of the door and the place we are in, one might come to the conclusion that the lever..." Actually finding things involves smarts, not perception. If you lose something, do you just sniff around until you find it again? No, you go "Where did I last have it?" or "Where would it make sense that I left it?" This is you going about searching systematically and with method. If you just turn everything upside down until you find it randomly, then yeah, sure, go with perception.

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