Secret Rolls

[Galithar]

Nobody. Hence the use of "if".

That does nothing to change the fact that they THINK there is something and have reason to believe they missed it. The if doesn't change the problem, though it changes my response slightly that you are hanging on the if.

The point of the secret roll is to not give them the chance to make that assumption. If there's nothing there the result could be they continue to search thinking 'I just missed it from a bad roll'. Now you can tell them 'no move on you only get one check' but that's kinda taking agency away from them. Now this interacts with some systems 'don't roll if there's nothing interesting to come of it' but I'm keeping this system agnostic as much as possible and not all systems say that.

It matters less when there really isn't anything there, but it matters greatly when there is something. They rolled a 1 and then decide 'I'm going to take 45 minutes to fully investigate every inch of this room'