If you are searching for hazards most of them can't hurt you


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According to the exploration rules if you are thoroughly searching you move at no more than 10' per round. Which is taking the step action twice. According to the step action you do not trigger reactions. According to the bestiary, hazards do their thing based on reactions. So, the way the rules work you can walk across a trap door for a Drowning Pit without triggering it as long as you are taking the step action. Which is what you have to be doing if you are doing the careful search.


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"Unlike most types of movement, Stepping doesn’t trigger reactions, such as Attacks of Opportunity, based on move actions or on leaving or entering a square"

Remove the comma seperated "such as Attacks of Opportunity" and you get:

"Unlike most types of movement, Stepping doesn’t trigger reactions based on move actions or on leaving or entering a square"

I don't think there are any traps that specifically trigger from move actions or leaving or entering a specific square. For instance the trigger for a Scythe Blades trap is "The trip wire is pulled or severed."

Also the exploration tactic does not say you are allowed to carefully step while searching. You can do a normal stride 10 ft. which would make more sense since that's only a single action and gives you more actions to search.


By this logic you also can't trigger reactions with normal movement, because actually, a character who Strides is just taking the Step action five times. Being able to construct one action out of a bunch of other actions doesn't mean that you're taking all of those other actions, you're still taking the one action, which is its own discreet thing.


Yeah nah mate, that's a limited Stride, not two Steps.

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