Watchers & Search Power Options

[Zen Shooter01]

So I was using watchers in play for the first time last night. First, is there a limit to how large an area a watcher can Search? Or how big an area any critter with the power can Search?

Second, has anyone else noticed that despite the book's claim that watchers "excel" at using Search, they suck? MAG + INT = 2 dice, on a Search (5, 10 minutes) test. I'm not very good at math, by I'm pretty sure that on the average, it will take the watcher about 80 minutes to complete a search, and with a dp of 2, the chances of glitching are pretty high.

And if you use the roll limit optional rule from pg. 58, the watcher becomes all but totally incapable of finding anything, because it gets to roll 2 dice twice trying to accumulate 5 successes.

And as far as I can tell, the size of the area to be searched doesn't matter at all to the time needed to complete the search. So never tell a watcher to search the house; tell it to search the Earth.