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Author: crazysamaritan

Jul 20th 2014 at 12:28:06 PM

No, AlwaysCheckBehindTheChair is not limited to video games.

Web Comics
At the beginning of Darths & Droids, Jim and Ben's very first act of going Off the Rails involved searching a room for items rather than waiting for the negotiators to arrive. As punishment, the GM retroactively decided that this action was responsible for the Trade Federation attacking them.
In this Gunshow comic, http://gunshowcomic.com/352, you can get a dollar by finding the duck hidden behind a plant in your hotel.
Roleplaying Games
The Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming notes, in explicit detail, that the munchkin method of searching a dungeon does not only restrict itself to looking behind chairs, but actually breaking apart the chair to search for loot and/or magical items inside. As well as destroying all other furniture, breaking open the floor, walls and ceiling, as well as searching each monster corpse to the point of running their corpse through a sieve. After looting potentially valuable organs, of course.