Different people see the world differently.

I grew up around blue collar tradesmen. Most of my family have skilled trades, farm, or work in factories. Something I learned from that experience is that a plumber looks at a toilet differently than you do.

A friend’s dad was a linesman for the electric company. We’d be driving along and he would point out a transformer on a pole and tell a story about when his crew put it up in the middle of a blizzard. I wouldn’t even see it until he mentioned it.

When I describe a situation, I give different descriptions to different characters because they will see different things based on their skill set and world view.

The party comes across a camp that was recently wiped out by a large party of goblins.

The ranger will notice that the camp was set by a group skilled in woodcraft. They placed the tents where the weather would have the least effect. They had a properly dug pit latrine. The area around their cook fire was carefully cleared of any debris that might catch and create a forest fire. There, that archer was repairing the fletching on an arrow but the feathers are strange. That kind of bird doesn’t live around here and his bow is made of a wood not found in these parts either. Very strange.

The dwarf sees that their weapons are made from low quality bog iron. There are a few decent pieces among them but mostly junk.

The thief. Well, he’s tired of all this traipsing about in the woods. He’s ready for some proper city filth not all this dirt and fresh air. This fellow here though, he has a tattoo the thief saw once when he was younger. The tattoo is given to members a particularly nasty gang of murderers.

The wizard notices that this guy over here wasn’t just killing that goat for dinner, he was performing some form of augury with its entrails.

Who is doing the looking is just as important as what they are looking at.