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[Orion]

If you are blind, can you take Astral Perception? Also, if you use Astral Perception to fire a weapon, do you negate all sight penalties except for the +2 applied for using Astral Perception.

I ask because we have a player in a game whose character is blind. He's a physical adept with Blind Fighting and Astral Perception. He centers against penalties imposed from the astral perception and even if its in total darkness, raining, or smog, he only has the +2 modifier.

Granted, I'm a little jealous cause I didnt think of this abuse of the rules first, but I keep thinking there must be a catch somewhere.

So now I'm running a game, and a friend of his has asked to make the same character in my game. While I'm going to say no just because its annoying, it would really be helpful if there is some way I can explain this as being wrong.

Any ideas?