 Adept's Improved Senses, Which one to accept? |
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 Oct 11 2005, 09:02 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 358 Joined: 12-May 05 From: The nearest UV host near you... Member No.: 7,390  |
Can the Adept's Improved Senses power mimic Vision Enhancement? If so, at what cost? .25 per levels?
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Oct 11 2005, 09:03 PM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,587 Joined: 25-January 05 From: Berkeley, CA Member No.: 7,014 |
They can do much much better than that, using the Enhanced Perception power along with Improved Ability: Perception.
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Oct 11 2005, 09:06 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,420 Joined: 30-October 03 Member No.: 5,776 |
Sure they can mimic vision enhancement, why not? Though, like hahnsoo said, it would be kind of stupid since the Enhanced Perception power and Improved Ability: Perception power only costs .25 per level and both help all perception tests, not just visual perception tests.
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Oct 11 2005, 09:12 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 358 Joined: 12-May 05 From: The nearest UV host near you... Member No.: 7,390 |
Ooops... I meant Vision Magnification (the thing used to reduce the distance of the target).
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Oct 11 2005, 09:15 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Unless they've changed the ruling, an adept's Sense Enhancement power is automatically rated at max possible.
The cybernetic Select Sound Filter (in SR 3) was rated 1 - 5. The adept power is automatically rated at 5. Vision Enhancement, in my opinion, is no different and if the adept selects it, automatically gets it at the max possible rating, in this case 3. So the adept can spend .5 and get +3 dice to Visual and +3 audio checks (.25 a piece for the Sense Enhancements) or +2 dice to all Perception checks (.25 a piece for Enhanced Perception). -Siege Edit: Same thing with Vision Mag - max possible rating. 8) |
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Oct 11 2005, 09:16 PM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,587 Joined: 25-January 05 From: Berkeley, CA Member No.: 7,014 |
That modification would only cost 0.25 Power Points. There are no "levels" of Vision Magnification in SR4. If you have it, you can use a Simple Action to Take Aim to reduce your range penalty to zero (instead of getting +1 die). |
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Oct 11 2005, 09:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 358 Joined: 12-May 05 From: The nearest UV host near you... Member No.: 7,390 |
Thank you very much ^_^
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Oct 11 2005, 11:09 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,665 Joined: 26-April 03 From: Sweden Member No.: 4,516 |
Unless of course you are at your maximum in that power and wants a little extra edge... Near useless though, but still ;) |
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Oct 11 2005, 11:51 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263 |
They didn't put anything into the SR4 BBB explaining it. So ya, it'll have to wait for an FAQ to clarify it...again. :( P.S. However Vision Magnification no longer has different ratings, so that one is clear enough (yuck, yuck, yuck :wobble: ). |
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